Facilities
St. Mary's Hospital
Rotation schedule
The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program is a 12-month program with an emphasis in acute care. The rotation schedule will be developed based on several factors, including resident interest areas, resident career goals, and preceptor availability.
Required monthly learning experiences (approximately 5 weeks):
Orientation
Internal Medicine
Critical Care
Pharmacy Administration
Pediatrics
Required longitudinal learning experiences:
Chief Resident
Education/Teaching and Learning Certificate
Medication-Use Safety and Policy
Research
Staffing
Elective learning experiences:
Advanced Critical Care
Advanced Internal Medicine
Ambulatory Care
Anticoagulation Clinic
Behavioral Health
Emergency Medicine
Medication Safety
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Oncology Ambulatory Care
Sterile Compounding
Other elective learning experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability
Inpatient Pharmacy Staffing
Residents provide inpatient pharmacy coverage every third weekend and one additional weekday shift per three-week period. Each resident is scheduled to staff one winter holiday (Thanksgiving or Christmas) and one summer holiday (Memorial Day or Labor Day) per year. Residents staff primarily in the main pharmacy or IV room to gain a working knowledge of hospital pharmacy operations.
Research and Education
The residency program utilizes a 'flipped' project model for its research component. Upon starting the residency year, incoming residents are assigned a research project that has already undergone Bon Secours Mercy Health Institutional Review Board (IRB) review. Residents begin their work directly in the data collection phase, progressing to analysis and finalizing the results by December. In the second half of the residency year, residents prepare their project results for publication while simultaneously proposing and developing a new project to be completed by the next residency class.
Residents also gain experience in project management and education through completing a medication use evaluation, developing and presenting a one-hour continuing education program for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, and providing in-services for pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
Additionally, residents complete the Teaching and Learning Certificate Program that is offered through the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy. The goal of this program is to prepare pharmacy residents for an educator role in both the experiential and didactic setting.