PGY1 Nontraditional 24-Month Pharmacy Residency (Froedtert Hospital)

National Match Code: 121521

PGY1 Program Director
Anne Zechlinski, PharmD, BCPS
Pharmacy Coordinator
Telephone: 414-805-0086
Fax: 414-805-9283
E-mail: [email protected]

PGY1 Program Coordinator
Amanda (Sweet) Pilo, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist — Oncology
E-mail: [email protected]

Duration/Type: 24-month residency
Number of Positions: 1
Application Deadline: Jan. 2, 2025
Starting Date: June 2025
Annual Stipend: $81,120

The purpose of this PGY1 residency program is to build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) 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.

Features

• Flexible, comprehensive training in a variety of areas
• Residency training program established in 1993
• A variety of elective rotations are available.
• Rotations and activities are tailored to meet the needs and interests of each resident.
• Many teaching and precepting opportunities are available.
• Non-traditional residents complete the PGY1 program requirements over a 24 month period.
  • 52 weeks are spent staffing in a variety of areas including: central pharmacy, medicine and surgery units, infusion clinic and pre-operative clinic.
  • Rotations are scheduled approximately every other month.

Sample resident rotation schedule

Requirements for Acceptance

Applicants are required to submit a program application through PhORCAS. Please follow the application instructions.

Candidates may apply to one or both of the PGY1 (acute care) programs at Froedtert Hospital.

Candidates who are selected to interview for the PGY1 program are able to rank one or both programs in the match (i.e., may rank the traditional and non-traditional PGY1).

Learning Experiences

Required

• Orientation and Training (5 weeks)
• Acute Care Clinical Practice Staffing (Longitudinal, 8 weeks over 52 weeks)
  • 8 weeks (40 hours/week, M-F PM shifts) 
  • 16 weekends (16 hours/weekend, approx. every 3rd weekend, mix of AM and PM shifts)
  • 2 holidays (Thanksgiving and New Year’s OR Christmas and Memorial Day) plus two additional weekdays around major holidays (Thanksgiving or Christmas) worked
  • 4 additional staffing days assigned based on departmental need (approx. 1 per quarter)
• Internal Medicine (4 weeks)

Pharmacy Administration Selective (resident to select 1, may select additional as elective, 4 weeks each)

• Clinical Administration
• Medication Safety
• Operations Administration
• Residency Program Administration

Critical Care Selective (resident to select 1, may select additional as elective, 4 weeks each)

• Cardiovascular Critical Care
• Critical Care Medicine
• Neurosurgical Critical Care
• Surgical / Trauma Critical Care

Medication Use Selective (resident to select 1, 4 weeks each)

• Anticoagulation Stewardship
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• General Medication Use
• Pain Stewardship
• Medication Use – Oncology Focus

Elective Learning Experiences

• Academia at the Medical College of Wisconsin (4 weeks) 
• Acute Care Hematology/Oncology (4 weeks) 
• Ambulatory Care Oncology (4 weeks)
• Ambulatory Care (4 weeks)
• Cardiology (4 weeks)
• Critical Care (4 weeks, may choose additional selective as elective)
• Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
• Neurology (4 weeks)
• Pharmacy Administration (4 weeks, may choose an additional selective as elective)
• Pharmacy Informatics (4 weeks)
• Solid Organ Transplant (4 weeks)
• Specialty Pharmacy (4 weeks)
• Toxicology (4 weeks)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship (2 weeks)
• Investigational Drug Service (2 weeks)
• Medicine Precepting (2 weeks)
• Perioperative (OR) Care (2 weeks)

Other Required Learning Experiences

• Resident Project (Longitudinal over 104 weeks)
  • Includes participating in Research Certificate Program
• Committee Appointment (Longitudinal over 104 weeks)
• Patient Care Lab Teaching Experience (Longitudinal over 52 or 104 weeks)
  • Facilitate 4 patient care labs throughout year
  • Resident may choose to schedule over 52 or 104 weeks
• Medication Error Review (Longitudinal over 1 quarter)
  • Assigned to one quarter of the year, July-Sept, Oct-Dec, Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun

Other Elective Experiences

• MCW Teaching Certificate Program (Longitudinal over 52 or 104 weeks)
  • Resident may choose to complete the teaching certificate over 52 or 104 weeks

Requirements and Expectations

The following are the completion requirements for the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program.

1. Competencies, Goals and Objectives
   • All objectives within the R1. Patient Care Competency Area must be at ACHR (Achieved for Residency) level
   • At least 70% of remaining objectives must be at ACHR level with remaining objectives at SP (Satisfactory Progress) level
2. Completion of Acute Care Clinical Practice Staffing Requirements
   • 8 weeks (40 hours/week, M-F PM shifts)
   • 16 weekends (16 hours/weekend, approx. every 3rd weekend, mix of AM and PM shifts)
   • 2 holidays (Thanksgiving and New Year’s OR Christmas and Memorial Day) plus two additional weekdays around major holidays (Thanksgiving or Christmas) worked
   • 4 additional staffing days assigned based on departmental need (approx. 1 per quarter)
   • For non-traditional residents, additional pharmacist staffing alternating with resident rotations and staffing (approximately 50 weeks)
3. Wisconsin Pharmacist Licensure within 120 days of start date
4. Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (ACLS) – classes provided
5. Resident Project
   • Completion of CITI Training
   • Project Protocol development, presentation and approval at Pharmacy Research Committee
   • Poster Presentation (Vizient (Dec) or alternative AND MCW Research Forum (May))
   • Platform Presentation (Great Lakes (April) or alternative)
   • Development of a formal manuscript suitable for publication
6. Medication Error Review
   • Presentation at Academic Afternoon
   • Presentation at Quarterly M&M Meeting (Optional)
7. Writing Assignment (Monograph, Guideline, Class Review, etc.)
   • Completed on Medication Use Selective
8. Administrative Topic Discussion
   • Presented at Academic Afternoon
   • Topic assigned in July
9. Medicine Case Presentation and Topic Discussion
   • Presented to students and preceptors while on Internal Medicine Rotation
10. Facilitate four labs at MCW as part of the Patient Care Lab Teaching Experience
11. Primary Preceptor for 1-4 Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) Students

Other Expectations

• Minimum 8 hours/day (Monday-Friday)
• Meet with mentor and RPD approximately monthly
• Timely completion of quarterly self-assessments and development plan
• Timely completion of program evaluations (due last day of learning experience)
• Contact primary preceptor(s) for each learning experience at least two weeks prior to start date with introductory e-mail
• Assist with resident recruitment
  • Attend regional/virtual recruitment events (2-3 per resident)
  • Attend Residency Showcase if attending Midyear Meeting
  • Assist with application review (early January)
  • Participate in resident interviews (late January-February)
• One administrative assignment (vary based on program need)
• Participation in academic afternoon (Wed 1-4 PM) when not staffing or on PTO (paid time off)
• Non-traditional residents may be trained to work in other areas based on department needs (for example: infusion clinic, cardiology, etc.)
• Pharmacist staffing shifts will be 8 hours shifts, a mix of AMs and PMs, and one to two weekends per month during pharmacist staffing months
• Non-traditional residents are able to use additional paid time off during non-resident staffing time

Past Residents

* indicates current Froedtert Pharmacist