Pharmacy Residency Program

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center offers a one-year Pharmacy Residency Program (PGY1). This new program offers a variety of learning opportunities at an established teaching hospital located in a diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The program’s primary goal is to equip the resident with the knowledge, skills, confidence, and abilities to provide care in a direct patient care setting. In this program, the resident will train under a passionate and expert pharmacy faculty in a multidisciplinary team that provide comprehensive medication therapy management across a broad spectrum of medical populations.

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center will develop the graduate into a clinical pharmacist with the ability to function within a health system. The resident will rotate through 12 months of inpatient and ambulatory patient care experiences to foster independent clinical decision-making through established collaborative drug therapy management agreements. Residents will have the opportunity to obtain a teaching certificate through an affiliated school of pharmacy. They will have a faculty appointment at Touro College of Pharmacy, with opportunities to teach small group didactic academic sessions. Residents will complete at least one longitudinal research project and present the results at a peer reviewed professional meeting.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must meet the following requirements to be eligible for a PGY1 residency:

• Graduated from ACPE-accredited Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program [or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)]
  • Official academic transcripts required as part of application process (Minimum GPA 3.0)
• Eligible for licensure in New York State
  • See WHMC Policy and Procedure Manual, NYS Licensure for Pharmacy, page 2, paragraph 6: Failure to Obtain Licensure
• Apply through PhORCAS, including curriculum vitae, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation (at least one from APPE preceptor)

Program Structure

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is structured in a manner that supports residents in achieving the aforementioned purpose and the required educational goals and objectives relating to patient care, advancing practice, leadership and management, and teaching and education. The experiential rotations include:

Required Learning Experiences

• Internal Medicine I
• Internal Medicine II
• Cardiology
• Infectious Disease
• Ambulatory Care
• Critical Care
• Emergency Medicine

Elective Learning Experiences

• 1-2 Elective Rotations
• Research

Longitudinal Learning Experiences

• Faculty Appointment at Touro College of Pharmacy
• Pharmacotherapy grand rounds presentations
• Research project
• Medication use evaluation (MUE)
• Hospital committee involvement
• Clinical/staffing coverage
• Teaching certificate

ASHP Code: 22973

PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency

PGY2 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice. PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available.

The PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is designed to develop the resident into a highly trained, independent pharmacotherapy specialist with advanced expertise in internal medicine. Through core internal medicine and subspecialty learning experiences, the resident will receive comprehensive and individualized training in countless aspects of internal medicine from passionate and expert pharmacy faculty. Various longitudinal experiences will focus on professional development, helping the resident build skills in leadership, communication, and clinical research.

Primary clinical responsibilities of the resident include rounding with assigned teams, performing pharmacokinetic monitoring, validating pharmacy orders, performing medication reconciliation, ensuring appropriate transitions of care, and providing patient education. Ultimately, the resident is responsible for providing comprehensive medication therapy management for internal medicine patients by designing, recommending, and monitoring therapeutic regimens that incorporate evidence-based medicine. The resident is expected to work professionally and respectfully and to build relationships with each multidisciplinary team.

Through its affiliation with Touro College of Pharmacy, the PGY2 residency program offers advanced training in academia. The resident will receive a faculty appointment at TCOP, facilitate recitation courses throughout the year, and complete a teaching or leadership certificate program. The PGY2 resident will participate in a layered-learning model at the medical center with PGY1 residents and/or pharmacy students under the advanced direction of pharmacy residency faculty.

Program Structure

The PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is structured in a manner that supports residents in achieving the aforementioned purpose and the required educational goals and objectives relating to patient care, advancing practice, leadership and management, and teaching and education. This is a twelve-month, full-time training program consisting of eight six-week learning experiences (rotations) in addition to several longitudinal experiences.

Required Learning Experiences

• Orientation (3 weeks)
• Internal Medicine I (6 weeks)
• Internal Medicine II – Geriatrics (6 weeks)
• Internal Medicine III – Subspecialty selections (6 weeks)
• Internal Medicine IV (6 weeks)
• Cardiology (6 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases (6 weeks)

Elective Learning Experiences (2)

• Ambulatory Care (6 weeks)
• Cardiology II (6 weeks)
• Critical Care (6 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine (6 weeks)

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences

• Clinical/staffing coverage
• Hospital committee participation
• One medication use evaluation (MUE)
• One research project
• Pharmacotherapy grand rounds
• Teaching/academia

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must meet the following requirements to be eligible for a PGY2 residency:

• Graduated from ACPE-accredited Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program [or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)]
  • Official academic transcripts required as part of application process
• Successful completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program
  • One letter of recommendation in application process must be from the applicant’s PGY1 residency program director
  • Matched/accepted resident must email copy of PGY1 certificate to this PGY2 residency program director immediately upon graduation
• Eligible for licensure in New York State
  • See WHMC Policy and Procedure Manual, NYS Licensure for Pharmacy,page 2, paragraph 6: Failure to Obtain Licensure

• Apply through PhORCAS, including curriculum vitae, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation

ASHP Code: 22972

NMS Code: 662956

Henry Cohen, PharmD, MS, FCCM, BCPP, BCGP
Senior Director of Pharmacotherapy Residency Programs, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Dean and Professor, Touro College of Pharmacy

Evan Sasson, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Director of Pharmacotherapy Residency Programs, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Cardiology
Residency Program Director, PGY1
ESasson@wyckoffhospital.org
718-571-7982

Kendra Nielsen, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Internal Medicine
Residency Program Director, PGY2
KNielsen@wyckoffhospital.org
718-571-7976

Joseph Rumore, MS, RPh
Director of Pharmacy

John Masi, MBA, RPh
Assistant Director of Pharmacy

Roman Fazylov, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist, Ambulatory Care
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Touro College of Pharmacy

Hector Garcia, PharmD, BCPS
Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

Michelle Jakubovics (Friedman), PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
Clinical Pharmacist, Internal Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Touro College of Pharmacy

Tony Jung, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Critical Care

James McCracken, PharmD, BCIDP, AAHIVP
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Infectious Diseases

Rochel Preiserowicz, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Geriatrics