Education

Orientation

During the first 5 weeks of residency, residents will become acclimated to the pharmacy department and the hospital. Orientation will encompass a breadth of experiences intended to provide the resident with a solid foundation on which to build for the rest of the year. This includes operational training in all areas of main pharmacy, several Boot Camp sessions that center around various aspects of the program as well as clinical protocols and guideline overviews and training for Clinical On Call as well as Operations On Call.

- Ambulatory Clinic
- Drug Information – Medication Use Evaluation
- ACPE-accredited Continuing Education (CE) Presentation
- Clinical on-call (COC)
  - PGY1 Residents will enter rotation for COC after completion of the first third of the year (November) and will be required to serve as COC for 5 weeks throughout the year.
  - COC duties are from Monday to Monday including weekday evenings and throughout the weekend
  - Residents covering COC will have a backup COC as well as several other on-call leaders to whom they can escalate issues
  - COC is available to:
    - Assist with clinical issues that are escalated from STL during normal business hours, evenings, weekends and holidays
    - Ensure optimal support for difficult clinical decisions
    - Triage / escalate usual clinical events or problems
    - Complete urgent non-formulary requests
    - Assist with urgent drug shortages or stockouts
    - On weekends, perform all therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) hospital-wide
- Staffing
  - Residents are required to staff a minimum of 12 weekends throughout the year. Five weekends will consist of weekend decentralized staffing / TDM and will coordinate with COC weeks and 7 weekends will be centralized main pharmacy staffing.
  - In addition, each resident is required to staff 22 weekday evening centralized shifts.
- Teaching:
  - 1 APPE student scheduled after January
  - Teaching certificate program through the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
  - 1-hour didactic lecture is required for completion of the teaching certificate program
  - Relevant teaching assignments per course instructor
- Pharmacy Administration
- General Pediatrics
- Pediatric Oncology
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
- Stem Cell Transplant and Immunology
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Trauma
- Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Pediatric Hematology
- Pediatric Neurology
- Investigational Drug Services (IDS)
- Pediatric Pulmonology and Adolescent Medicine
- Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant
- Medication Use Safety
- Pharmacy Leadership
*Any of the required rotations may be repeated to replace an elective rotation.
**Of note, some elective rotations may not be offered each year dependent on preceptor availability.

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Orientation

Longitudinal Experiences

Six Required Rotations (5 weeks)

Three Elective Rotations (5 weeks)*