VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO
Last updated: 07/24/2025
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Matt Karow, PharmD, BCPP2 years as an RPD
Contact: matthew.karow@va.gov
1700 N Wheeling St
Aurora, CO 80045
Primary Practice: Outpatient SUD Clinic
2 PGY2 Psychiatry position
Email: matthew.karow@va.gov
Maximum Number of Positions
- PGY1: 0
- PGY2 Psychiatry: 2
- PGY2 Neurology: 0
Program Details
- Primary Practice Site: VAMC
- PGY2 Required Practice Settings: 50% Inpatient / 50% Outpatient
- ASHP Accreditation Status: Yes
- NMS Participant: Yes
- Program Inception: 2012
- Application Deadline: unknown
- Starting Date: unknown
- Estimated Stipend: 57,785
- Financial Support for AAPP Annual Meeting: Full Support
- Fringe Benefits: unknown
- Interviews Required: Yes
- Offers pre-commitment: Yes, VA National Early Commit
PGY2 Rotations offered
- Adult inpatient psychiatry
- Adult outpatient psychiatry
- Geriatric psychiatry
- Neurology
- Pain management
- Specialty clinic
- Substance abuse
PGY2 Features
- PGY2 Staffing Component: No (or N/A)
- PGY2 Teaching Component: Yes, Optional
- PGY2 Teaching Certificate Program: No (or N/A)
- PGY2 Other Features: Required attendance at University of Colorado Psychiatry Residency Didactics
- PGY2 Preceptors: 13 BCPPs, 5 Other Pharmacists, 1 Non-Pharmacists
Program Philosophy
Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent, confident, and compassionate providers of pharmaceutical care, as individuals and as members of the health care team. They will be prepared to accept positions as psychiatric pharmacists in an inpatient or outpatient clinical role, or as entry level faculty members at a college of pharmacy.
