Welcome to The Luxe Pharmacist Podcast - Residency Series!

I’m so excited to be adding to The Residency Series with these Match episodes at such a pivotal time of the year for those pursing residency. 

If you don’t already know this about me, back in 2019 as a student I got the devastating news that I had not matched to a PGY1 residency in Phase I and thankfully I did end up matching to an incredible residency in Phase II. 

Because of my experience I am on a mission to break the stigma of what it means to not match and hopefully give you all some really great insights and advice that you can apply to your personal pharmacy journey. 

These match stories or rather un-matching stories were submitted by pharmacists with all different backgrounds, training and journeys but one common thread that no matter how twisted, broken or windy their paths…everything worked out just the way it was meant to happen in the end. 

These pharmacists are proof that there is never just one path to a certain career in pharmacy and I can’t wait to share these stories with you,  so here we go!

The Luxe Pharmacist Podcast is thrilled to welcome our guest Hugh! Hugh graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2019 with his Doctor of Pharmacy. During PGY1 residency applications as a student, like myself, Hugh did not match in Phase I. He persisted and ended up matching to an incredible PGY1 residency at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo NY. During PGY2 residency applications, a unaccredited PGY2 program catch Hugh's eye and he went for it! Hugh is now leading a new endocrinology clinic as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and his unaccredited PGY2 residency was the perfect stepping stone to this incredible opportunity.

Unaccredited PGY2 residencies are so different from unaccredited PGY1 programs and both Hugh and I believe no one talks about them enough! Join us on today's episode to discuss Hugh's journey, what exactly unaccredited PGY2 residencies are, how you can find them and so much more!

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