Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
About our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center provides a 12-month ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, which is offered in conjunction with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy Graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy PGY1.Overview
This post-graduate experience provides comprehensive training in acute care, ambulatory care, long term care, drug information, drug-use policy development, practice management, teaching and research. The flexibility of the program allows residents to individualize a program to meet their specific needs and interests. Residents participate in inpatient pharmacy coverage on the weekends/early evenings (rotating schedule) and are responsible for completing a research project suitable for publication in a professional journal. This residency trains pharmacists for practice as clinician-educators providing advanced clinical services in academic health care settings or other organized health-system environments with substantive precepting and/or teaching responsibilities. They will be leaders and change agents at their practice site and for the profession. Many graduates continue with PGY2 specialty training before entering clinical practice or assuming a clinical faculty role. Our PGY1 residency has been ASHP-accredited since 1975 (originally under the facility name Medical College of Georgia Hospital and MCG Health, Inc.). We have almost 50 years of residency graduates who are making a difference every day!Program Purpose
ASHP-accredited postgraduate year one (PGY1) pharmacy residency programs build on the Doctor of Pharmacy education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training. Our residency graduates assume substantive precepting and/or teaching responsibilities, often as adjunct faculty or in clinical faculty roles. They will be leaders and change agents at their practice sites and for the profession.Program Mission
Each PGY1 graduate will:- Be a competent, confident and compassionate pharmacy practitioner who is an active member of the health care team
- Prevent, identify and resolve medication-related problems and assure safe, effective and appropriate drug therapy for patients across the continuum of care
- Demonstrate commitment to the pharmacy profession and serve as a role model
- Educate patients, students, and other health care professionals
- Contribute to the advancement of the practice of pharmacy in their practice setting
- Develop an attitude of self-evaluation and improvement
- Demonstrate marketable job skills in the changing health care environment
Learn More About Us
About Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center
Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center offers the most advanced comprehensive care to the people of Augusta and the surrounding areas. Our highly trained physicians, nurses and staff provide patient-centered, collaborative care from diagnosis through recovery. We provide cutting-edge technology and extensive expertise to create an unparalleled healthcare experience that delivers high-quality care for your medical, surgical, rehabilitative or emergency needs. Wellstar MCG Health has a Kidney Transplant Program and is designated as a Level I Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center.About Wellstar Health System
At Wellstar Health System, we make a difference every day by improving quality and access to healthcare in communities, big and small. With locations across metro Atlanta and beyond, Wellstar is one of the largest health systems in Georgia. Learn more about us.Learning Experiences
Core Requirements (one calendar month each)
- Ambulatory Care*
- Critical Care*
- Drug Information & Medication Policy
- Orientation
- Patient Care (Acute) Medicine*
- Pediatrics*
- Pharmacy Management
- Project Month
Electives (1 month each, not complete list)
- Academia
- Cardiology
- Clinical Research Investigational Drug Service
- Emergency Medicine (Adult or Pediatric)
- Geriatrics Long Term Care
- Hematology/Oncology
- Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
- Infectious Disease
- Neurology
- Oncology (Malignant Hematology)
- Pharmacy Informatics
- Population Health
- Precepting Patient Care +/- Academic with Stewardship Focus
Longitudinal
- Longitudinal Pharmacy Practice-Professional Core
- Research Project
- Staffing - Integrated Pharmacy Practice
- Teaching Longitudinal Core - UGA Graduate Certificate Program
Compensation & Benefits
Residents enjoy a competitive stipend and generous benefits package including accrual of twenty-four days paid-time-off (PTO) as well as professional leave days for meeting attendance, individualized subsidized insurance starting day 1, free parking, and matching contributions to a 403-b retirement plan. The program pays resident travel expenses and registration fees to attend the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, the Southeastern Residency Conference, and GSHP Resident Research Day. As graduate teaching assistants for UGA, residents receive a tuition waiver on graduate course instruction at the University of Georgia.Application Process
Applications are submitted electronically through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS). Deadline for receipt of applications is January 2; however, early application is encouraged. On-site interviews are offered to a limited number of applicants based on review of the completed application in PhORCAS. Applicants must possess a Pharm.D. degree from an ACPE-accredited college or school of pharmacy and must be eligible for licensure as a pharmacist in the State of Georgia. Application Material Includes:- Standardized application through PhORCAS (including letter of intent, CV, etc.)
- At least 3 professional references through PhORCAS
- Transcripts (only pharmacy school-related coursework must be submitted)
Program Materials
Program Director
Lucy C. Crosby, PharmD, BCPS
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director
Pharmacy Manager, Medication Policy and Compliance, Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center
[email protected] Lucy Crosby returned to Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center as the Lead Pharmacist for Medication Policy and Compliance in May 2019. She is a Doctor of Pharmacy Graduate of the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, completed a PGY1 residency in Augusta at Medical College of Georgia Health System (now Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center) and a PGY2 Drug Information Pharmacy Residency at the University of Kansas Hospital. She was previously a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Drug Information at Greenville Health System for over a decade, the Advanced Drug Information Course Coordinator and an Acute Care Therapeutics Elective lecturer for South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina in Columbia. At Greenville Health System, (now Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital), Lucy was the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director and and she began serving as a guest surveyor for ASHP PGY1 Residency accreditation site visits.
In her new roles at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center, Dr. Crosby provides support to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee and after serving as the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Coordinator for a year became the PGY1 Residency Program Director in July 2020.
Program Coordinator
Nathan Wayne, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Coordinator
Cardiology Pharmacist | Cardiovascular Intensive Care and Telemetry
[email protected] Nathan earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Georgia in 2017. He completed a PGY1 residency at UNC REX Healthcare in Raleigh, NC and received his teaching certificate from UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He then completed a PGY2 Cardiology Residency at the University of Kentucky HealthCare in Lexington, KY where he participated in the 24-hour in-house On Call Program.
Dr. Wayne came to Augusta as a Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist for the Cardiovascular Intensive Care and Telemetry units. His practice areas of interest include critical care cardiology, advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, anticoagulation, and hemodynamics. He precepts IPPE, APPE, PGY1 Pharmacy and PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy resident learning experiences. Nathan is a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). He is a co-producer for the CardioScripts podcast, a cardiology pharmacy podcast in collaboration with the ACCP Cardiology Research and Practice Network that reviews recent and classic cardiology literature.
As a member of the Residency Advisory Committee, he is passionate about mentorship and promoting wellness and the resilience of our trainees. In July 2021, Nathan became our PGY1 Residency Program Coordinator.
