Dear Clinical Pharmacy Manager,
I'm applying for the Clinical Pharmacist position in the MICU at UCSF Medical Center. I'm a California-licensed pharmacist (#RPH-45678, active since 2020) with a PharmD from University of Michigan and BCPS since 2022. For the last three years I've been a clinical pharmacist at a 540-bed tertiary academic medical center covering 8-hour shifts in a 24-bed MICU with a 1:4 pharmacist-to-physician consult ratio — a setting that closely mirrors UCSF's MICU profile.
In that role I perform 140+ pharmacokinetic consults per month in Epic Willow (vancomycin AUC-guided dosing, aminoglycoside monitoring, DOAC dose-adjustment for renal replacement therapy), and I led an antimicrobial stewardship initiative across three inpatient units that moved average broad-spectrum antibiotic days-of-therapy from 6.4 to 4.1 over 9 months — saving an estimated $340k/year in drug costs. I've precepted three PGY-1 residents through critical-care rotations and been active on the Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee since 2023.
UCSF's critical-care pharmacy team and the institution's public commitment to antimicrobial stewardship are the specific reasons I'm making this move. I'd be especially interested in contributing to the stewardship program and to preceptorship of PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents, where my current work transfers cleanly.
I'd welcome a conversation about the team's structure and where you'd like a new clinical pharmacist to focus in year one. I'm happy to provide reference letters from my current Clinical Coordinator and ID-pharmacist collaborator.
Sincerely, Jamie Park, PharmD, BCPS California Pharmacist License #RPH-45678
