PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC provides an unmatched level of expert care in more than 30 areas of pediatric medicine. U.S. News & World Report consistently recognizes us as a Best Children’s Hospital in many specialties – the only children’s hospital in the region to make the list.

Levine Children's Hospital provides high level pediatric care with pediatric pharmacists incorporated into many areas, including:

• A dedicated pediatric emergency department
• Level IV NICU
• ECMO, Ventricular assist devices, and kidney, liver, and heart transplantation
• Intensive care with dedicated pediatric and cardiovascular ICUs
• Complex care
• Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Rehabilitation
• Multiple subspecialty services: nephrology, endocrinology, trauma, pediatric surgery, pulmonology, urology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, and more

Levine Children’s Hospital is a 241-bed pediatric inpatient hospital on campus with Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Cancer Institute, and many outpatient clinical services. At LCH, there is a 24-bed Pediatric ICU, 20-bed Cardiovascular ICU, 85-bed NICU, and dedicated units to hematology/oncology and rehabilitation. Pediatric pharmacists are incorporated throughout many of the services provided and have both a pediatric inpatient satellite pharmacy and a pediatric infusion pharmacy located onsite. 

Program Structure

The Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Children’s Hospital PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency program is a 52-week intensive learning program. Residents will spend the majority of the year in one-month rotations focused on inpatient and outpatient pediatric pharmacy. Rotations are primarily located within Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital and Medical Center Plaza Outpatient Services –but specific experiences may also involve traveling to other locations on campus, either Morehead Medical Plaza or Carolinas Medical Center. Elective opportunities exist to customize a resident’s individual interests and adjustments can be made to allow more time for experiences in preferred areas.

Additional experiences will include the design and completion of a residency research project and a medication use evaluation. The resident will also complete a patient care project, journal club(s), presentations to pharmacists and/or other healthcare practitioners, and will precept pharmacy student(s) and may co-precept residents.

Benefits

In addition to the full benefits of an Atrium Health employee, residents will be able to enroll in competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage plans. Residents will have standard PTO allotment for first- or second-year employees with requirements to work one major and one minor holiday. A travel allowance may be provided to attend the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Pediatric Pharmacy Association (PPA) annual conference. The resident is provided with office space containing an individual double-monitor desktop computer, phone, storage/filing space and a shared printer. In addition, the resident receives remote access to the hospital network, comprehensive drug information resources, three lab coats, and a laptop. The Department of Pharmacy also has an active continuing education program with opportunities offered on a routine basis.