PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency - Aurora Health Care Metro
Contact usThe PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy – Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc. residency program prepares you to be a change agent and skilled patient care provider in community and ambulatory pharmacy settings. This program focuses on providing care within hospital-based outpatient pharmacies and ambulatory clinic environments.
Rotation sites
Rotations occur at the outpatient pharmacies and ambulatory clinics at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center and Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Residents work within interdisciplinary care teams to serve patients being discharged from the hospital and patients being seen in ambulatory clinics.
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Wisconsin’s largest private hospital, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center is a premier destination for world-class patient care, treating patients from all 50 states and worldwide. It’s internationally known for expertise in heart care and oncology. Aurora St. Luke’s also offers exceptional specialty care in areas such as critical care, abdominal/cardiothoracic transplant and neurosciences, and houses the Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic.
Aurora Sinai Medical Center
A teaching hospital located in downtown Milwaukee, Aurora Sinai Medical Center offers unique experiences including neonatal/perinatal care, internal medicine and intensive care.
Program highlights
- Orientation and Training: Computer systems, drug distribution, personnel, policies, workflow and department structure
- Clinical Services: Immunizations, solid organ and stem cell transplant education, medication therapy management, community outreach events
- Practice Management: Budgeting, personnel management, financial management, and development and implementation of new services
- Medication Safety: Assessment of medication errors and evaluation of pharmacy processes for best practice; provide education on medication safety to patients, pharmacy staff and providers
- Chronic Disease Management Clinic: Interacting with patients and other health care professionals one day per week in a primary care clinic, managing patients with tobacco use disorder, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia under a collaborative practice agreement
- Professional development: Year-long residency project, learning experience projects, in-services, staffing, professional organizations, precepting, CE presentations, interviewing/recruiting and more
- Electives: Opportunity to complete an elective learning experience managing patients in the Anticoagulation Clinic, Endocrine Clinic, or Pulmonary Clinic. Additional elective learning experiences include working with the Hotspot interdisciplinary care team or focusing on clinical teaching
For a list of learning experiences, see program structure & completion requirements [PDF].
Residency projects
Each pharmacy resident also completes a residency project. Pharmacy residency projects are practice-based and align with the department’s strategic plan. Residents formally present their projects at a statewide conference and receive the opportunity to publish their work.
View the year-long residency projects
Program requirements
You must complete general and program-specific requirements, including core and elective learning experiences, to graduate from your residency program.
Program structure & completion requirements [PDF]
Program interview
All pharmacy residency candidates must complete a virtual interview. Interview dates cannot be rescheduled.
Preceptors
Our program’s most important assets are our people. Becoming a pharmacist requires two key ingredients: a motivated learner and a motivated teacher. Our preceptors, with diverse backgrounds in pharmacy, are excellent role models and teachers to our exceptional learners.
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