Our PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program offers you both flexibility and progressive practice experiences. Our experienced and dedicated preceptors ensure competence, build confidence, and instill responsibility for drug therapy outcomes.
This program emphasizes providing rational and cost-effective drug therapy in a community teaching hospital through participation in interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
Our pharmacy services include 24-hour automated and computerized drug distribution, featuring:
- unit-dose
- IV admixture
- computerized-provider order entry
- barcode technology
- medication carousels
- automated dispensing cabinets
You’ll also gain experience with:
- multidisciplinary rounding and decentralized clinical services
- renal adjustment and dosing protocols
- pharmacokinetic dosing and monitoring
- specialized clinical consult services including anticoagulation management, total parenteral nutrition (TPN) support and pain management
Accreditation
Our program has been accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) since its inception in 1999.
Purpose
Our PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program builds on your Doctor of Pharmacy Education and prepares you to be:
- responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions
- eligible for board certification
- eligible for PGY-2 pharmacy residency training
As a resident, you’ll encounter a wide variety of patient care experiences. Our goal is to provide you with practice opportunities in acute and ambulatory patient care, drug information and management.
Our program also provides advanced training in clinical services including:
- pharmacokinetics
- ambulatory care
- critical care
- infectious disease
- family medicine
- drug information
You’ll develop your skills while providing consultations in areas of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and disease state management. You’ll also conduct educational programs for the pharmacy staff and students, nurses and providers.
Successful completion
PGY-1 pharmacy residents will be awarded a residency certificate with successful completion of requirements in the following areas:
- achievement of ASHP designated competency areas:
- patient care
- advancing practice and improving patient care
- leadership
- management
- teaching
- professionalism
- timely licensure
- staffing requirements
- patient care
- presentations and projects
- attendance and service
Rotation summary
Required:
- distributive orientation (2 weeks)
- consult orientation (6 weeks)
- infectious disease/antimicrobial stewardship (4 weeks)
- family medicine (4 weeks)
- internal medicine (4 weeks)
- medical ICU or trauma surgical ICU (4 weeks)
- emergency medicine (4 weeks)
- administrative (4 weeks)
Required longitudinal rotations:
- distributive (every fourth weekend and one 5-hour evening shift a week)
- drug information
- research (ASHP poster, Eastern States Conference and WellSpan Discovery Day)
- ambulatory care (16 weeks)
Electives (in addition to any of the required rotations):
- cardiology
- pain management
- oncology
- neonatal ICU
- behavioral health
- other medical subspecialties by special arrangement
