Program overview
Your curriculum is customized to your individual interests and career aspirations. Our program is part of an integrated healthcare system offering a vast variety of opportunities in acute and ambulatory care.
Required core learning experiences:
- Orientation (6 weeks)
- Ambulatory Care Selective (4 weeks)
- Cardiology* (4 weeks)
- Critical Care* (4 weeks)
- Infectious Disease* (4 weeks)
- Internal Medicine* (4 weeks)
- Nephrology (2 weeks)
- Pediatrics Selective (4 weeks)
Required longitudinal learning experiences:
- Pharmacy Leadership & Practice Advancement (10 months; 1 day per month in addition to time required to complete assignments)
- Major Research Project (12 months; 1 hour per month in addition to time required to complete the project and 1 research and scholarship week)
- Self-Assessment & Personal Performance Improvement (12 months; 1 day per month in addition to time required to complete assignments)
- Staffing (12 months; 2 days [Saturday and Sunday] every other weekend and 2 4-hour shifts per 4-week rotation during the week from about 3:30 – 7:30 p.m.)
Elective learning experiences:
Each elective learning experience is about 4 weeks long; length may be modified based on resident interest and preceptor availability except where noted.
- Community Medicine
- Emergency Medicine*
- Emergency Medicine Concentrated
- Emergency Medicine Precepting
- Family Medicine (Ambulatory Care)
- Hematology
- Hepatology (Ambulatory Care)
- International Medical Missions
- Investigational Drug Services Concentrated
- Neonatal Critical Care
- Nutrition Support
- Nutrition Support Concentrated
- Oncology (Ambulatory Care)
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Pediatric Hospitalist
- Pediatric Precepting
- Pharmacy Administration (Management)
- Pharmacy Practice
- Preceptor Development in Internal Medicine
- Rheumatology (Ambulatory Care)
- Staffing Concentrated
- Stem Cell Transplant (Ambulatory Care)
- Trauma
Additional opportunities are available according to your interest level. The learning experiences indicated with an asterisk (*) may be revisited as an advanced elective learning experience. Core and elective learning experiences are traditionally four weeks in length, except for orientation, which is six weeks in duration and nephrology which is two weeks in duration.
Longitudinal learning activities
- Adult code, stroke and sepsis team participation
- Inpatient anticoagulation monitoring and consultations
- Inpatient pain management consultations
- Inpatient pharmacokinetic drug monitoring and consultations
- Participation in departmental and health system committee meetings
Program expectations and completion requirements:
- Within 60 days of the resident’s hire date:
- Possess a valid pharmacist license from the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy
- Within 120 days of the resident’s hire date:
- Complete pharmacokinetic, inpatient anticoagulation and code/stroke certifications
- As described in the Residency Manual:
- All evaluations completed in accordance with ASHP Accreditation Standard
- Completion of minimum staffing requirements
- Adherence to the organization’s attendance standards
- Completion of all R1 goals/objectives with a status of Achieved for Residency (ACHR) by the end of the residency. Completion of 100% of the remaining goals/objectives for the program with at least 75% of the objectives having a status of ACHR. All objectives must have a minimum status of Satisfactory Progress.
- Completion of major project and submission of written manuscript of completed project to the RPD.
- Completion of assigned projects (MUE, drug review, and journal club).
- Presentation of at least one major CME program.