Rotational Experiences:
The PGY1 pharmacy residency year begins with a 5-week orientation period. Throughout the training year, there are 8 rotations with each learning experience being 5-6 weeks in length. The schedule allows for 3 elective rotations.
Required Rotations:
Internal Medicine (1 mandatory learning experience)
Location: Cambridge Hospital
Preceptors: Gail Sanchez, Xia Thai, Shirley Yu
Family Medicine (1 mandatory learning experience)
Location: Everett Hospital
Preceptors: Gail Sanchez, Xia Thai, Shirley Yu
Ambulatory Care (2 mandatory learning experiences)
Location: Cambridge, Somerville, Revere Clinics
Preceptors: Catrina Derderian, Lindsey Krueger-Grgurich, Garrett Lech, Victoria Liu, Sahil Jain, Alexandra Polito, Gina Stenhouse, Emily Zouzas
Practice Management (1 mandatory learning experience)
Location: Cambridge
Preceptors: Mary Regan and Steven Cano
Elective Rotations:
Infectious Disease/Antimicrobial Stewardship
Location: Cambridge and Everett Hospitals
Preceptor: Amanda Barner
Acute Psychiatry
Location: Everett Hospital
Preceptor: Jessica Goren
Ambulatory Care (Select one of the following)
- Population Health
Location: Cambridge
Preceptor: Catrina Derderian
- Chronic Pain Management
Location: Cambridge and Revere
Preceptor: Gina Stenhouse
- Advanced Ambulatory Care Management
Location: Cambridge, Somerville, Revere
Preceptors: Catrina Derderian, Sahil Jain, Lindsey, Krueger-Grgurich, Garrett Lech, Vicky Liu, Alexandra Polito, Gina Stenhouse, Emily Zouzas
Practice Management 2
Location: Cambridge
Preceptors: Steven Cano, Monica Akus
Geriatric Psychiatry
Location: Everett Hospital
Preceptor: Jessica Goren
Adult Medicine with an Academic Focus
Location: Cambridge or Everett Hospitals
Preceptor: Gail Sanchez, Xia Thai, Shirley Yu
Quality Improvement with Infectious Disease Focus
Location: Cambridge and Everett Hospitals
Preceptor: Amanda Barner
Longitudinal Experiences (Required):
Clinical On-Call Programs
- Resident will participate in the following programs as applicable:
- Pharmacy Dosing Protocols (e.g., warfarin, vancomycin & renal dosing)
- Pharmacy Patient Education (e.g., CHF patients)
- Participate in the clinical on-call program
- Approximately 1 week/month
- At-home call program
Hospital Practice (Staffing) in the Cambridge Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy
- Every 4th weekend
- 1 evening shift per week (~ 5 hours)
- 1 major and 1 minor holiday
Medication Safety
- Monthly discussion seminar with Medication Safety Officer
Pharmacy Leadership
- Monthly seminar with Chief Pharmacy Officer and Pharmacy Leadership Team
- Journal club presentation
Research Project
- Resident is the primary stakeholder in a CHA approved quality research project
- Present research at 2 meetings:
- Poster presentation (Vizient Consortium Pharmacy Network at the Midyear Clinical Meeting)
- Platform presentation (Eastern States Residency Conference)
- Final presentation to Pharmacy Enterprise and collaborators
- Final project written in a publishable format
Periodic Experiences (Required):
Medication Use Process
- Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee work and presentations:
- Conduct a medication use evaluation
- Review a new medication for formulary consideration
Teaching
- Teaching Certificate Program
- Monthly seminar
- Resident will write a teaching philosophy, create a teaching portfolio, and lead weekly small group sessions for 1 semester for pharmacy students
- 1 ACPE (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Continuing Education) approved lecture to pharmacy staff
- 2 case conferences
- 3 inservices (e.g., physicians, nurses, pharmacists)
- Write a Pharmacy CHAnnel Newsletter article
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