Kosair Children’s Hospital was established in 1938 as the first hospital in Kentucky dedicated to the care of children. It remains the sole stand-alone children’s hospital in the commonwealth of Kentucky and is affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Kosair Children’s Hospital provides cutting edge medical services in a child-friendly environment.

This 263-bed institution offers an abundance of services, including solid organ transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, pediatric and neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, infectious disease services, pulmonology, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery and a trauma center/emergency department. Kosair Children’s Hospital is home to a 103-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a 26-bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Research opportunities are abundant, as the residents have the opportunity to become involved in the Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit (PPRU). Kosair Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive, compassionate care to children from Kentucky, Indiana and beyond.

The pharmacy practice residency (PGY-1) is a one-year experience that offers extensive exposure to all aspects of pediatric pharmaceutical care. The resident will be responsible for providing direct patient care by daily participation in multidisciplinary rounds and patient counseling. Hospitalwide and department policy development opportunities take the form of medication-use evaluations, staff inservices, and pharmacy and therapeutics committee meeting attendance.

In July 2011, Kosair Children’s Hospital Pharmacy initiated a specialty residency (PGY-2) in critical care. The one-year experience offers extensive exposure to all aspects of pediatric critical care. The resident will be responsible for providing direct patient care by daily participation in multidisciplinary rounds and participation in trauma resuscitations in the emergency room.

Daily activities for all residents include, but are not limited to, participation in multidisciplinary rounds, providing drug information to other health care professionals, pharmacokinetic consults, nutritional evaluations, medication safety management, counseling of patients and patients’ caregivers, and topic and/or patient discussions with pharmacists.