Program Overview
Geisinger’s integrated health system consists of 10 hospital campuses across 67 counties in central Pennsylvania. Geisinger Medical Center is an academic teaching hospital with 505 beds located in Danville, Pennsylvania. As a resident at a level 1 trauma, comprehensive stroke, and Joint Commission Comprehensive Heart Attack Center, you’ll care for patients with the greatest needs. In addition, the Janet Weis Children’s Hospital houses pediatric and neonatal intensive care units together with a dedicated pediatric emergency department. Furthermore, the health system’s affiliations with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Bloomsburg University School of Nursing, and 15 schools of pharmacy ensure numerous opportunities to educate the health care leaders of tomorrow. You’ll train with a diverse, multidisciplinary care team alongside Geisinger’s board-certified pharmacists to practice at the top of your licensure.
Required Learning Experiences:
- Orientation
- Medical intensive care
- Neurologic intensive care
- Surgical intensive care
- Cardiac and medical intensive care
- Trauma intensive care
- Pediatric intensive care
- Emergency medicine
- Precepting in critical care medicine
Elective Learning Experiences:
- Bone marrow transplant
- Neonatal intensive care
- Nutrition support in critical care medicine
- Any required learning experience can be repeated as an advanced elective.
Longitudinal Experiences:
- Adult code and stroke team participation
- Critical care pharmacy staffing: every third weekend in the intensive care unit and a once-weekly 4-hour emergency department shift
- Infectious diseases
- Critical care pharmacy leadership and management
- Advancing critical care practice and improving critical patient care
- Pharmacokinetic drug monitoring and consultations
- Inpatient anticoagulation monitoring and consultations
- Major research project
- Medication utilization evaluation project
- Participation in departmental and health system committee meetings
Things to Do in Central Pennsylvania:
- Hiking: Ricketts Glen, Worlds End State Park, Delaware Water Gap National Reserve
- Kayaking, disc golf, mini golf, orchards
- Breweries, wineries, restaurants
- Theater, Trivia Night, Cat Café
- Amusement Parks: Knoebels and Hershey Park/Chocolate World
- Adventure to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York City
- Enjoy Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, and Scranton
Program Leadership:
Angela Slampak-Cindric, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP
Director, PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program
Coordinator, Acute Pharmacy Services, Critical Care & Emergency Medicine
Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care Medicine
Stay Connected:
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Instagram: @geisinger_critcarepharm
https://www.geisinger.edu/education/residencies-fellowships/residencies/critical-care-pharmacy-residency
Submitted by:
Laura Andrick, Pharm.D., BCCCP
Program Coordinator, PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program
Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine