Overview: Pharmacy Practice Residency (PGY1)

Rush has been involved in pharmacy residency training for over 25 years. Some of the components of the residency at Rush are as follows:

Required rotations (2009-2010)

1. Internal medicine
2. Medical critical care
3. Practice management
4. Medication Safety
5. Infectious disease

Elective rotations (2009-2010)

1. Hematology/oncology
2. Bone marrow transplant
3. Solid organ transplant
4. Inpatient anticoagulation
5. Neurocritical care
6. Surgical critical care
7. Investigational drugs
8. Nutrition
9. Pediatrics
10. Ambulatory Care
11. Drug Information

Other activities included in the residency

1. Weekly resident conference (patient case or journal club)
2. Resident research project
3. Preparation of and presentation of the research project as a poster at ASHP Midyear meeting
4. Four professional practice seminars
5. Longitudinal projects in quality assurance, policy/guideline development, drug use evaluation, and formulary management
6. Didactic lectures to pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students and other healthcare professionals
7. Working as a satellite pharmacist every other weekend