Learning Experiences and Duration

Required Clinical Experiences:

  • Orientation (Primary Children’s Hospital Salt Lake City Campus): 4 weeks for external recruit, 2 weeks for early commitment
  • Child and Adolescent - Outpatient (Primary Children’s Hospital Salt Lake City Campus): 6 weeks
  • Child and Adolescent - Inpatient (Primary Children’s Hospital Salt Lake City Campus): 6 weeks
  • Adult and Adolescent - Inpatient (McKay-Dee Hospital): 6 weeks
  • Adult Psychiatry and Medical Detox – Inpatient (LDS Hospital): 6 weeks
  • Adult Psychiatry and Neuro Trauma – Inpatient (Utah Valley Hospital): 4 weeks

Required Longitudinal Experiences:

  • Research and Quality Improvement Project: 12 months, 25% of a day, every Tuesday
  • Staffing: 12 months, two-12 hour shifts every third weekend on the pediatric inpatient psychiatry unit (minimum of 15 weekends completed by end of residency)
    • Typical duties will include clinical coverage with order review and verification, fielding questions from the healthcare team, medication reconciliation, patient/caregiver counseling, and managing protocols and collaborative practice agreements.
    • Holiday coverage (if required):
      • Residents are afforded 10 days of holiday leave as a benefit of their employment.
      • Residents shall be required to work no more than one of the 10 holidays (including Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Day). The fulfillment of holiday coverage will be coordinated through the Residency Program Director.
      • Residents may participate in staffing of additional shifts for holidays consistent with the standards applied to general staff and shall receive pharmacist per diem salary for holiday shifts worked.
  • Teaching: 6 months
    • The resident may complete the Intermountain Academic Teaching Certificate as described in the system manual if desired.
    • The resident will complete the following teaching requirements:
      • Lecture requirements: 3 hours of lecture (either didactic or active learning)
      • Minimum 1 hour seminar presentation to Primary Children’s pharmacy staff regarding a controversial behavioral health topic or unique case presentation.
      • Minimum 2 hours of lecturing at a local college of pharmacy or medicine
  • ACPE-Accredited Presentation: 6 months
    • Minimum 1 hour of ACPE accredited CE for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
  • Precepting: 4-6 weeks depending on other learner's schedule
    • Act as the primary preceptor for a pharmacy student/resident with oversight from pharmacist preceptor.
  • Consistent presence in one longitudinal, continuity-of-care outpatient clinic one day per week is required. Currently established options include:
    • Pediatric Outpatient Psychiatry Longitudinal Clinic: 9 months, 75% of a day every Tuesday
    • Expansion of services to other clinics is welcomed and encouraged
  • Pharmacy Leadership: 12 months
    • Pediatric P&T committee
    • Primary Children's Hospital Medication Safety Committee
    • Behavioral Health Clinical Program
    • System P&T committee (as needed)
    • Policy/order set/CPA creation or update
    • Medication Use Evaluation
    • Safety Newsletter

Available Elective Experiences: 2-4 weeks based on resident’s needs and interest.

  • Intermountain Health
    • Neurology ICU
    • Pediatric Medical Psychiatry
    • Inpatient Psychiatry with Management Focus
    • Management and Medication Safety
    • Other elective learning experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability.
  • Off-site
    • Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment
    • Primary Care Addiction Medicine
    • Poison Control