A growing number of pharmacy school graduates are extending their education to seek out residency and fellowship programs and the UMKC School of Pharmacy is leading the way.
More than a third of the 2020 graduating class from the UMKC School of Pharmacy will be entering a post-graduate residency program. And those who participated in the program successfully matched at a high rate.
This year’s match rate of 82.4% is the School of Pharmacy’s highest since it began tracking match numbers, School of Pharmacy Dean Russ Melchert, Ph.D., said.
Across the country, 63.1 percent of first-year graduating pharmacists participating in either the first or second phases of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) match program found a successful match.
At UMKC, 47 of the 57 who participated received a match. Of those who matched, 30 will remain in Missouri to continue their residency and five are headed to programs in Kansas and two to Nebraska. Students will also be spreading out across the United States, heading to states from Washington to New Jersey.
Four additional students placed in p0st-graduate programs outside the match. Two will be doing a drug information fellowship at UMKC. One will work with Tria Health, a prominent local health care company that works to improve health outcomes, and another will do a pharmacoepidemiology fellowship in the pharmaceutical industry.
The School of Pharmacy also had another 13 students from the Class of 2019 successfully match to second-year residency programs. Four more students were early commitments to PGY-2 programs and another placed in a second-year fellowship. Combined, the school’s second-year match rate of 92.8% far outpaced the national second-year match rate of 73.2%.
“Congratulations to all of our students and alumni for such an outstanding accomplishment,” Melchert said. “An 81% match rate is going to rank UMKC very, very high among schools of pharmacy for match.”
2020 SCHOOL OF PHARMACY MATCH RESULTS
PGY-I MATCHES
Residency Name (multiple matches) |
Residency City, State |
Program Description |
AdventHealth Orlando |
Orlando, FL |
PGY1 |
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission |
Shawnee Mission, KS |
PGY1 – Acute & Ambulatory Care |
Blessing Hospital |
Quincy, IL |
PGY1 |
CHI Health Creighton Univ Med Center-Bergan Mercy |
Omaha, NE |
PGY1 |
Chillicothe VAMC |
Chillicothe, OH |
PGY1 |
CoxHealth (3) |
Springfield, MO |
PGY1 |
Daiichi-Sankyo – pharmacoepidemiology fellowship |
Basking Ridge, NJ |
Fellowship |
Freeman Health System (2) |
Joplin, MO |
PGY1 |
Froedtert & MCW Froedtert Hospital |
Milwaukee, WI |
PGY1 (Non-Traditional 2 Year Program) |
JPS Health Network |
Fort Worth, TX |
PGY1 |
Mercy Hospital Joplin |
Joplin, MO |
PGY1 |
Mercy Hospital Springfield (2) |
Springfield, MO |
PGY1 |
Moda Health |
Portland, OR |
PGY1-Managed Care |
Nebraska Medicine |
Omaha, NE |
PGY1 |
North Kansas City Hospital (2) |
North Kansas City, MO |
PGY1 |
Olathe Medical Center, Inc. |
Olathe, KS |
PGY1 |
Saint Luke’s Hospital (3) |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY1 |
SSM Health – St. Clare Hospital |
Fenton, MO |
PGY1 |
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital |
St Louis, MO |
PGY1 |
SSM Health DePaul Hospital (2) |
Bridgeton, MO |
PGY1 |
Steward St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Boston |
Boston, MA |
PGY1 – International |
The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Baltimore, MD |
PGY1 – Traditional |
The University of Kansas Health System |
Lenexa, KS |
PGY1&2-Health System Admin & Leadership/Masters |
Tria Health |
Kansas City, MO |
Residency |
Truman Medical Center-Kansas City (3) |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY1 |
UMKC Drug Information Fellowship (2) |
Kansas City, MO |
Fellowship |
University of Kansas and Balls Food Stores |
Kansas City, KS |
PGY1-Community – Hen House |
University of Missouri Health Care (2) |
Columbia, MO |
PGY1 |
University of North Carolina |
Chapel Hill, NC |
PGY-1 Community Heath |
VA Medical Center – Kansas City (3) |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY1 |
VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System |
Reno, NV |
PGY1 |
VA St. Louis Health Care System |
St. Louis, MO |
PGY1 |
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System |
Nashville, TN |
PGY1 |
Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks |
Fayetteville, AR |
PGY1 |
Virginia Mason Medical Center |
Seattle, WA |
PGY1 |
Walgreens Specialty – Kansas City |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY1-Community |
Wesley Medical Center |
Wichita, KS |
PGY1 |
PGY-II |
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Residency Name |
Residency City, State |
Program Discription |
Barnes-Jewish Hospital |
Saint Louis, MO |
PGY2-Oncology |
Duke University Hospital |
Durham, NC |
PGY2-Emergency Medicine |
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin |
Milwaukee, WI |
PGY2-Ambulatory Care |
James Cancer Hosp/Solove Research/Ohio State Univ |
Columbus, OH |
PGY2-Oncology |
Mayo Clinic |
Rochester, MN |
PGY2-Clinical Pharmacogenomics |
Medical University of South Carolina-MUSCHealth |
Charleston, SC |
PGY2-Health System Administration & Leadership |
Saint Luke’s Hospital |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY2-Critical Care |
South Texas VA Health Care/Audie Murphy Mem Hosp |
San Antonio, TX |
PGY2- Psychiatry |
University of Houston College of Pharnmacy |
Houston, TX |
Academic Fellowship |
University of Illinois |
Chicago, IL |
PGY2-Oncology |
University of Kansas Health System |
Kansas City, KS |
PGY2-Critical Care |
University of Kentucky Medical Center |
Lexington, KY |
PGY2-Oncology |
University of North Carolina Medical Center |
Chapel Hill, NC |
PGY2-Cardiology |
University of Utah Health |
Salt Lake City, UT |
PGY2-Internal Medicine |
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System |
Nashville, TN |
PGY2-Psychiatric |
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System |
Nashville, TN |
PGY2-Cardiology |
Wesley Medical Center |
Wichita, KS |
PGY2-Critical Care |
Western Missouri Psychiatric Pharm Residency/UMKC |
Kansas City, MO |
PGY2-Psychiatric |