PGY2 - Infectious Diseases

Program Director Contact Information

Alison Blackman, PharmD, BCIDP
Clinical Manager – Infectious Diseases
Director – PGY2 Infectious Diseases

Marissa Rees, PharmD, BCIDP
Clinical Specialist – Infectious Diseases
Coordinator – PGY2 Infectious Diseases

All PGY2 Infectious Diseases interviews will be held in-person for the 2026-2027 recruitment year.

BMC's Infectious Diseases Services
Section of Infectious Disease / Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and BMC

Program Purpose

The BMC PGY2 ID pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in infectious diseases. The ID PGY2 residency provides the resident with opportunities to function independently as an infectious disease practitioner by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience with knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care that improves medication therapy. Residents who successfully complete the ASHP-accredited PGY2 ID pharmacy residency at BMC-Main Campus should possess competencies that qualify them for infectious diseases clinical pharmacist and/or faculty positions as well as position them to be eligible for attainment of board certification in the area of infectious diseases pharmacotherapy (BCIDP). 

Program Outcomes

1. Promote health improvement, wellness, and the prevention of infectious diseases
2. Optimize the outcomes of patients with an infectious disease by providing evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy as an integral member of an interdisciplinary team or as an independent clinician
3. Manage and improve anti-infective-use processes through implementing antimicrobial stewardship strategies and by being an active member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Subcommittee
4. Demonstrate excellence in the provision of educational activities for health care professionals focusing on optimizing anti-infective pharmacotherapy
5. Serve as an authoritative resource on the optimal use of medications used to treat individuals with infectious diseases
6. Demonstrate leadership and practice management skills
7. Conduct infectious disease pharmacy quality improvement projects and/or research

Core Rotations

Block Rotations:

• Orientation (4 weeks)
• Introduction to Infectious Diseases, Antibiotic Stewardship, and Microbiology (4 weeks)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship (AST) (4 weeks)
• ID Consult (7 weeks)
• Internal Medicine ID (5 weeks)
• AST Administration (4 weeks)
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases (3 weeks)
• COpAT Clinic & Antimicrobial Transitions of Care (3 weeks)

Longitudinal Rotations: 

• HIV Outpatient Clinic (longitudinal over 6 months)
• Elective ID Clinic (longitudinal over 3 months), choice of:
  • Travel Clinic
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic 

Elective Rotations (Choice of 3)

• Precepting (block rotation)
• HIV Clinic (block rotation)
• Internal Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
• Repeat a core rotation

Longitudinal Responsibilities

• Longitudinal Scholarship Projects (either IHI quality improvement project or research project)
  • Receive an IHI Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety
  • MSHP and MAD-ID poster abstract submission
  • Final presentation at the Antibiotic Stewardship Subcommittee
  • Final manuscript submission
• Monthly contribution to AST dashboard
• Once-weekly independent coverage of ID core rotation (as extender)
• Monthly antibiotic subcommittee meeting participation and attendance
  • Lead 1 Antibiotic Subcommittee Meeting
  • Complete Antibiotic Stewardship Subcommittee Annual Report
  • Review 2 P&T projects (ie. guidelines or formulary review)
• Resiliency training
• Longitudinal staffing

Teaching Responsibilities

• 1 ACPE-Accredited Continuing Education (CE) lecture (60 minutes)
• 1 Pharmacy Dept Morbidity and Mortality presentation (30 minutes)
• 1 Interprofessional Lecture (PA student lecture or ID fellow lecture) (60 minutes)
• 1 didactic lecture at Northeastern University Bouvé School of Pharmacy (60 minutes)
• 1 Boston ID pharmacy journal club
• MSHP Clinical Pearl Submission

Additional (Elective) Opportunities

• Journal club presentations
• Precepting PGY1 residents on an ID rotation
• Precepting students on an ID rotation
• Completion and presentation of Medication Use Evaluation (MUE)
• Teaching certificate
• Chief pharmacy resident leadership role
• Attendance at other national conferences (ie. ASHP Midyear, ID Week, etc)

Pharmacy Practice (Staffing) Responsibilities

• Weekends & evenings
  • One weekend every 3 weeks
  • Medicine evening shift (1:30-10:00 pm) (7 weeks total)
• Holiday assignments
  • 2 assigned holidays from the following (Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, or Martin Luther King Day)

Benefits

• Estimated Salary: $64,000 (2025-2026)
• Vacation time: 12 days
• Office space with computer
• Travel/CE allowance (~$2,800/year): Making a Difference in Infectious Disease (MAD-ID), opportunities for additional national specialty meetings
• $750 cafeteria allowance per academic year
• $1000 move/licensure bonus
• Lease guarantee available to minimize security deposit requirements
• Insurance Benefits: health (100% employer-paid option), dental, vision, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life insurance