PGY2 Critical Care Tucson Pharmacy Residency Program

The Critical Care PGY2 pharmacy residency is based at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT) and designed to train select, highly motivated and qualified pharmacists for a critical care position in an acute care facility and/or an advanced fellowship in an area of critical care or research.

The critical care resident will have clinical, teaching, and research responsibilities. The primary responsibility will be monitoring drug therapy during required and elective learning experiences including:

• Rounding with multidisciplinary teams
• Providing drug therapy recommendations during rounding activities
• Completing written progress notes in the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Providing formal consultations

Academic and research opportunities include:

• Assisting in training pharmacy students during clerkship rotations
• Participating in research projects
• Small group case facilitation
• Didactic and interactive presentations to pharmacy students and fellow pharmacists
• Protocol development

Residency Director

Brian J. Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
PGY2 Residency Program Director
(520) 694-0066