The Children's National Medical Center Pharmacy Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Residency Program offers the motivated resident an excellent opportunity for learning in a challenging and progressive environment. It is designed to emphasize individual resident needs and interests utilizing the ASHP-developed Resident Learning System (RLS). Because Children's National is challenged with the very diverse issues that come with a heavy managed care population, residents receive real world learning experiences. The program offers a great variety of pediatric subspecialty experiences including exposure to practical and clinical challenges to further develop well-rounded pediatric pharmacy practitioners.

More than 50 pharmacists have completed our residency since the start of the program in 1980. The Division of Pharmacy is affiliated with Howard University School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University and Shenandoah University and other pharmacy schools around the country.

Children’s National Medical Center is a participating member of the ASHP Residency Matching Program. 

Rotations
Required rotations include: Administration, Amulatory Care, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Neonatal Intensive Care and Pediatric Intensive Care. 

Examples of clinics include: General Pediatric Clinic, Adolescent Medicine, HIV, Hematology/Oncology and Pulmonology.

Some examples of Elective Rotations include, but are not limited to: Investigational Drugs and Pulmonology. Elective rotations may also be chosen based upon the resident’s professional interests and previous experiences.

Requirements
A residency project, selected by the resident, is required and must be in publishable form upon completion of the residency. The resident also will complete at least one drug use evaluation. In addition, written evaluation of each rotation experience by both resident and rotation preceptor are required. Residents staff every third weekend and one to two evening shifts per month for the department and must take the District of Columbia licensure exam in June or be eligible for reciprocation. Finally, residents will have the opportunity to serve as a preceptor for pharmacy students and will be required to in-service the pharmacy, nursing, and medical staffs when necessary.

Potential candidates for Children's Pharmacy Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Residency Program should submit an application by mid-January. Residency begins in July. Please type or print clearly all entries on the application. The items below should be submitted with your application:

• Transcript of college courses completed - If you cannot get the most recent transcript including current course work due to the holidays, please submit what you have and bring a current transcript to your interview.
• One page statement of professional goals - Include both short term and long term, as well as why you want to pursue residency training in general and specifically at Children’s National Medical Center.
• Current CV - It should include (but not be limited to) schools or universities attended (including dates), degrees conferred or expected, honors and awards, extracurricular activities, your work experience, clinical rotations (taken or scheduled), and other pertinent information.
• Three letters of recommendation - At least one of which is from a previous pharmacy employer and two from clinical faculty. Provide each individual who is writing a recommendation with a copy of the Residency Applicant Recommendation Request Form (included in application download below). They will send their letters of recommendation directly to Children’s National Medical Center.
• Optional - Passport sized photograph to help us remember you and your interview.

An on-site interview at Children’s National Medical Center is required. Applicants will be invited to interview based upon their applications, transcript, and letters of recommendation at a mutually convenient time during late January or February.

Download our application now.

Contact Information

Richard H. Parrish, BSPPharm, PhD
Residency Program Director
Director, Clinical Services
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2916
202-476-4961
Rparrish@cnmc.org

Kathy Pham, Pharm.D, BCPS
Residency Program Coordinator
NICU Clinical Specialist
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2916
202-476-4642
Kpham@cnmc.org

• Vacation time:
  • 10 vacation days
  • 4 sick days
  • 3 compensated days for working 1 major holiday and 2 minor holidays
  • 1 floating holiday
• Residents are eligible for employee health and life insurance
• Travel Allowance for Residents and Preceptors
  • ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
  • Eastern States Conference