Last updated: 09/11/2025
This residency will provide opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge into the provision of patient care that improves medication therapy for Veteran patients. Clinical education and advanced training in psychiatry will occur in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Residents will gain clinical skills and knowledge in pharmacotherapy, pharmacokinetics, and the pathophysiology of core psychiatric and neurologic disease states. Our program will guide residents to develop and exhibit characteristics of a practice leader. Residents who successfully complete this residency will possess competencies that qualify them for CPP and/or faculty roles and position them to be eligible for attainment of board certification in psychiatric pharmacy.
RRVAMC is located in Louisville, Kentucky, near downtown Louisville and overlooking the Ohio River, and is part of the VISN 9 VA Healthcare Network. The facility provides specialized hospital-based care with our 109-bed acute care facility as well as outpatient care to more than 150,000 Veterans residing in central and western Kentucky and in southern Indiana. The hospital is a tertiary care facility and provides a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as education and research. These services include medical, surgical, emergency and critical care, and home care/home based primary care; primary, secondary and tertiary cancer treatment; primary care; hospice and palliative care; women's healthcare; outpatient and inpatient mental health services, among others. Located within the medical center is the Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (SARRTP) facility which provides Veterans with an intensive substance abuse treatment program in a residential setting. In addition to our medical center at the main campus, we offer a number of services to our patients in eight outpatient healthcare centers located in the Kentuckiana area. A new hospital is being built and currently expected completion in 2026 and full functionality in 2027.
When: 10/9 2pm-4pm EST
Link: https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/veteransaffairs/j.php?MTID=m1e0ee4098ed813c343c5fd0986566a27
Instructions: There are two links for the virtual open house, 2-3pm EST https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/veteransaffairs/j.php?MTID=m1e0ee4098ed813c343c5fd0986566a27 and 3-4pm https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/veteransaffairs/j.php?MTID=mc72dcdffdd1ec7ffd2287a16e304adb4
