ASHP Accredited
Program Director: Nicole Kovacic Scherrer, PharmD, BCCCP
Positions: 1
Application Due: TBD
Starting Date: TBD
Estimated Stipend: $56,000 + benefits
Purpose Statement & Program Overview
The PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at WVU Medicine provides the resident with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to become a competent practitioner. The goal of this program is to produce an independent, professional critical care pharmacist who can collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and perform at any level of critical care practice site across the country.
The program is a twelve-month, postgraduate training experience composed of required & elective learning experiences designed to expose the resident to multiple different areas of critical care. After completing a hospital orientation, the resident will begin their 2 to 5 week rotational experiences including the required rotations listed below and a minimum of 3 of the below listed elective rotations based on the resident’s interests. Longitudinal experiences will be completed throughout the year to support the resident’s learning and development.
Learning Experiences
Required Learning Experiences (5 Weeks in Length):
- Cardiac Intensive Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Medical Intensive Care
- Neurocritical Care
- Surgical Intensive Care
Available Elective Learning Experiences (Resident can select from any of the options below; 2 to 5 weeks in length)
- Inpatient Advanced Heart Failure/Pulmonary Hypertension
- Bone Marrow Transplant/Heme Malignancies
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Trauma/Emergency Services
- Pediatric Intensive Care/Pediatric Intensive Cardiac Care
- Toxicology
- Precepting Fundamentals
- Advanced Experience of Completed Required Learning Experience
Longitudinal Experiences:
- Medication Use Evaluation
- Research Project
- Manuscript Preparation and Submission
- Academia
- ACPE Accredited Continuing Education (CE) Presentation
- Medication Safety
- Pharmacy Practice (Staffing)
- Critical Care Journal Club
- Committee Involvement
- Additional Elective Longitudinal Experiences Available
Pharmacy Practice Component
- PGY2 Critical Care Residents practice every third weekend. Shifts may be either in the ICU (two 8-hour shifts) or in the Emergency Room (two 12-hour shifts). The resident will be granted one compensation day surrounding the weekend they staff in the Emergency Room.
- PGY2 Pharmacy Residents staff every third weekend. Weekend staffing will be in emergency medicine (two 12-hour shifts) or ICU (two 8-hour shifts). The resident will be granted one compensation day surrounding the weekends worked in emergency medicine.
- 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 other activities should not hinder the achievement of these objectives.
PGY2 Critical Care Residency Director
Nicole Kovacic Scherrer, Pharm.D., BCCP graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy in 2013. Upon graduating, she completed a PGY1 Residency at Temple University Hospital followed by a Critical Care PGY2 at Maine Medical Center. Nicole currently resides on staff as the Medical ICU Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Critical Care Medicine Carolinas/Virginias Chapter.