McKay-Dee Hospital is a 319-bed community hospital that offers nationally ranked programs, including the Heart and Vascular Institute and newborn ICU. Some of our other programs of excellence include:

  • Huntsman-Intermountain Cancer Center
  • Emergency Services and Level II Trauma Care
  • Stewart Rehabilitation Center
  • Women and Children’s Services
  • The Community Health Information Center

Residency Program

The McKay-Dee Hospital PGY1 pharmacy residency program was created in 2003 and is an ASHP-accredited program focused on training residents to become competent, confident practitioners of direct patient care. The 12-month program will also help to prepare residents for a PGY2 specialty practice residency, an adjunctive pharmacy faculty position and/or employment as a clinical pharmacist within a health system.

Pharmacy Services

Our primary goal is to provide excellent customer service while ensuring patient safety. The pharmacy has experienced growth in services during the past few years and now has 36 full-time pharmacists and 24 full-time technicians. It is a decentralized model with direct clinical services with formal rounds occurring on the critical care units and in behavioral health.

Clinical Pharmacy Service Areas

  • Ambulatory Care
  • Behavioral Health
  • Cardiology
  • Critical Care
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • Infectious Disease
  • Intermediate Care
  • Neonatal ICU
  • Oncology
  • Hospital Pharmacy Practice Management
  • Surgical Services

Pharmacy staff members serve on various hospital committees such as medication safety, infection control, patient care management and quality assurance.

Amongst our pharmacy staff, 22 are board certified, 20 have completed PGY1s, 2 have completed PGY2s, and 4 have advanced degrees beyond pharmacy. All but one of our residency preceptors are board certified pharmacists.

Staffing

Residents are required to staff 32 hours per month. Residents are generally scheduled every other weekend and work a mix of 12-hour shifts in the central pharmacy/IV room and 8-hour clinical shifts in direct patient care areas, typically starting with our General Medicine and Behavioral Health floors. Once residents successfully complete an onsite clinical rotation, they will be eligible to staff on that floor for their clinical shift. In general, this leads to more staffing in the central pharmacy shifts during the first half of the year and clinical shifts during the second half. During orientation, we focus the training on the central pharmacy, IV room, General Medicine, and Behavioral Health. There will be additional training in the OR, Surgical, and the NICU to further understand the roles of each pharmacist.

Rotations

Click here for a listing of PGY1 Pharmacy rotations; note that additional rotations are available upon request. Residents are allowed to complete rotations anywhere throughout the Intermountain enterprise and at any site of service (hospitals, clinics, homecare, central office, etc.).

Residency Completion Requirements

See the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency homepage and Residency Manual for details.

Resident Retention

The pharmacy department has 2 current residents and 38 former residents. Of the 38 former residents, 7 went on to a PGY2, 13 continue to work with McKay-Dee Hospital, and 14 others work elsewhere for Intermountain Health. It is a goal of the program to equip the residents with the skills and knowledge necessary to perform confidently in a clinical pharmacy position.

After Completing This Program

Pharmacists completing this residency program will be competent and confident practitioners of direct patient care in multiple practice and patient care environments. They will be able to identify and resolve potential and actual patient-specific, drug-related problems and will be accountable for achieving optimal drug therapy outcomes as members of a healthcare team.

These pharmacists will become skilled educators, both verbally and in writing, of health care professionals, students, patients and the community. They will demonstrate professional maturity by independently following a personal philosophy of practice, monitoring their own performance, exhibiting commitment to the profession and exercising leadership in improving the safety of the medication-use system.

As highly trained professionals, these pharmacists will be well prepared to compete in today's job market.

Application Process

To apply to the program, submit your application through PhORCAS. Candidate applications must be received prior to 10 pm MST on January 2nd, 2025 Refer to the application information webpage for details.

Benefits

Refer to our benefits webpage for details.