Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Programs

Riverside University Health System, Riverside, CA

Last updated: 10/06/2023

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Maximum Number of Positions

• PGY1: 4
• PGY2 Psychiatry: 2
• PGY2 Neurology: 0

Program Details

• Primary Practice Site: University teaching hospital
• PGY2 Required Practice Settings: 70% Inpatient / 30% Outpatient
• ASHP Accreditation Status: Yes (code: 92168)
• NMS Participant: Yes (code: 772866)
• Program Inception: 2018
• Application Deadline: 1/1/2024
• Starting Date: 07/01/2024
• Estimated Stipend: $53,406
• Financial Support for AAPP Annual Meeting: Full Support
• Fringe Benefits: Health insurance, sick leave, paid vacation and approved professional travel reimbursement
• Interviews Required: Yes
• Offers pre-commitment: Yes, to RUHS PGY-1 Pharmacy Residents

Special Requirements for Application

• PharmD
• Completion of PGY1 Residency OR equivalent experience
• Eligible for state licensure
• College transcripts
• Curriculum vitae
• Letters of recommendation (3)

PGY2 Rotations offered

• Administration
• Adult inpatient psychiatry
• Adult outpatient psychiatry
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Consultation liaison psychiatry
• Developmental disabilities
• Emergency psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry
• Geriatric psychiatry
• Neurology

PGY2 Features

• PGY2 Staffing Component: Yes, Required
• PGY2 Teaching Component: Yes, Required
• PGY2 Teaching Certificate Program: Yes, Optional
• PGY2 Other Features: RUHS Arlington Campus is a 77 bed inpatient behavioral health hospital serving the County of Riverside. The hospital includes two 28 bed adult units, a 12 bed adolescent unit, a 9 bed adult psychiatric intensive care unit, and adult and pediatric/adolescent emergency departments. Pharmacy services are provided to inpatients and outpatients with mental illness. Clinical pharmacists at this site serve as preceptors to pharmacy students from University of Southern California, University of the Pacific, Loma Linda University, Keck Graduate Institute, University of Colorado Denver, and UC San Diego. The campus is home to RUHS's Psychiatry Medical Residency, University of California - Riverside's Psychiatry Medical Residency, and UCR's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship programs.
• PGY2 Preceptors: 8 BCPPs, 3 Other Pharmacists, 0 Non-Pharmacists

PGY1 Elective Rotations offered

• Psychiatry

PGY1 Special Features

RUHS Arlington Campus's Inpatient Psychiatry rotation is a required 6 week rotation of the RUHS PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency. Opportunities are available to conduct a psychiatric based residency project during the PGY-1 residency year. Early commitment opportunity to the PGY-2 residency is also a possibility offered to PGY-1 residents.

Site Special Features

Riverside University Health System is the county medical center for Riverside County. It has a long history of being affiliated with local health science universities, including Loma Linda University, University of Southern California, Western University, and numerous nursing and allied health care universities.