VA - Lebanon, PA - Lebanon VA Medical Center, Lebanon, PA

Last updated: 11/17/2022

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Erica Hoot, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP
3 years as an RPD
1700 S Lincoln Ave
Lebanon, PA 17042
Primary Practice: Outpatient Behavioral Health/SUD
1 positions reported
Phone: 717-202-9629
Fax: 717-228-6163
Email: erica.hoot@va.gov
Web: https://www.va.gov/lebanon-healt...

Maximum Number of Positions

  • PGY1: 0
  • PGY2 Psychiatry: 1
  • PGY2 Neurology: 0

Program Details

  • Primary Practice Site: VAMC
  • PGY2 Required Practice Settings: 20% Inpatient / 80% Outpatient
  • ASHP Accreditation Status: Yes (code: 23116)
  • NMS Participant: Yes (code: 632166)
  • Program Inception: 2020
  • Application Deadline: January 10th
  • Starting Date: around July 1st
  • Estimated Stipend: $45,981
  • Financial Support for CPNP Annual Meeting: Full Support
  • Fringe Benefits: Health care, dental, vision benefits. Accrual of at least 13 days paid annual leave and 13 days paid sick leave every year (depending on time served). Eleven paid federal holidays.
  • Interviews Required: Yes
  • Offers pre-commitment: Yes, Only to current Lebanon VA Medical Center PGY1s

Special Requirements for Application

  • PharmD
  • Completion of PGY1 Residency OR equivalent experience
  • College transcripts
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Letters of recommendation (3)
  • US Citizenship

PGY2 Rotations offered

  • Administration
  • Adult inpatient psychiatry
  • Adult outpatient psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Pain management
  • Substance abuse
  • Other: PCMHI, Pharmacoeconomics, Academic Detailing, Palliative Care/Hospice

PGY2 Features

  • PGY2 Staffing Component: No (or N/A)
  • PGY2 Teaching Component: Yes, Required
  • PGY2 Teaching Certificate Program: Yes, Optional
  • PGY2 Other Features: The residency involves teaching PharmD students, PGY1 residents, and various interdisciplinary trainees. An optional teaching certificate is offered. Residents have the potential to receive a PGY2 scope of practice to develop a higher level of autonomy.
  • PGY2 Preceptors: 1 BCPPs, 4 Other Pharmacists, 0 Non-Pharmacists

Program Philosophy

Our goal is to provide residents with opportunities to build a strong foundation in psychiatry, a high level of autonomy, and a range of experiences to develop into well rounded, independent psychiatric clinical pharmacist practitioners.

Site Special Features

The residency is part of an academic teaching center. The resident will practice at a VA hospital and at least one of it's community based outpatient clinics. The facility has a residential rehabilitation treatment program.