Residency Programs
Pharmacy Practice Residency Program
Curriculum
Overall description:
There are ten required rotations, including: central pharmacy (eight weeks), adult critical care (four weeks), adult medicine/surgery (four weeks), adult transplantation medicine (four weeks), Family Practice medicine inpatient care (four weeks), pediatric medicine (four weeks), pediatric critical care (four weeks), pediatric hematology/oncology (four weeks), neonatology (four weeks), and pharmacy administration/research (8 weeks).
There is one elective rotation. The options include home care (four weeks), pediatric cardiology (four weeks), and patient safety and quality improvement (four weeks). Additionally, one of the required rotations may be repeated with a different focus. Other elective rotations may become available as pharmacy services are expanded.
During their rotations, residents will have operational and clinical responsibilities for patients in their assigned areas. Besides reviewing and entering orders for their patients, residents will be involved with providing drug information, performing drug regimen reviews, monitoring their patients’ responses to drug therapy, writing patient care notes, making patient care rounds with the medical team, verifying their patients’ home and discharge medications, and counseling their patients. They will also assist with patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.
Residents will participate in journal club, case conferences, teaching rounds, and in-services for pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff. Additionally, they will be involved with a variety of clinical pharmacy management activities (e.g. formulary management, protocol development, and medication error and adverse drug reaction reporting), and pharmacy operations management activities (e.g. policy and procedure development, budget preparation, and quality control). They will also assist with pharmacy student education.
Learn more about each area of our curriculum by accessing the following links.
