UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.

Mission

To prepare pharmacists to assume any of the following roles:
- Patient care provider;
- PGY2 training in their specialty area of choice;
- Pharmacy educator
Our residents will become confident, effective practitioners of pharmacotherapy. Residents will focus on ensuring the application of safe, effective, and evidence-based medicine practices to individual patients and in populations across the health system. These practitioners will demonstrate competency in educating their patients as well as present and future healthcare professionals.

About Our Program

Required Learning Experiences and Deliverables

Required Learning Experiences and Deliverables (minimum duration):

Orientation (1 week)
Direct Patient Care I (Medicine) - 5 weeks
Direct Patient Care II (Critical Care) - 5 weeks
Direct Patient Care III (Precepting) - 5 weeks
Ambulatory Care – 4 weeks
Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases - 5 weeks
Pharmacy Management - 4 weeks
- Includes Medication Use Evaluation
Hospital Pharmacy Services I (4 weeks) and II (longitudinal)
- One weekend every fourth weekend
- One four-hour weekday shift every other week
- One minor holiday (July Fourth, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day)
- One major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day)
Resident Research – Longitudinal
- Includes project plan, presentations and manuscript
Resident Presentation Series
- Journal Club
- Case Conference
- PULSE Continuing Education
- Student Topic Discussion
Pharmacy Operations
- Residents must obtain pharmacist licensure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within 120 days of the start of the residency and practice a minimum of 35 weeks as a licensed pharmacist.
- Residents must successfully complete Pharmacy Department competencies related to the following clinical programs: Pharmacokinetics, Warfarin. The resident pharmacist must also complete all other hospital and departmental competencies as assigned.

Electives

Select Elective Learning Experiences (a minimum 8 weeks must be in direct patient care):

Patient Care Electives
- Addiction Medicine/Behavioral Health
- Ambulatory Care
  - Geriatrics
  - Heart and Vascular Institute
  - Underserved Care
  - Pittsburgh AIDS Center for Treatment (PACT)
- Cardiology
- Critical Care
  - Cardiothoracic
  - Cardiac Care
  - Medical
  - Neurovascular
  - Surgical Trauma
  - Transplant
- Emergency Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Oncology
- Outcomes Research
- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatric Pharmacy
- Transplant
  - Heart
  - Kidney
  - Liver
  - Lung
- Toxicology
Administrative Electives
- Clinical Pharmacy Services Management
- Data Analysis and Modeling
- Finance and Budgeting
- Medication Use Safety and Risk Management
- Pharmacy Information Technology and Automation
- Pharmacy Inventory and Asset Management

People (RPD, Residency Program Coordinators, Preceptors)

Residents

Application Process

Employment Information and Benefits

Recent Resident Publications