Program Goal
The goal of the program is to develop residents who demonstrate excellent problem-solving and project management skills, achieve competency in information systems management, clinical decision support, and automation and technology within a health-care organization.

Residency Program
The residency is a one-year program, commencing on July 1. The majority of the resident’s responsibilities and activities will be within the Drug Utilization Management & Information Services unit of OHSU. The pharmacy informatics resident is required to complete a residency project with subsequent publication.

Areas of experience in pharmacy information will include, but are not limited to:
• Managing and communicating information in an interdisciplinary setting
• Development of clinical decision support tools for frontline end-users
• Management of automation and technology for medication use systems
• Data driven quality assurance/improvement projects
• OHSU Pharmacy Web page development and maintenance
• Data warehouse query and analysis
• Staff and train in the Drug Information/Drug Policy Service
• Medication Safety and Adverse Drug Reaction tracking, evaluating, and reporting
• Information technology industry experience

Pharmacy Practice Residency