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Posted: 09-Oct-25

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

Type: Residency PGY-2

Salary: 76,000

Categories:

Graduate Program

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Hospital/Institutional

Requirements:

Residency Required

Specialty Practice Areas:

Medication Use Safety

Required Education:

PharmD

The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Medication-Use Safety and Policy Residency is a 12-month ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency program that provides advanced training in medication safety and medication-use policy. The complex and high-risk nature of treatment provided at St. Jude provides a unique learning environment for patient safety and medication policy that can be applied later to any health care setting. 

The resident will investigate medication errors and lead improvement efforts to prevent future events. Emphasis will be placed on leading and coordinating Cause Analyses (such as root cause analysis), managing a medication use safety team/committee, participating in methods to improve event detection and event reporting, and contributing to other quality improvement initiatives. The resident will also participate in both administrative and patient care aspects of the St. Jude medication-use process, such as guideline and policy development and formulary management. Other activities include coordination of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee, regulatory readiness, and completion of medication-use evaluations and audits. 

Along with medication-safety and policy experiences, the resident will acquire experience in teaching through lectures and precepting pharmacy students. The resident will be expected to complete a major project focused on medication safety or policy or lead a quality improvement initiative. Experiences during the residency will enable the resident to seek a career focused on medication safety or medication-use policy. 

• Official school transcript(s) 
• Letter of intent 
• Three (3) letters of reference 
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree, successful completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Residency, and eligibility for licensure to practice pharmacy in the state of Tennessee 
• Completion of an onsite or virtual interview 

About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

The Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is committed to providing advanced practice pharmacy services that individualize care for each child at St. Jude while supporting a collective research endeavor. PGY2 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice. PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available. PGY2 residents in the individual programs learn, contribute, and participate in dynamic environments that include professional and technical personnel in patient care and pharmaceutical research. St. Jude offers five distinct ASHP-accredited 12-month specialized pharmacy residency PGY2 opportunities.

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