Pharmacy Operations
All residents have a yearlong operational staffing commitment designed to ensure that they gain experience and can function as a general pharmacist.
In addition, residents are tasked with accepting a leadership/supervisory role on weekend shifts to build a broader array of skills.
Multidisciplinary Education
Multidisciplinary Education is a longitudinal experience in which residents formulate presentations and other teaching tools to foster a layered learning model with students, PGY2 residents, preceptors and other disciplines.
Research Project
Research is a longitudinal learning experience designed to assist the resident in becoming proficient in all aspects of research. This includes learning the ethical and legal aspects of research as well as logical clinical research methodology. The resident will be responsible for demonstrating understanding of the above concepts and applying them to their own clinical research. The resident will be expected to express understanding of different types of research, including retrospective, prospective, observational and interventional protocols.
Each resident will select an impactful research topic in an area of interest. Residents will complete all steps in the research process, including CITI training, study design, IRB approval, data collection and analysis, culminated with a platform presentation at a regional conference in May and manuscript preparation.
Consult Service
Residents will participate in all clinical consultative services offered by the department of pharmacy, including but not limited to, geriatric trauma, pain management, transitions of care, polypharmacy and medication dosing consultations, and medication histories.
Formulary Management and Medication Use/Safety
Formulary Management and Medication Use/Safety is a required longitudinal experience aimed at providing the resident with a working understanding of how regulatory and legal standards and safety standards impact the manner in which pharmacy services and medication usage is structured in an institution.
Residents will become proficient in the processes involved with reviewing and making decisions related to formulary status, including restrictions for use and evaluation of usage of formulary medications.
Residents will evaluate usage of medications through MUE development and medication error review.
Professional Development
Residents participate in a variety of activities designed to build not only clinical skills, but also professional tools to become highly skilled pharmacists and ambassadors of the profession. Each resident's progress towards becoming a competent, respected professional, with their career goals in mind, is evaluated and self-evaluated throughout the year.
Residents will critically evaluate, and discuss with program leadership, their own progress towards reaching their professional goals and improving areas of weakness.