The PeaceHealth St Joseph Medical Center PGY-1 residency program aims to train pharmacists to function as independent patient-focused practitioners who are able to provide pharmaceutical care in an acute-care community hospital clinical practice or have the qualifications to seek advanced specialty training.

As integral members of the health care team, they will actively use integrated pharmacotherapeutic skills to achieve optimal drug therapy outcomes for their patients.

They will develop a foundation of critical thinking skills that will enable the continuous learning, professional self-development, and innovation needed in an ever-changing health care environment.

Required 4-6 weeks rotations include internal medicine, cardiology, surgery, intensive care, infectious disease/antimicrobial stewardship, and emergency medicine   Additional longitudinal rotations include formulary management, pharmacy management, staffing, a teaching certificate program and a residency project.  Current elective rotations include  outpatient oncology, and palliative care.  The program provides flexibility to match rotations with areas of clinical interest for residents.

Residents will have the opportunity to serve as preceptors for PharmD students and improve their teaching and mentoring skills. An on-line teaching certificate program is required.  Additional opportunities for providing education to other medical professionals will be provided through Grand Rounds presentations and staff in-services.

Please see PhORCAS for application deadline/

As part of the PhORCAS application, applicants should include a letter of intent, CV and three references.  No additional reference letters are requires outside of the PhORCAS template.