ASHP Accredited

Program Director: Briana Kocher, PharmD, BCACP
Email: briana.kocher@wvumedicine.org
Positions: 1
Application Due: January 2, 2025
Starting Date: July 1, 2025
Estimated Stipend: $53,000 + benefits

Purpose Statement & Program Overview 

Individuals completing the Post-Graduate Year Two (PGY-2) Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program at WVU Medicine Ruby Memorial Hospitals shall be highly qualified independent providers of ambulatory care pharmacy practice. The resident shall be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team, educator of healthcare professionals and patients, be able to perform practice-related research, and be leaders in medication safety. The resident will exhibit a commitment to the profession of pharmacy and be able to develop their own personal plan for professional development. Residents will conduct their daily practice with a high level of maturity and leadership. Residents completing this program will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities in ambulatory care practice. 

The PGY-2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at WVU Medicine provides the resident with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to become a competent practitioner. The program is a twelve-month, postgraduate training experience composed of orientation, required learning experiences in ambulatory care, and elective learning experiences. Additionally, there is time devoted to research and training in the various dispensing areas of pharmacy. 

Required Learning Experiences:

  • Orientation (6 weeks) - May be shortened for a resident who completed PGY1 at WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals
  • Anticoagulation (3-4 weeks)
  • Ambulatory Pharmacy Administration - Management (4-5 weeks)
  • Internal Medicine Transitions of Care Clinc (4-5 weeks)
  • Primary Care - Internal Medicine I (4-5 weeks)
  • Primary Care - Internal Medicine II (4-5 weeks)
  • Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) (Longitudinal-9 months) - If an MUE project was completed during PGY1, resident will precept an MUE for a PGY1 ambulatory focused project
  • Discharge Pharmacy Staffing (Longitudinal-12 months)
  • Practice Advancement and Professional Development (Longitudinal-12 months)
  • Research Project (Longitudinal-12 months)
  • Teaching and Precepting (Longitudinal-12 months)

Selective Required Learning Experiences:

Will complete at least one from each category. May choose to take others as elective.

  • Gastroenterology Clinic (4-5 weeks)
  • Neurology Clinic (4-5 weeks)

Available Elective Learning Experiences: 

Other elective experiences may be available depending on resident interest and preceptor availability (Select 4).

  • Academia (4-5 weeks)
  • Endocrinology Clinic (4-5 weeks)
  • Family medicine (4-5 weeks)
  • Heart Failure Clinic (4-5 weeks)
  • Transplant (4-5 weeks)
  • Specialty Pharmacy (4-5 weeks)
  • Weight Management (4-5 weeks)

Additional learning experiences include the development and completion of practice-related research, development of oral and written communication skills through the completion of a Medication-Use Evaluation and ACPE Accredited Continuing Education Presentation, patient education, participation in various departmental committees, and practice in various pharmacy areas throughout the institution.

Pharmacy Practice Component

  • PGY2 Pharmacy Residents practice every third weekend.
  • All residents receive orientation to the pharmacy satellites prior to starting the practice component. 
  • All residents work one summer (Memorial Day, Labor Day) and one winter holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s).

Residents may opt to work additional pharmacist shifts and will be compensated at the standard pharmacist rate, including shift differential. Residents are reminded that the primary objective of the residency year relates to the residency program objectives, and achievement of these objectives should not be hindered by other activities.

PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Director

Briana Kocher, PharmD, BCACP, graduated from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in Morgantown, WV 2014. Upon graduating, she completed a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and Kroger Pharmacy in Lexington, KY. Briana currently provides pharmacy services in an outpatient internal medicine clinic.

PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Coordinator

Carrie Clutter, PharmD, BCACP, graduated from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in Morgantown, WV in 2019. Upon graduating, she completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency and a PGY-2 in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. Carrie then returned to Morgantown and has been in her current position at WVU Medicine in an outpatient internal medicine clinic since 2021.