PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Acute Care - AdventHealth Celebration | Pharmacy Residency Programs Central Florida

AdventHealth Celebration is a non-for-profit, 357 bed state-of-the-art community hospital that serves the residents of Osceola, Orange, Polk and Lake counties as well as patients from all over the world. Established in 1997, AdventHealth Celebration is a prototype for health promotion in a model community designed by Walt Disney. Services are offered to treat and heal but another focus of this facility is to prevent illness and promote good health.

The PGY-1 Pharmacy residency program at AdventHealth Celebration builds on pharmacy education and patient outcomes in order to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacist’s responsibilities of medication-related care of patients. Our campus treats a wide range of patients from all over the world with various disease states which helps to provide our Pharmacy Residents and Pharmacists with experience with treatment of a multitude of disease states as well as the knowledge to help prepare for specialized PGY-2 pharmacy residency training and board certifications.

The acute care PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program was established at AdventHealth Celebration in 2018 however, our clinical pharmacists have been serving as preceptors and mentors to the ambulatory care focus PGY-1 pharmacy residents since 2002. Our campus is also a clinical teaching site for a number of colleges of pharmacy and medicine as well as nursing schools. AdventHealth Celebration provides resident pharmacists opportunity for direct patient care, as well as the ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams in a wide variety of specialties. Our pharmacy team works very closely with providers in a variety of decentralized patient care settings (i.e. emergency department, critical care units, internal medicine floors, oncology unit, etc.). Resident pharmacists will also have the opportunity to staff in the Central Pharmacy and will receive training on how to safely process compounded intravenous and patient specific medications. Upon completion of the acute care PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program at AdventHealth Celebration, our graduate residents with have developed essential skills to become well-rounded pharmacists ready to work in a variety of inpatient settings.

Thank you for your interest in our program and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at any time.

Residency Program Director:
Nam H Nguyen, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Manager
[email protected]

Residency Site Coordinator:
Sandrine Huynh, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist
[email protected]

Program Description: General Information
Two, full time 12-month position available
Face-to-face interview required
Application deadline: January 3
Expected start date: Early July
Weekend and evening service commitment required
Estimated annual stipend: $53,580 + meeting travel support
12 months immediate health insurance
20 days paid vacation, sick, and professional days

Required Qualifications
Doctor of Pharmacy degree
Eligibility for Florida licensure
Participation in the National Matching Services

Other Program Benefits
ACLS and PALS certification and training provided
Teaching certificate opportunity
Leadership and management training opportunities
Travel reimbursement for conferences
AdventHealth uniform and business cards
Employee discounts
Dedicated laptop and workspace
Gym membership discount
Learning Experiences: Following the initial 5-week orientation and training, learning experiences (rotations) are 5 weeks, except December and February Rotations (6 weeks).

Core (Required) Learning Experiences
Pharmacy Enterprise Orientation (2 weeks)
General Medicine (3 weeks)
Critical Care Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship
Pharmacy Administration
Elective Learning Experiences (choose four electives)
Advanced courses
Ambulatory Care
Critical Care Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Ambulatory Care
Cardiovascular Critical Care
Cardiovascular Medicine
Neuromedicine
Neurocritical Care
Oncology
Pulmonary Medicine
Hematology/Oncology
*May take 2 elective learning experiences offsite based on preceptor availability

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences
Leadership Learning Experiences (10 weeks each)
Chief Resident/Team Building
Education/Student Liaison
Quality/Medication Safety
Recruitment/Marketing
1 Medication use evaluation (MUE)
1 Continuing education (CE) presentations
1 Practice-related advancement or quality improvement project including:
Institutional review board and Office of Research Administration approval
External presentation of the project or submission for presentation at a local, state, or national meeting
Journal worthy peer review manuscript of the project
3 Formal case presentations
3 Formal journal club presentations
Regular review of medication safety events
Code response
Department staffing
Application Information: Our program participates in the National Match Service Code: 261013

The following application materials must be submitted in PhORCAS by January 3

Completed PhORCAS application

Curriculum vitae

Letter of intent

Three recommendations utilizing the PhORCAS template

Transcripts from all colleges of pharmacy attended

For questions regarding the application process, please contact Nam Nguyen at [email protected].

AdventHealth Celebration PGY1 - Acute Care

About Our Program

A Place for Professional and Personal Development

Meet Our Preceptors

Tyler Bui, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Corey Finnell, PharmD, BCPS

Jessica Snawerdt, PharmD, BCIDP

Nam Nguyen, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Jennifer Gregory, PharmD

Abhay Patel, PharmD

Alyssa Buss, PharmD

Daniel Hawkins, PharmD, BCPS

Katie Bales, PharmD, MSM, BCSCP

Sandrine Huynh, PharmD, BCPS

Yohannes Woldemichael, PharmD

Kimberly Finley, PharmD, BCACP

Raechel Lozano, PharmD, BCACP

Shruti Thompson, PharmD

Mary Tremaine, PharmD

Meet Our Residents

Lizbeth Ramos, PharmD

Ronald Mahan, PharmD