TTUHSC
Residency Advisory Council Meeting
Thursday, September 13, 2007 12-1pm
MINUTES
Attendees:
Sara Brouse
Monica Mathys
Phillip Lai
Cynthia Foslien-Nash
Charles Seifert
Amie Blaszczyk
Krystal Edwards
Sherry Luedtke
Ellen Patterson-Curley
A brief conference call after meeting was conducted between the following persons that were not
able to be in attendance at the originally scheduled meeting due to other commitments and the
phone service being out at the Abilene School of Pharmacy Campus:
Conference Call Attendees: Sara Brouse - Roland Patry, Ann Canales, and Pam Ochoa
Items at the Meeting were discussed in the following order:
Midyear recruitment plans
A Showcase Booth has been reserved at Midyear, date and time have not been confirmed
PPS ads have not been placed, but Dr. Brouse is working on them to be sent out this week
Salary Ranges for Residents during 2008/09:
• PGY1 and 1st year PGY2 - $35,000
• PGY2 2nd year Tech Residents - $36,500
(Sara would like to request to incrementally increase the resident’s salary on an annual basis,
because most residents are currently being paid $40,000, especially in the DFW area.)
• Same benefits as 2007/08 listed below:
o Healthcare starting October 1, 2008 (90 days after July 1st)
o 10 days of vacation
o 3 days of holiday and personal leave
o 10 days of professional leave
TTUHSC will also pay for the following items:
o Labcoats, pagers, business cards, malpractice insurance and up to $1,100
travel per year for each resident.
**The deadline for all Resident Applications both Practice and Specialty Residency
Programs for 2008/09 has been changed to January 6, 2008.**
Everyone will need to send their changes for online TTUHSC Residency web pages for
their programs for 2008/09 by email before the end of September to
ellen.patterson@ttuhsc.edu.
Sara is in the process of updating pictures and the application forms on the TTUHSC SOP
Resident website for 2008/09 programs and they will be finished shortly.
- Reminder – all ACCP & ASHP online residency directory profiles will need to be updated
ASAP or they will be cancelled. Please email Karon Williams at kwilliams@ashp.org
for changes and updates to be made for ASHP online residency directories. ACCP profiles can
be modified by yourself with your own username/password.
For new programs, you can add an ACCP Residency listing yourself but you will have to
wait until you get pre-candidate status to add a listing with ASHP.
- Resident Brochures need to have changes submitted to ellen.patterson@ttuhsc.edu by
Friday, October 5, 2007 for printing prior to upcoming ACCP, Career Fair and ASHP
meetings.
Recruitment Update-Verification of Residency Positions Recruiting for 2008/09:
Lubbock:
3 Pharmacy Practice Residents, 2 at Covenant, 1 at UMC
2 Pharmacotherapy Residents (1 PGY1, 1 PGY2)
1 Community Care
Amarillo
1 PGY2 Pediatrics
2 PGY2 Pharmacotherapy (Joseph Alaimo and Chris Tawwater – 2nd year)
1 PGY1 Pharmacotherapy
1 Community Care
DFW
1 Critical Care
1 Hematology/Oncology
1 PGY1 Pharmacotherapy
1 Ambulatory Care
1 PGY2 Psychiatry (new w/TTUHSC Parkland) (funding for ½ FTE) (Monica Mathys-program
director)
1 PGY2 Geriatrics (new) (currently funded thru VA; Amie Blaszczyk-program director)
Harris Methodist Fort Worth
1 PGY1 Pharmacotherapy (?)
Presbyterian Hospital
2 PGY1 Pharmacy Practice
VA
5 PGY1 Pharmacy Practice
Abilene
1 PGY1 Pharmacotherapy (Ann Canales – Program Director for 2008/09)
1 PGY1 Pharmacy Practice (Pam Ochoa – Program Director for 2008/09)
(Abilene residents are paid out of funds from Abilene Budget at the current time. Funding to pay
for residents at the Abilene Campus for 2010 and 2011 will need to be decided at a later date but
some will be through GME pass through funding).
Currently there is funding in the 2008/09 budget for 13 FTE Residents across three campuses. In
the future (2009/10 and 2010/11) guidelines will need to be put in place due to the competition
for residency positions as these increase will through the years.
Comments were made that discussions are in the Strategic Plan 2008-10 for resident programs to
have program directors at BSA, NWTH and the VAMC in Amarillo, but this will not happen for
2008/09, it will need to be addressed for 2009/10 and 2010/11. There also will need to be
discussion on new program directors for upcoming residents at the Amarillo Campus so that
more programs can be filled, since currently very few are filled on an annual basis. Sherry also
discussed that as the student numbers increase at the campuses and the new faculty being hired
does not, that the residents are needed at all the campuses, especially in Amarillo to fill the gap
this will leave and to keep adjunct faculty payment costs down for the annual budget.
