Residency Programs

PGY1 Residency Program

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program teaches residents to care for patients in the hospital and ambulatory settings. There are five resident positions within this program. Required rotations include a four-week management rotation as well as:

• Internal Medicine

• Cardiology

• Nephrology

• Critical care (MICU or SICU)

• Ambulatory care (Transplant Clinic, Cancer Center, Medicine Clinic or HIV clinic).

Elective rotations include infectious disease, surgery/ neuroscience, toxicology, emergency medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics (NICU/ PICU/ Peds), burn, evening cardiology/nephrology, evening surgery, evening internal medicine, evening critical care, and transitions of care 

Residents will attend and participate in leadership and management meetings, submit and monitor adverse drug events, write department newsletters, prepare and participate in journal clubs and teach/ precept pharmacy students. Residents will contribute to departmental staffing by working two holidays, staffing every other weekend, covering the clinical on-call pager and participating in codes while on rotation and within their specified code month.

PGY1 Ambulatory Residency Program

Residents will achieve ASHP goals, objectives, and activities through participation in ambulatory and community pharmacy rotations. There is one resident position within this program. Required rotations include:

• Direct Patient Care (Primary Care Clinics, Brooklyn Park Clinic)

• Practice Management and Leadership

• Research

• Teaching (University of Minnesota)

Elective rotations may include: 

• Inpatient and ambulatory psychiatry

• Inpatient cardiology and internal medicine

• Specialty ambulatory clinic areas (Cancer Center, Cardiology Clinic, Coordinated Care Clinic, Dermatology Clinic, Diabetes/Endocrinology Clinc, HIV Clinic, Liver Clinic, Rheumatology Clinic, and Kidney Transplant Clinc)

Resident and program director will collaborate to find the best collection of these patient care experiences to meet the learning goals of the resident. 

Residents will attend and participate in leadership and management meetings, submit and monitor adverse drug events, write and edit pharmacy department newsletters, as well as teach/ precept pharmacy students. Residents will contribute to departmental community pharmacy staffing by working up to two holidays, every fourth weekend, and a total of two months in blocked format during the residency program. 

PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program

The PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency Program teaches residents to be clinically and professionally competent practitioners in all phases of solid organ transplantation across multiple organ systems. There is one resident position within this program. Required rotations include longitudinal Practice Leadership, Research and Major Project, Academia and Staffing.  Required blocked experiences include:

•  Orientation/Operations

•  Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinic Kidney Transplant experiences (Hennepin Healthcare)

•  Inpatient Heart Failure/ Heart Transplant and Ambulatory Heart Transplant Clinic experiences (Abbott Northwestern Hospital)

•  Liver and Lung Transplant experiences (Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota)

•  Nephrology (Hennepin Healthcare)

•  Transplant Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (Hennepin Healthcare)

Additional elective experiences at Hennepin Healthcare include Transplant Infectious Disease, Transplant and Specialty Services Pharmacy, Cardiology Consults with opportunities for other customized experiences.

Additionally, the PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Resident will teach and precept pharmacy students at the U of MN College of Pharmacy in addition to students on APPEs along with PGY-1 Residents on transplant experiences.  Residents will attend and participate in Transplant Quality Meetings, Patient Selection Committee, attend a national transplant conference and be supported to actively participate in the transplant pharmacy community through AST Pharmacy Community of Practice.  This resident will contribute to departmental staffing by working approximately every fourth weekend (13 total) on the transplant/nephrology service as well as staffing three weeks throughout the year to increase autonomy as a practitioner. 

PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program
 

The PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program teaches residents to become clinically and professionally competent critical care practitioners. There are three resident positions within this program. Required rotations include: 

• Critical Care Orientation (1 week) 

• Surgical/Trauma/Neuro ICU (3 rotations, 4 weeks each) 

• Medical ICU  (3 rotations, 4 weeks each) 

• Evening ICU (4 weeks)  

• Medication Safety (longitudinal) 

• Emergency Medicine (6 weeks) 

• Research (longitudinal) 

Elective rotations include Cardiology, Burn, Infectious Disease, Pediatrics (PICU/Peds/NICU), and Toxicology (Poison Center)  

Residents will participate in critical care book club and journal club, provide lectures to interdisciplinary staff and the pharmacy department as well as teach, precept, and mentor pharmacy students and PGY-1 Residents. Residents will contribute to departmental staffing by working 3 holidays, staffing every third weekend in the ICU, and participating in codes while on rotation and within the specified code months and weeks. 

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Program

The PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program currently holds Candidate Status with ASHP. Residents graduating from a program that achieves accreditation receive the same accreditation status recognized by ASHP.

Purpose Statement

PGY2 residency programs build upon Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency training to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals, and objectives for advanced practice areas. Residents who successfully complete PGY2 residency programs are prepared for advanced patient care or other specialized positions, and board certification in the advanced practice area, if available.

Residency Description

The PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency at Hennepin Healthcare prepares pharmacists for advanced practice in a Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center and safety-net health system. Residents care for a diverse patient population across the full spectrum of acuity. A distinguishing feature of the program is its longitudinal training in toxicology and pre-hospital care through the Minnesota Regional Poison Center and Hennepin EMS. These experiences provide exposure to poison center consultation, toxicologic emergencies, EMS operations, and pre-hospital pharmacotherapy. Additional program strengths include a pharmacist-staffed Poison Center, 24/7 emergency department pharmacist coverage, and a dedicated EMS pharmacist. Through participation in resuscitations, trauma activations, teaching, precepting, research, and quality improvement initiatives, residents are prepared to provide advanced emergency medicine pharmacy services and contribute to patient care across emergency medicine, toxicology, and pre-hospital care settings.

PGY1/2 Health System Administration & Leadership Pharmacy Residency Program

The PGY-1/2 Health System Administration and Leadership Residency with a Masters Degree teaches residents to be clinically competent pharmacy leaders in hospital, ambulatory and community pharmacy settings. This is a two-year program with one resident position each year. Residents will meet the requirements of a PGY-1residency and a PGY-2 HSPAL residency and obtain a Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Science through didactic coursework at the University of North Carolina College of Pharmacy. Required rotations include:

• Health System Leadership (I & II)

• Ambulatory Practice Management

• Medication Safety & Accreditation Management

• Clinical Practice Management

• Budget & Financial Management

• Specialty Pharmacy Operations Management

For additional information regarding the programmatic requirements of the first year of residency, please refer to the PGY-1 page. Elective rotations include Executive Leadership, Pharmacy Informatics, Poison Center Management and Operations & Purchasing Leadership. Residents are encouraged and welcome to apply to elective rotations outside of Hennepin Healthcare, should the opportunities arise.

Residents will contribute to departmental leadership activities through committee work, P&T participation and formulary management, financial analyses, policy and procedure updates, medication class reviews, intern supervision and teaching/precepting pharmacy students and residents. HSPAL residents will contribute to departmental staffing by working two holidays annually, staffing every other weekend during the first year and every fourth weekend during the second year, and participating in codes while on rotation and within the specified code month.