Internal Medicine

At least four months are completed in the area of inpatient internal medicine. During these rotations, residents participate as a member of the internal medicine teaching team, providing therapeutic recommendations and drug information through direct interaction with physicians and other members of the healthcare team. The resident will have opportunities to deliver inservices to the medicine teams as well as assist in co-precepting Pharm.D. students. During the last (fourth) internal medicine learning experience, the resident will serve as primary preceptor for 2 APPE Pharm.D. students. The resident schedule typically includes daily inpatient care rounds with the medicine team, frequent discussion of patients with internal medicine preceptors, and weekly topic discussions with medicine preceptors. Direct precepting responsibilities may include facilitating topic discussions for students, assisting with journal club discussions and facilitating other student activities as assigned (e.g. case presentations).

Required inpatient subspecialty experiences include infectious diseases and the medical intensive care unit. These experiences typically follow the first 2 months of internal medicine and may be repeated as an advanced elective learning experience during the second half of the residency program.

The resident is required to complete an ambulatory care rotation either over one month or as a half day per week over six months in a setting of their choice to gain experience in providing longitudinal patient care.

Available ambulatory care practice sites include:

• Internal Medicine Clinic: variety of internal medicine disease states
• Family Medicine Clinic
• Solid Organ Transplant Outpatient Services

Various options exist for electives based on the resident's interest, including the trauma intensive care unit, surgical intensive care unit, family medicine, solid organ transplant, transitions of care and emergency medicine. Other offerings may be available depending on the resident's interest. Residents may complete additional rotations for any of the core learning experiences. 

The resident delivers two formal platform presentations or classroom lectures and assumes primary precepting responsibility for P4 students during the latter part of the residency. Teaching also occurs throughout the year as the resident presents interdisciplinary inservices to the medical and/or nursing staff and assists with co-precepting of Pharm.D. students in the experiential portion of their curriculum. The resident has the option to complete the Advanced Teaching Skills for Residents teaching certificate program which involves additional teaching activities.

Residents complete a research curriculum which includes the University of Oklahoma Health Campus (OUHC) Institutional Review Board (IRB) certification for conducting human research and specific research training sessions through Resident Rounds. Each resident designs and executes an original research project under the mentorship of a research committee, which consists of the residency program director, an expert in the practice area in which research will be conducted, and an expert in study design, data analysis, and statistical methods. Residents present preliminary research findings as a poster at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and final results as a podium presentation at the Oklahoma Society of Health-System Pharmacists Oklahoma Residency Research Conference. In accordance with ASHP standards, residents prepare a high-quality manuscript based on their research findings.

The resident participates in the peer-review of at least one manuscript submitted for publication. The resident also has the option to contribute to the literature through preparation and publication of a newsletter article, a case report or review article, and their original research.

The resident develops practice management skills through participation in institutional projects and committee work at OUMC (e.g. medication safety committee). The resident also serves as a member of a college of pharmacy committee (i.e. assessment or curriculum committee). 

The staffing longitudinal is a learning experience that spans the entire residency year. This experience will take place at OUMC. The purpose of this experience is to provide residents with clinical staffing experience. Staffing responsibilities will consist of clinical tasks including but not limited to: vancomycin monitoring and dose adjustment, aminoglycoside monitoring and dose adjustment, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment, renal dose adjustments, and IV/PO interchanges. The resident will receive initial orientation for clinical duties during orientation month. Staffing throughout the residency year will occur every 3rd weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Preceptors will be available to coach and facilitate the residents.

Resident involvement in local and national professional organizations (as the residency schedule allows) is encouraged. Examples include:

• Oklahoma Society of Health-System Pharmacists (OSHP)
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
• American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
• American Association of College of  Pharmacy (AACP)
• Committee Activities/Assignments

PGY2 Internal Medicine Residency Program Requirements and Checklist

Kiya Bennett, Pharm.D., BCPS

Kiya Bennett, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Internal Medicine

Corey Guidry, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Internal Medicine

Taylor Fallin, Pharm.D.
Practice Area: Internal Medicine

Paul Boylan, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Transitions of Care

Bryan White, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Inpatient Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship

Emily Siegrist, Pharm.D.

Practice Area: Inpatient Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship

Katherine Biddy, Pharm.D., BCCCP
Practice Area: Critical Care

Kara Kubbs, Pharm.D., BCCCP
Practice Area: Critical Care

Katherine O'Neal, Pharm.D., MBA, BCACP, CDE, BC-ADM, AE-C, CLS, FAADE
Practice Area: Internal Medicine Clinic

Melissa Medina, Ed.D., Dean
Practice Area: Director of residency teaching certificate programs

Shane Salimnejad, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Emergency Medicine

Mary Shreffler, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Inpatient.Outpatient - Family Medicine

Phu Nguyen, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Inpatient/Outpatient Solid Organ Transplant

Dillon Hayden, Pharm.D., BCPS
Practice Area: Gynecology/Oncology (Orientation preceptor)

Additional preceptors and learning experiences may be available based on resident interests.