VA - Lebanon, PA - Lebanon VA Medical Center, Lebanon, PA
Last updated: 11/17/2022
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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.
