Learning Experiences

Required Rotations

• Administration
• Ambulatory Clinic
• Critical Care
• Drug Information
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Medical Alert Response
• Medication Therapy Management
• Pharmacy Informatics
• Pharmacy Practice
• Surgical

Elective Rotations (residents select three)

• Advanced Administration
• Advanced Infectious Diseases
• Advanced Oncology
• Cardiac Critical Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Oncology

Residency Activities

Patient-focused activities

• Admission histories
• Adverse drug event reporting and investigation of medication error reports
• Cardiac arrest response
• Daily rounds with the healthcare team
• Discharge counseling
• Drug information
• Medication education
• Patient monitoring and documentation
• Pharmacy consults (pharmacokinetics, warfarin, etc.)
• Precepting Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) students
• Stroke alert response

Staffing

• Longitudinal experience for the entirety of the residency year
• Every third weekend
• One major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s)
• Duty Hours: follows American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) Duty-Hour Requirements for Pharmacy Residencies

Projects

Completion of one major research project that is presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition and a regional pharmacy resident conference.

Other activities

• One hour presentation at Grand Rounds
• Participation in hospital committees including Pharmacy and Therapeutics
• Case presentations, in-services, journal clubs, medication use evaluations
• Teaching certificate