Curriculum Information

The PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program is designed to provide exposure to all aspects of pharmacy practice while allowing the resident to customize the residency to desired practice areas.

Required Core Learning Experiences:

• Orientation & Introduction to Pharmacy Practice
• Pharmacy Practice
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Critical Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Ambulatory Medicine (Selective – Choose one)
  • Anticoagulation Clinic
  • Primary Care
• Internal Medicine (Selective – Choose one)
  • Cardiac Services
  • Pulmonary Service
  • Surgery/Pain Management Services

Elective Learning Experiences (Choose two):

• Anticoagulation Clinic (Ambulatory)
• Primary Care (Ambulatory)
• Oncology (Ambulatory)
• Pharmacy Informatics
• Pharmacy Administration
• Emergency Medicine 2
• Critical Care 2

Longitudinal Learning Experiences

Pharmacy Practice Management (12 months)

• Chief Resident (12 weeks)
  • Facilitates Resident Development Meeting (RDM)
  • Facilitates journal club and case presentations
  • Facilitates resident meetings
  • Serves as resident liaison
• Pharmacy Operations (12 weeks)
  • Pharmacy staff education (in-service or formal education on assigned topic)
  • Management of drug shortages
  • Departmental safety and metrics through a tiered huddle system
• Medication Safety (12 weeks)
  • Review components of the medication use system to improve medication safety, operational workflow, pharmacy services, etc.
  • Administrative and clinical support for Medication Safety Committee
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics (12 weeks)
  • Drug Use Policy/Regulatory
  • Prepare/update and present a drug class review, drug monograph, treatment guidelines, SBAR, policy or protocol
  • Act as project lead for P and T implementation work group items
  • Educate department on new initiatives/medications/processes resulting from P and T Committee

Pharmacy Leadership (12 months)

Leadership (12 months)

• Educational Activities (12 months)
  • Pharmacy leadership topics (5 weeks)
  • Continuing education presentation
  • Midyear Clinical Meeting Poster Presentation
  • New York State Council of Health Systems Pharmacists Annual Assembly – Residency Research Practice Forum Platform Presentation
  • Trinity Health Resident Research Platform Presentation
• Project – Research/Practice Improvement (12 months)
  • Project design and research
  • Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
  • Medication Use Evaluation
  • Project manuscript

Inpatient Central Distribution and Clinical Services

• Residents are scheduled to staff one weekend/month (two consecutive eight-hour shifts)
• Residents are scheduled to cover clinical services one weekend day/month (four-hour shift)
• One holiday (eight-hour shift)

— Staffing responsibilities are subject to change based on the needs of the department. —