Pharmacy Residency

King’s Daughters Medical Center
PGY-1 Residency Program

The residency is a 12-month, ASHP-accredited, post-graduate program that begins around July 1 annually. We accept four residents yearly.

Location: Ashland, Kentucky

Core Rotations (5 weeks each):

• Advanced Illness Management
• Critical Care
• Hospitalist
• Infectious Disease
• Medication Safety
• Emergency Medicine or Ambulatory Care (selective rotation - resident chooses one)

Longitudinal Rotations

• Management
• Staffing
• Teaching certificate

Program Completion Requirements

• Participation in ASHP mid-year conference
• Present at Eastern States Regional Residency Conference
• Completion of year-long research project
• Complete two (2) Medication use evaluations/medication policies
• 2 ACPE-approved CE presentations
  • Complete teaching certificate program (offered through the Marshall University School of Pharmacy)

Elective Rotations (5 weeks each):

• Academic
• Cardiology
• Emergency medicine
• Gerontology
• Oncology
• Repeat a core rotation

Staffing Requirements

• Residents will staff in the central pharmacy every third weekend, every other Friday (1/2 day), and rotating holidays

About King’s Daughters Medical Center

• 465-bed community hospital located in Ashland, Kentucky
• Provides services in cardiology, neurosciences, intensive care, open heart surgery, nephrology, orthopedics and more
• Services the greater Ashland area, and the majority of eastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio