*The main pharmacy operations experience is comprised of a 4 hour main pharmacy shift weekly and clinical consult service (pharmacokinetic and warfarin dosing) every third weekend. Program highlights:
- Innovative pharmacy practice with greater than 80% of pharmacists embedded within a multidisciplinary team
- Strong collaborative practice, with pharmacy recognized as the highest rated clinical department on the Press Ganey physician survey
- We support the completion of a Teaching Certificate Program and allow our residents the opportunity to precept IPPE or APPE students from local schools of pharmacy
- Opportunities to attend and present research at local, state, and national conferences
- Our residents attend the Midyear Conference hosted by ASHP and the Residency Research and Practice Forum hosted by NYSCHP annually
- The Department of Pharmacy Services provides care to inpatients on a 24 hour basis, 7 days a week with the vision/goals of providing safe and effective pharmaceutical care to all patients. The pharmacy employs an integrated practice model with 5 days a week decentralized services to acute care nursing units and 7 day a week service to both the Emergency Room and Intensive Care Units.
- St. Joseph’s Health is a non-profit, 451-bed community teaching hospital and health care network providing services to patients from Onondaga and 15 surrounding counties. St. Joseph’s Health offers general medical/surgical care, medical intensive care, surgical intensive care, labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, emergency services, orthopedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, interventional cardiology, and infectious disease. It is home to the largest family medicine medical residency program in the Northeast.
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Program Purpose/Description
The PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership and education, and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy (ie, BCPS) and pursue advanced education and training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies.
Program Overview
The St. Joseph’s Health PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program strives to recruit and match with diverse, highly motivated candidates who exemplify our institutions core values of Reverence, Commitment to the Poor, Justice, Stewardship, Integrity, and Safety. Our goal is to prepare our residents to provide excellent patient centered, comprehensive, pharmaceutical care as a clinical pharmacist. Residents will acquire professional leadership skills and develop lifelong learning skills that will provide and maintain career satisfaction. Our program provides residents with a broad range of clinical experiences to launch their careers in whichever direction they desire. Each resident’s experience is tailored with customized elective opportunities to ensure their career goals are at the heart of the design of the program.
Accreditation:
Accredited by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Commission on Credentialing
Number of positions:
Two
