Hennepin Healthcare offers two distinct PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Programs: one focusing on the care of patients in the hospital and ambulatory settings and the other focusing on the care of patients in the ambulatory and community care settings. This posting summarizes the PGY-1 Residency Program in the hospital and ambulatory setting. Five positions are available.

It is expected that graduates of the Hennepin Healthcare PGY-1 Residency Program will be competent and confident practitioners of direct and indirect patient care in multiple practice environments. They will be accountable for achieving optimal medication management as collaborative members of the health care team. These pharmacists will exercise skill in educating and communicating with other health care professionals, patients, and the community on topics relating to patient-centered care. They will demonstrate professional maturity by following a personal philosophy of practice, assessing their own performance, exhibiting commitment to the profession, and exercising leadership in improving the safety of the medication-use system.

The following requirements are designed to enhance and develop residents’ overall knowledge in order to become clinically and professionally competent practitioners by the end of the residency program.

 Required Rotations (4 weeks in length):

• Pharmacy and Hospital Orientation
• Hospital Management & Administration
• Cardiology
• Nephrology
• Medicine (Internal Medicine or Hospitalist Medicine)
• Critical Care (Medical Intensive Care or Surgical Intensive Care)
• Ambulatory Clinic (Medicine Clinic, HIV Clinic, Transplant Clinic, or Cancer Center)

 Elective Rotations (2-4 weeks in length):

• Medicine Clinic                                                   
• Burn
• Cancer Center
• Emergency Medicine
• Hematology/ Oncology
• HIV Clinic
• Infectious Disease
• Kidney Transplant
• Psychiatry
• Poison Center/ Toxicology
• Surgery/Neuroscience
• Pediatrics (General Pediatrics, Neonatal/ Pediatric Intensive Care Units)
• Evening Rotations (Care/ Renal, Medicine, Critical Care)

Teaching Requirements

Residents will teach and precept medical residents, pharmacy learners and medical students. These activities are designed to enhance literature assessment abilities along with communication, confidence, creativity and leadership skills. These activities include:

• Teaching and precepting of pharmacy students on IPPE and APPE rotations
• Pharmacy department large group CE presentations and BCPS Review Sessions
• Interdisciplinary group teaching:
• Medical Residency Programs: Dentistry, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine
• Simulation sessions with physician residents and medical students

Additional Requirements

Residents will complete a MUE and a residency research project for presentation within the organization and at regional and national meetings. Residents will participate in and contribute to pharmacy leadership and management activities for professional growth and development.