Sherry also discussed as to whether the different division heads (Medicine, Primary Care, etc.),
should be the directors for the residents in their programs at each campus to even out the
workload and allow current faculty to devote more time to their current students and duties.
Teaching Certificate Program Update
Dean Nelson would like to have the following changes made to the current Teaching Certificate
for Residents Program:
• more defined guidelines established and enforced for Resident Teaching Programs for
2007/08-currently curriculum is not
• specific competencies (teaching skills and knowledge)
• formal assessment of those competencies by the mentor (generic form for evaluation)
• an observation and documentation of strengths and deficiencies while the resident is
actually teaching, etc.
• standardization for the number of lectures to present, case studies, etc. so any one
graduate has approximately the same number of experiences and the same depth
(there will be differences in each program, but there should not be broad differences).
• Residents in this program should be involved in planning of clerkship experiences,
lectures, etc.
• Anyone that is a faculty preceptor (or an adjunct preceptor, if any) should be oriented
to the program and involved in the design.
Items discussed by attendees at the meeting on this subject:
• Guidelines need to be set for how often the residents are evaluated, monthly,
quarterly, or after each semester.
• Who is going to lectures that residents are giving and can the program director or
someone from faculty is there to critique their presentations?
• Should the division heads be setting the goals and objectives for residents in their
programs?
• Standardization of time for lectures needs to be set (30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, etc.)
• Most attendees agreed that all residents need to be evaluated on lectures and teaching
since no matter what field they go into after program they will need the experience
and knowledge gained from these events.
• The requirement of 1 lecture presentation by each resident needs to be increased and
opened up to presentations at their residency hospital/clinic site and these will be
accepted for evaluation purposes (nurses, physicians, resident grand rounds, other
healthcare professionals, professional organizations). This will allow residents to give
more lectures formally throughout the year and get experience teaching to different
audiences. Currently, there is not room in the curriculum for all residents to give
multiple lectures.
Case Studies Discussion for Resident Assignments:
• Since the Residents are not allowed to be officially listed on the class rosters as
course team leaders, when residents lead their own groups a faculty mentor needs to
sit in and evaluate and be there for questions and support as needed, but have the
resident run the Case Studies meetings (only for PGY2 residents in their second year
with TTUHSC) so that an evaluation process can occur.
• Also, Chuck suggested pairing up the residents that are past students of Texas Tech
and have already been exposed to Case Studies and the requirements with the new
faculty, so they can save time and effort in the learning process for both.
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This is the first time that there has not been enough residents to cover all the case
studies groups for each campus.
Guidelines are being set as to which faculty member will have residents to mentor for
Case Studies. Sara discussed proposed criteria for assigning residents to case studies
as discussed at and after previous RAC meeting.
Faculty members should have the option to mentor their resident during Case Studies
during at least one semester if not two if needed to help out with their workload. It
was discussed that faculty assigned two semesters of Case Studies should also have a
resident ________ (unsure of word on notes) because handling Case Studies without
a resident can be a little overwhelming at times with other duties that need to be done
on a daily basis (site, students, and faculty meetings).
May also want to consider assigning residents to topics and/or projects that are in
their area of interests too to develop their knowledge base during resident training.
This will allow the resident to learn and develop their own style of teaching while at
the same time learning their mentor’s too.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00pm.
Just a few thoughts/comments to consider from Sherry Luedtke:
a) Career Fair- will we have someone(s) able to attend the Career Fair in Lubbock
th
(Nov 9 ) to represent the residency programs?
Chuck, Craig and Mac volunteered as faculty to attend.
Eden Camarines will work on a list of residents who may be able to attend.
b) Sherry is inviting other residency programs to showcase at our Career Fair – have we thought
about contacting other Schools in the area about attending their Career Fairs?
Or at least send out a summary mailing to them to send to their students and/or post?
c) What about developing both 1) resident awards (since we have enough residents . . .sort of
like UK Sara) 2) Residency Preceptor Awards
To be discussed at future RAC meeting and on next agenda.
d) What are the thoughts on having a residency dinner for Texas Tech residents in conjunction
with ALCALDE/TSHP? A way to get them all together???
To be discussed at future RAC meeting and on next agenda.
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 12-1pm by
healthnet to all campuses.