Program Type: ASHP accredited two-year residency (PGY 1 and PGY 2)
ASHP Match Number: 141419

Purpose: The Pharmacotherapy Residency is designed to foster knowledge and refine clinical skills across all areas of pharmacotherapy and to provide an institutionally based and ambulatory care experience.

Program Overview: Resident will develop a strong clinical base in general medicine, patient care skills, and gain competence in teaching. Upon completion of this program, an individual will be qualified for Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy and attainment of a clinical specialist position.

Training Experience:

• Development of patient care skills
• Present at professional meetings
• Teaching experiences, both didactic and student precepting opportunities, through affiliation with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
• Completion of a drug utilization evaluation and contribution to the medical literature
• Completion of a clinical research project
• Longitudinal outpatient clinic
• Participate in an interdisciplinary committee and a pharmacy based journal clubs

Rotations:

• Core Rotations:
  • Internal Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Drug Policy and Outcomes Research
  • Critical Care
  • Drug Information
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Practice Management
  • Clinical Practice Management and Drug Policy
  • Pediatrics
  • Infectious Disease
  • Pain Management
  • Oncology
  • Psychiatry
  • Pharmaceutical Care
• Elective Rotations:
  • AIDS/HIV
  • Anticoagulation
  • Cardiac critical care (CCU)
  • Clinical Practice Mgmt/Drug Policy
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Hematologic Malignancies
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Investigational Drugs/ACTG
  • Medical Intensive Care (MICU)
  • Medical Oncology
  • Neuro Critical Care (NCCU)
  • Outcomes research
  • Pain Management
  • Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Intensive Care (PICU or NICU)
  • Surgical Intensive Care (SICU)
  • Transplantation
  • Cardiac Surgery ICU

Benefits: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/benefits/index.html

Staffing: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/about/staffing.html

On-Call: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/about/on-call.html

Application Information:

• Letters of recommendation should be emailed to Dr. Leigh Efird at  lefird1@jhmi.edu
• Official transcripts should be mailed to Dr. Leigh Efird at the address below.
• Link to online application form:
  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/application/index.html
  

      

       Program Director and Contact Information
       Leigh E. Efird, PharmD, BCPS
       Clinical Specialist, Adult Internal Medicine
       Program Director, Pharmacotherapy Residency
       600 N. Wolfe Street, Carnegie 180
       Baltimore, MD 21287-6180
       Phone: 410-502-5703
       Fax: 410-955-0287
       Email: lefird1@jhmi.edu




Dr. Efird is the Adult Internal Medicine Pharmacy Clinical Specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is also the Director of the PGY-1&2 Pharmacotherapy Residency Program at Johns Hopkins and serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Efird received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed her Pharmacy Practice Residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, Virginia and Internal Medicine Specialty Residency at Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Efird is a member of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and Maryland Society of Health System Pharmacists. Dr. Efird has practice and research interests in inpatient diabetes management, inpatient and outpatient anticoagulation management, and infectious diseases.