PGY1 | 2 HSPAL Residency Curriculum

PGY1 Curriculum

Core Required Rotations (4 Week Duration)

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• Hospital/Pharmacy Orientation (5 weeks duration)
• Adult Critical Care
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Cardiology
• Internal Medicine
• Medication Safety
• Pediatrics
• Resident-designed Self-improvement Rotation (December: 5-6 weeks)

Elective Rotations (4 Week Duration; Choose 4)

• Academia
• Adult Critical Care II
• Emergency Medicine
• Geriatrics
• Hematology/Oncology
• Infectious Disease Consult Service
• Neonatal Critical Care
• Opioid Stewardship
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Renal Transplant

Longitudinal Learning Experiences

Inpatient Pharmacy Service (11 months)

• Staffing- (every third weekend and 1 evening/week)

Ambulatory Clinic/Patient Care Longitudinal (4 experiences; 8 months total)

• Anticoagulation Clinic: 1/2 Day/Week (2 months)
• Hypertension Clinic: 1/2 Day/Week (2 months)
• Medication History: 1/2 Day/Week (2 months)
• Renal Transplant Clinic: 1/2 Day/week (2 months)

Pharmacy Administration Longitudinal (11 months)

• Pharmacy Administration Seminars:
  • Drug Use Policy/Regulatory
  • Management (Human Resources, Evaluations, Financials, etc.)
  • Quality/Benchmarking
  • Leadership (Leading yourself, Leading others)

Residency Quality Improvement Project (11 months)

• Project design and implementation
• Project Presentation (ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Regional Pharmacy)
• Project write-up

Education/Academia (11 months)

• Journal Club & Case Discussion Presentations
• Continuing Education Presentation
• Precept/Mentor Pharmacy Students
• Advanced Teaching: MCPHS-Worcester or Western New England University (optional)

Drug Information & Non-Formulary Requests On-Call Pager (11 months)

• Cover pager 1 week every 6-9 weeks (based on weekend rotation assignment)

Baystate Health Pharmacy and Therapeutics (3 months)

• Complete one (1) MUE
• Complete one (1) formulary addition, drug class review or guideline/protocol review

Resident Resilience and Wellness Series (11 months)

• 45 minute meetings once monthly, topics and exercises vary

PGY2 Curriculum 

Core Required Rotations

• Orientation (1 week)
• Clinical Pharmacy (8 weeks)
• Acute Care Pharmacy (8 weeks) Operations (8 weeks)
• Supply Chain (8 weeks)
• Medication Safety (8 weeks)
• Regulatory Pharmacy (8 weeks)
• Ambulatory Pharmacy (8 weeks)
• Community Hospital Leadership and Management (5 weeks)
• Finance and Budgeting (2 weeks)

Elective Rotations may include:

• Outpatient Oncology (2 weeks) Management
• Investigational Drug Services (2 weeks)
• Pharmacy Informatics (2 weeks)
• Specialty/Community Pharmacy (2 weeks)
• Executive Pharmacy Leadership (2 weeks)

Longitudinal Learning Experiences

• Residency Administration and Accreditation (12 months)
• Formulary Management (8 months)
• Human Resource Management (12 months)
• Residency Project (12 months)
• Education/Academia (12 months)