Pharmacy
Emergency Medicine Pharmacy
The emergency medicine pharmacy team is excited to assist you throughout your residency experience!
Our team currently provides clinical pharmacy services daily, to help optimize patient care, serves as non-physician teaching faculty for the department of emergency medicine and collaborates on numerous clinical research projects.
Our emergency department pharmacists at the University of Kentucky respond to all traumas, codes and stroke alerts, and are available for any other clinical consults. Our hope is to complement your learning experience through enhancing provision of effective, safe and evidence-based medications practices.
We look forward to working with you during your training at the University of Kentucky!
Program Overview
Topic discussions are scheduled daily and allow for overviews of disease states along with more in-depth look at guidelines, evidence guiding therapies or recent publications.
Potential areas of focus include:
- Cardiology
- Critical care
- Geriatrics
- Infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship
- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Surgery
- Toxicology
- Trauma
Patient discussions happen frequently on shift as patient care issues arise. Opportunities to observe the pharmacist approach to drug related disease state management, reliable drug resources and basic medication preparation experiences are afforded to residents.