PGY1/PGY2 Required Experiences

Required PGY1 rotation experiences

  • Health-System Orientation (4 weeks)
  • Foundations (3 weeks)
  • General Clinical (Medicine, Surgery, Critical Care, Cardiology, or Pediatrics)
  • Drug Policy/Medication Safety (2 weeks)
  • Pharmacy Administration (4 weeks)
  • Informatics (2 weeks)
  • Non-Oncology Acute Care (4 weeks)
  • Intensive Care Unit (5 weeks)
  • ACLS+/- PALS and Code Blue Response (4 weeks code pager +/- 1 mock code)
  • Ambulatory care (3 weeks)

Required PGY1 longitudinal experiences

  • Teaching Certificate Participation (Lecture x 1 hour, Facilitation x 4 hour)
  • Project Management via residency research project
  • Leadership
  • Staffing experience
  • Pharmacy Grand Rounds (1 JC pearl, 1 case, 1 ACPE CE)
  • Teaching Certificate Program (highly encouraged)
  • Participation in at least one professional pharmacy organization

Required PGY2 rotation experiences

  • HSPAL Orientation (2 weeks)
  • Staffing Training (4 weeks)
  • Inpatient Operations (5 weeks)
  • Clinical Operations (5 weeks)
  • Ambulatory Clinical and Operations (6 weeks)
  • Supply Chain with completion of 340B University (4 weeks)
  • Outpatient Operations (3 weeks)
  • Finance (4 weeks)
  • Business Intelligence (3 weeks)
  • Senior Executive Leadership (CPO) (4 weeks)Management/Strategy (8 weeks)
  • Information Management/Medication
  • Specialty/Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) (4 weeks)
  • Human Resources/Personnel Management/Administrator on Call (Longitudinal)

Required PGY2 longitudinal experiences

  • Residency Major Project
  • Chief Resident (52 weeks)
  • P3 Intern Program Coordinator (52 weeks)
  • Leadership Foundations (52 weeks)
    • Participate in at least one professional pharmacy organization
    • National and regional professional meetings (Vizient, ASHP Midyear, ASHP Leaders,
      Northwestern States)
    • Bi-Weekly meetings with senior pharmacy leadership team, including CPO
  • Compliance (52 weeks)
  • Medication Safety (52 weeks)
  • Service Commitment (320 hours total)
    • Administrator on call (Inpatient and Ambulatory); 8 weeks (128 hours)
    • Staffing Inpatient Central for 12 weekends (192 weekend hours)
    • Monthly department newsletter (Pharmacy Pulse)
  • Complete a two-year Master of Business Administration or Master of Public Health Degree

*Residents are required to design, conduct and evaluate a major project related to an aspect of pharmacy practice during the residency year. The resident's' major project may have a clinical, research or practice management focus. The residency preceptor team will assist the resident in choosing their project from a provided list or from a resident-generated idea list. The major project for the residency programs has oversight by the Pharmacy Research Committee, which reports to the Residency Advisory Committee. Additional experiences with the Research Pharmacy Service are available to residents interested in research experience.