Infectious Diseases PGY-2 Residency
We are a PGY-2 ACPE accredited program offering one position for the 2025 Match cycle.
This program is primarily focused on the resident becoming a competent infectious diseases clinician. This is accomplished by rounding with adult and pediatric infectious diseases consult services and supporting an antimicrobial stewardship service that serves a broad population spanning four affiliated hospitals, seven intensive care units, a federally recognized comprehensive cancer center, a world-leading transplant center, an outpatient HIV clinic, and a home infusion center.
Apply to our programClinical training at UW prepares residents for diverse practice settings.
Residents in our program deliver exceptional infectious diseases care to a high acuity and medically complex patient population at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics — ranked #1 in Wisconsin for 12 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence
- Established antimicrobial stewardship system with IT support
- Four infectious diseases consult services caring for immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients
- Experience in HIV/ID/OPAT clinic
- Decentralized clinical staffing with direct patient care and rounding with medical teams
- Excellent relationships with physicians and other health care providers
- Flexibility to tailor program to meet interests and needs
- Involvement with UW School of Pharmacy didactic teaching and preceptorship of students
Why UW?
"I chose to continue my training at UW Health because the residency program is well established and provides vast opportunities to explore different areas of infectious diseases pharmacy practice. ID pharmacists at UW Health are involved at all levels of antimicrobial stewardship and review unique infections in complex patient populations. There are limitless opportunities to be involved with clinical research, qualitative projects, and academia thanks to the relationships the ID pharmacy team has built with professional organizations and the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy. UW Health provides comprehensive clinical training to ensure residents are set up for success upon program completion."
Required Rotations
Clinical:
- Immunocompetent Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Immunocompromised Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Immunocompetent Infectious Diseases Consults
- Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases Consults
- Microbiology Lab Experience (2 weeks)
- Precepting
- Capstone Advanced Practice Experience (2 weeks)
4 week rotations unless specified
Longitudinal:
- HIV/ID Clinic
- Clinical Practice Leadership and Administration
- Major Research Project
Elective Rotations
- OPAT – UW Care Direct (2 weeks)
- Medical/Surgical ICU
- Cardiac ICU
- Advanced Pulmonary
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant
- Emergency Medicine
- Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases Consult (2 weeks), Internal Medicine, ICU)
- CMV Clinic (2 weeks)
- Academia
- Research
Residency Program Director
Megan Wimmer
What makes UW Health’s Infectious Diseases Residency Program unique?
The Infectious Diseases residency program at UW Health prepares the resident to take on all the challenges and opportunities associated with being an infectious diseases specialist. The resident rounds with four ID consult teams, conducts research and quality improvement projects, and leads the antimicrobial stewardship program.
What goals do you have for residents who complete your residency program?
Residents who complete the PGY2 ID program at UW Health are well-rounded and competent ID practitioners. They are able to manage challenging patient cases, lead an antimicrobial stewardship program, perform practice changing research, and educate future infectious diseases pharmacists.
What is your best advice for prospective residency candidates?
Residency recruitment season is a time to shine. Highlight your strengths to potential programs. It is also a time to reflect on your weaknesses. Seek out a program that helps addresses your opportunities to improve and enhances your strengths!
Contact Information
Megan Wimmer, PharmD, BCIDP
Clinical Pharmacist - Infectious Diseases
PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Director
UW Health Department of Pharmacy
600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792
(608) 263-1290 | MWimmer@uwhealth.org
Courtney Baus, PharmD, BCIDP
Clinical Pharmacist - Infectious Diseases
PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Coordinator
UW Health Department of Pharmacy
600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792
(608) 263-1290 | CBaus@uwhealth.org
Clinical Activities
- Antimicrobial patient care review, prospective audits, and feedback
- Antimicrobial stewardship to include antibiograms, antimicrobial use and resistance reporting, and gap analysis
- Rounding with infectious diseases consult teams
- Vancomycin and aminoglycoside dosing and TDM optimization through infectious diseases pharmacist consult
- Oversee restricted antimicrobial use
- Perform literature reviews and drug information questions
- Conduct quality improvement projects
- Create and update infectious diseases-related guidelines and protocols
- Investigate medication error reports and adverse drug reactions
- Committee membership on Antimicrobial Stewardship, Ambulatory Care Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Antimicrobial Use P&T
Teaching Opportunities
- Clinical instructor status at UW School of Pharmacy
- Precept fourth year pharmacy students on elective infectious diseases clinical rotation
- Help precept pharmacist residents on infectious diseases elective rotation
- Teaching certificate program through UW School of Pharmacy
Presentation Experiences
- Pharmacy Grand Rounds
- Microbiology Grand Rounds
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Meetings
- Pharmacy Department Staff Meetings
- UW School of Pharmacy Lectures
- Infectious Diseases MD Fellows Educational Conferences
- Major research project to be presented at a national conference
Stipend/Benefits
Travel
Support to attend one national conference
- Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases (MAD-ID) National Conference
AND choice of one local conference
- Great Lakes Pharmacy Residents Conference OR
- Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Educational Conference
UW School of Pharmacy
Pharmacy Practice Model and Staffing
Our department works collaboratively with infectious disease physicians and fellows, School of Pharmacy faculty, the Clinical Laboratory Department and Infection Control Division to optimize management of complex infectious diseases. Our department leads innovative approaches to pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic target based therapeutics in hospitalized patients. Decentral pharmacists provide care through interdisciplinary rounds, clinical monitoring, medication order review, admission histories, discharge teaching and care coordination, code and stroke response teams, drug information resource and medication use stewardship. The resident will staff as a decentral pharmacist over the course of the residency year. On average, the resident will staff 24 hours every two weeks, including every other weekend.
Ready to Join our Resident Class?
Apply Now Application Deadline: Jan 6th, 2025Program Start Date: Jul 7th, 2025