Residency program director
Ashley M. Covert, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
System Director, Pharmacy Supply Chain and Contracting
PGY-1/2 Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Residency Program Director
For questions, please email ashley.m.covert@hitchcock.org.
Program description
The Dartmouth Health and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership (HSPAL) residency is a 24-month, full-time, postgraduate year one and two combined (PGY-1/2) training program. We designed our training program to develop knowledge and encourage clinical and operational leadership. You will refine clinical problem-solving skills, enhance leadership skills, build confidence, and work with other members of the healthcare team to deliver the highest standard of patient care. The primary objective of the program is to develop health system pharmacy administrators who are trained and prepared to immediately assume leadership positions within large integrated health systems.
For PGY-1 year program
For PGY-1 year program specifics, please review the PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program webpage.
PGY-2 practice sites
- Primary Practice Site: 1000 Quality Drive Hooksett, NH
- Secondary Practice Site: One Medical Center Drive Lebanon, NH
Required block learning experiences (PGY-2)
- Advanced operations
- Location: Lebanon/Hooksett
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Advanced practice management clinical leadership
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Ambulatory pharmacy care management
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Executive pharmacy
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration 5 weeks
- Infusion management
- Location: Lebanon/Hooksett
- Duration: 4 weeks
- Pharmacy supply chain, contract management and 340B
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Retail and Specialty Pharmacy
- Location: Lebanon/Hooksett
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Staffing and orientation
- Location: Lebanon
- Duration: 5 weeks
Elective 4-week learning experiences (PGY-2)
- Advanced 340B
- Advanced informatics
- Advanced executive pharmacy
- Advanced pharmacy informatics
- Advanced sterile compounding
- Advanced pharmacy supply chain and contracting
- Advanced sterile compounding
- Investigational drug services
- Medication safety
Other elective opportunities may be available based on individual interests.
Required longitudinal learning experiences (PGY-2)
- Advocacy
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Description: Residents will spend approximately 8 hours per month participating in advocacy activities throughout the health system, the region, and nationally while on rotation.
- Budgeting
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Description: Residents will spend approximately 8 hours per month on system pharmacy financials and program requirements related to business plan development, capital requisitions, and budget management.
- Hospital pharmacy practice and interviewing part I and II
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 26 weeks each
- Description: Residents will be responsible for functioning as a manager for an assigned area of pharmacy. Residents are expected to spend approximately 8 hours per week on rotation activities including staff engagement, one-on-one staff meetings, timecard responsibilities, interviews, policy and procedure updates, operational issues, and general management requirements. Time commitments will vary week to week based on area needs.
- Medication safety and quality
- Location: Hooksett/Lebanon
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Description: Residents will be responsible for monthly topic discussions and assigned project work throughout the rotation. Residents will spend approximately 8 hours per month on this rotation.
- Medication use evaluation (MUE)
- Location: Hooksett
- Duration: 52 weeks
- Description: Residents will complete an MUE during the PGY-2 year. Residents are expected to spend approximately 6.5 hours per month over 12 months (80 hours) on this rotation. Residents may elect to spend additional time on the MUE in any month to complete the assignment earlier in the residency year.
- Research project
- Location: Hooksett/Lebanon (project dependent)
- Duration: 52 weeks
- Description: Residents will select or design a research project to complete during their PGY-2 year. Residents are expected to spend approximately 16 hours per month on their research project. Residents may be required to spend additional time on the longitudinal to meet assigned deadlines of the program based on project selection.
- Staffing
- Location: Lebanon
- Duration: 52 weeks (includes 5-week block rotation)
- Description: Residents will staff 13 weekends during their longitudinal block, in addition to a 5-week staffing block. Residents in the PGY-2 program staff an average of 8 hours per week when averaged over the course of the PGY-2 program. Longitudinal staffing shifts are 8 hours on Saturday and Sunday and residents will staff in central operations and the IV room in Lebanon. Residents may be requested to staff in any area they have been trained in during PGY-1 if schedule needs dictate. The resident will serve as Manager on Call during their 13 working weekends from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. Manager on call hours are a combination of at home on call with approximately 3 hours per call rotation spent addressing issues outside of staffing hours. Hours supporting on call needs vary based on factors including staffing shortages, patient census, automation issues, and operational demands.
- Holiday requirements: One hospital observed holiday
Master's degree
Residents are required to complete a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) through Colby Sawyer College. The resident will enroll in the MBA curriculum during both years of the program.
Longitudinal research project
Residents will complete one longitudinal research project during the residency year. The project may be research or quality improvement-based to support the development or enhancement of pharmacy services. Residents will present project results at the Eastern States Residency Conference and complete a written manuscript suitable for publication.
Additional activities
(1) ACPE-accredited continuing education presentations for pharmacists and technicians outside of the organization (For example, New Hampshire Society of Health System Pharmacists (NHSHP) or The New England Alliance for Health (NEAH) CE event)
(1) Medication Use Evaluation
(2) Journal clubs
(2) Case presentations
(2) In-service presentations
(1) Monograph or class review
APPE pharmacy student and PGY-1 pharmacy resident precepting
Residents have the opportunity to co-precept APPE pharmacy student activities and PGY-1 pharmacy residents throughout the year based on personal interest and availability.
Benefits
PGY-2 stipend: $57,500
- Paid time off
- Vacation days (10 days)
- Institutional Holidays (5 days)
Professional travel
- ASHP's Conference for Pharmacy Leaders
- Poster presentation required
- Covered expenses: hotel, flight, $50 per day for food, conference registration
ASHP's Mid-Year Clinical Meeting
- Poster presentation optional
- Covered expenses: Hotel, flight, $50 per day for food, conference registration
- Eastern States Regional Residency Program
- Platform presentation required-a poster presentation may be substituted if required by the conference
- Covered expenses: hotel, flight/mileage, $50 per day for food, conference registration
- New England Alliance for Health Continuing Education Event
- CE presentation required for technicians and pharmacists
- Covered expenses: Mileage only. Conference registration and hotel covered by the event.
How to apply
- Matched candidates are strongly encouraged to complete New Hampshire licensure exam requirements before the start of the PGY1 residency. PGY2 residents are required to be licensed for the entirety of the second year.
- Letter of intent
- Curriculum vitae
- College transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- PhORCAS Residency Program application
- ASHP Residency Matching Program registration