PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy at Los Angeles General Medical Center

Residents provide direct patient care in a variety of practice settings and work closely with interprofessional teams. Each resident also acts as primary practitioner for a caseload of patients for the entire year. The residency’s major training sites are at Los Angeles General Medical Center within the LA County Department of Health Services. LA DHS is the second largest public health agency in the country and LA General is a 700-bed academic, safety-net teaching hospital serving the medically underserved population of Los Angeles. Additional practice experiences include: Keck Medical Center of USC, VA West Los Angeles, LA LGBT Center, Housing for Health (Street Medicine), and Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH). LA General psychiatric hospital has 50 adult beds and 10 adolescent beds. LA General outpatient mental health services include integrated clinics within primary care, HIV, maternal health and others.

o Responsibilities of the resident include provision of clinical services, education to patients, staff, and providers. The PGY2 resident provides comprehensive medication management (CMM) to a caseload of patients at LA General outpatient services throughout the year and operates under their own collaborative practice agreement. The PGY2 resident collaborates with interdisciplinary staff to lead medication education groups.

The PGY2 is embedded into inpatient care for patients within Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, and Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry.