Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Programs

Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boise, ID

Last updated: 09/25/2025

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Maximum Number of Positions

• PGY1: 4
• PGY2 Psychiatry: 1
• PGY2 Neurology: 0

Program Details

• Primary Practice Site: VAMC
• PGY2 Required Practice Settings: Min. 20% Inpatient / Min. 20% Outpatient
• ASHP Accreditation Status: Yes (code: 83013)
• NMS Participant: Yes (code: 748666)
• Program Inception: 2016
• Application Deadline: 1/12/2026
• Starting Date: 6/29/2026
• Estimated Stipend: $51,974
• Financial Support for AAPP Annual Meeting: Varies/TBD
• Fringe Benefits: 13 days sick and annual leave, 11 paid holidays, time off for travel to selected professional meetings and seminars, ACLS certification, free parking, photocopying, shared office space including laptop/desk computers, telephones, and office supplies. Residency time counts towards federal retirement.
• Interviews Required: Yes
• Offers pre-commitment: Yes, internal to facility and to other VA facilities (VANEC)

Special Requirements for Application

• PharmD
• Completion of PGY1 Residency OR equivalent experience
• Eligible for state licensure
• College transcripts
• Curriculum vitae
• Letters of recommendation (3)

PGY2 Rotations offered

• Administration
• Adult inpatient psychiatry
• Adult outpatient psychiatry
• Geriatric psychiatry
• Neurology
• Pain management
• Specialty clinic
• Substance abuse
• Other: Primary Care Mental Health Integration; Rural PCMHI, Mental Health Academia, Pain Academia, Telepain, Telemental health, Academic Detailing, Leadership and Management

PGY2 Features

• PGY2 Staffing Component: Yes, Required
• PGY2 Teaching Component: Yes, Optional
• PGY2 Teaching Certificate Program: Yes, Optional
• PGY2 Other Features: he resident will have required experiences in inpatient psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry, and mental health residential rehabilitation. Multiple elective experiences are available, including substance use disorders, pharmacogenomics, neurology clinic, memory care clinic, primary care mental health integration, rural primary care mental health integration, tele-mental health, tele-pain, academia, program management/administration, pain clinic, and geriatric psychopharmacology. The PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy resident will manage patients with psychiatric and neurologic disorders longitudinally in a resident-facilitated clinic setting. Optional involvement in an interdisciplinary quality improvement project & curriculum provides unique experience working with an interprofessional team to create meaningful change at the facility. The resident will be offered opportunities to precept both PGY1 residents and IPPE/APPE pharmacy students when available.
• PGY2 Preceptors: 3 BCPPs, 3 Other Pharmacists, 0 Non-Pharmacists

PGY1 Elective Rotations offered

• Psychiatry

PGY1 Special Features

PGY1 residency with a primary care focus. An exceptionally flexible program that provides clinical pharmacy services to patients in ambulatory care, acute care, extended care, palliative, hospice, and home care in a teaching hospital by outstanding, well-qualified board certified clinical pharmacists and preceptors. Clinical pharmacy services are significant in the ambulatory clinics, inpatient areas, mental health clinics and in long term care areas. The resident will be offered opportunities to precept IPPE/APPE pharmacy students. Teaching certificate through Idaho State University is available. Local area "Resident Forum" collaboration between multiple residency sites meets monthly to engage in a teaching and learning curriculum. Please see website for more information.

Program Philosophy

Upon completion of this residency program, graduates will care for individuals with psychiatric and neurologic disorders, and will assume responsibility for patient-centered medication therapy. The psychiatric clinical pharmacy specialist will be able to function as an integral member of interdisciplinary teams, serving confidently and effectively as the psychiatric medication expert in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Graduates will be prepared for board certification in psychiatric pharmacy.