School of
Pharmacy

School of Pharmacy Posts Record Match Rate

photo collage of the pharmcy students holding a sign showing where they matched

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
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
Published: Apr 22, 2020
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