The 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.
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
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.
You must complete general and program-specific requirements, including core and elective learning experiences, to graduate from your residency program.
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.
Learn how to apply to an Aurora Pharmacy Residency program. Get information about candidate requirements, the application process and the required interview.
Graduate of an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy (or one in process of pursuing accreditation) or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP); eligible for pharmacist licensure in Wisconsin; not employed outside Aurora Health Care during the program; US Citizen or permanent resident of the US; and able to start on the pre-determined start date. Application materials include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae (CV), three references, and pharmacy school transcripts. All application materials must be submitted in PhORCAS. An interview is required.
About PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency - Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc.
The PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency with Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc. provides an opportunity to practice at both the Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center and the Aurora Sinai Medical Center Outpatient Pharmacies and Ambulatory Clinics. Residents will concentrate on enhancing existing services and implementing new pharmacy-based clinical services. Patient care services include comprehensive medication reviews, immunizations, a discharge prescription delivery service, a transplant medication education service, and community outreach events. Residents will also have the opportunity to complete longitudinal ambulatory care learning experiences in primary care and specialty clinics, providing chronic disease state management through collaborative practice agreements and medication therapy management services. Interdisciplinary teamwork and coordination of care are emphasized. Residents will also gain experience in practice management, medication safety, student precepting, and delivering a CE presentation. The residency experience is customized to each resident.