Pharmacy PGY1 Residency Program

The PGY1 Pharmacy Program includes:

• Orientation (5-10 days)
• Medication Safety (2 weeks)
• Pharmacy Services (5 weeks)
• Clinical Decentralized Pharmacy Services* (4-5 weeks)
• Internal Medicine* (4-5 weeks)
• Formulary Management (Concentrated) (2 weeks)
• Cardiology* (4-5 weeks)
• Critical Care* (4-5 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases* (4-5 weeks)
• Professional Practice Advancement (2 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine* (4-5 weeks)
• Management-Pharmacy Leadership (4-5 weeks)
• Advanced Decentralized Clinical Pharmacy Services* (3-4 weeks)
• Longitudinal Experiences (i.e., >12 weeks): Service Staffing, Medication Use Evaluation, Quality Improvement/Research Project, Continuing Education Presentation and Formulary Management (longitudinal)
• Elective Experiences: Advanced Emergency Medicine* (4 weeks), Advanced Critical Care* (4 weeks), Advanced Infectious Diseases* (4 weeks) and Advanced Internal Medicine* (4-5 weeks). Additional elective learning experiences may be created based on the resident’s interest.

* Required learning experience

Service/Staffing

Residents will be scheduled at least an initial four-week orientation/training period, and then will be required to staff a minimum of 320 hours over the course of the residency program (i.e., every other weekend distributed throughout the program unless occasionally scheduled less frequently).

Requirements for Certificate of Completion of Residency

To receive final certification of successful residency completion, the resident must:

1. Successfully obtain Florida Pharmacist licensure within 90 days of start date and maintain throughout residency.
2. Successfully complete American Heart Association Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support.
3. Attend American Society of Health-System Pharmacy Midyear Clinical Meeting and obtain 10 continuing education hours. Also, attend Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacy Annual Meeting and obtain eight continuing education hours. If the resident can’t attend due to extenuating circumstances, he/she will have to complete professional development and educational activities as determined by the RAC. 
4. Complete all scheduled MUE and Formulary Assignments with presentations at P&T or appropriate committee.
5. Satisfactorily complete a quality improvement/research project, including presentation at the regional Florida Residency Conference, or equivalent regional or higher conference, and submission of final written manuscript suitable for publication.
6. Complete a minimum of two formal Journal Clubs and two Patient Cases presentations.
7. Select a topic suitable for a continuing education presentation, develop the presentation and present it in collaboration with the Suncoast Regional Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
8. Complete evaluations using PharmAcademic, including self-evaluations, evaluation of the learning experience and preceptor evaluations.
9. Complete at least 80% of ASHP objectives at an Achieved (ACHR) level, including the specified critical objectives R.1.1.4, R2.1.1, R3.2.2, and R4.1.3, and no objectives are evaluated to be at a Needs Improvement (NI) level during Quarter 4 of the residency.  
10. Satisfactorily complete all longitudinal assignments (e.g., Drug Information, Quality Improvement Project, Special Projects, etc.).
11. Maintain an up-to-date resident electronic dossier accessible by the RPD containing information related to drug information responses, MUE, Formulary Reviews, and Quality Improvement Project. Evaluations do not need to be included in the notebook since these are maintained on PharmAcademic.
12. Complete all staffing/service requirements as outlined in this document.

Pharmacy Program Preceptor Roster and Learning Experiences