Overview

Albany Medical Center is a 766-bed teaching hospital and medical college. Its mission is to care for patients of all ages with a broad range of health conditions. Albany Medical Center, a member of the Albany Med Health System, serves more than 3 million people in 25 counties of Eastern New York and Western New England. Albany Medical Center is the only teaching hospital linked to a medical school in New York’s Capital Region and the hospital of choice for over 34,000 admitted patients each year. Patients rely on Albany Medical Center for unique programs, including a level 1 trauma center, an accredited stroke center, a 125-bed children’s hospital, and the region’s most sophisticated emergency department and only pediatric emergency department.

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

• Required Rotation Experiences
  • Advanced Hospital Pharmacy
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Disease
  • Anticoagulation Management
  • Children’s Hospital
  • Clinical Administration
  • Hospital Pharmacy-Orientation
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical or Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Elective Rotation Experiences (not an all-inclusive list)
  • Cardiology-Ambulatory
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Hematology and Oncology
  • HIV Medicine
  • Infectious Disease Consult
  • Solid Organ Transplant (renal)
• Longitudinal Opportunities
  • Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
  • Drug Information
  • Hospital Pharmacy Longitudinal
  • Practice Advancement Project
  • Teaching and Learning Program (optional)

What Makes the Albany Medical Center PGY1 Residency Program Unique

• PGY1 pharmacists play a large role in:
  • Participating in interdisciplinary patient care activities
  • Educating health care providers, patients, and families
  • Participating in quality improvement and research projects
  • Precepting and teaching Pharm.D. students
• This program offers unique experiences:
  • Training at a large academic medical center with opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and research
  • Acute care training at a level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center, an accredited stroke center, and a level IV neonatal intensive care unit
  • Pediatric rotational experience in a 125-bed children’s hospital, with the region’s only pediatric emergency department
  • Robust learning opportunities from a wide range of required and elective opportunities
  • Orientation “boot camp” on foundational pharmaceutical skills, topics, and assessments
  • Teaching and mentoring opportunities
  • Preparedness for PGY2 or as an independent clinical pharmacist
  • ACLS/PALS training

For more information, please visit Albany Medical Center’s PGY1 Pharmacy Residency website.

Program Leadership:

• Program Director: Erica Maceira, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCTXP
• Program Coordinators: Devin Holden, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP; and Katelyn Steverson, Pharm.D., BCPS, CACP

Submitted by: Former PGY1 Resident Angel-Rose Weber, Pharm.D.