Curriculum
As a PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident, you devote much of your time to comprehensive training as a member of the interdisciplinary team. A breadth of learning experiences has been designed to increase and refine your clinical competency, provide evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic care plans, and develop your confidence as an independent practitioner.
Direct patient care services allow you to provide patient-specific pharmaceutical care services. Responsibilities include development of individualized care and monitoring plans for various patient populations. After coaching, instruction, and modeling by a preceptor, you are assessed and constructively critiqued on how to further refine the delivery of evidence-based recommendations.
You provide drug information to patients, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals. Your preceptors offer feedback to enhance your drug-information retrieval skills using a variety of resources and modalities.
Required learning experiences
The PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester is designed to provide a diverse experience for the future pharmacy clinician, with a focus on serving patients in the outpatient, community setting. Required learning experiences include the following:
| Area | Length |
|---|---|
| Orientation | 6 weeks |
| Specialty Pharmacy 1 | 6 weeks |
| Pharmacy Leadership and Administration | 6 weeks |
| Managed Care/Pharmacy Benefits Management | 4 weeks |
| Infusion Pharmacy | 3 weeks |
| Compounding | 3 weeks |
| Ambulatory Primary Care Clinic | 3 weeks |
| Ambulatory Care Required Selective | 3 weeks |
| Methodist Campus Outpatient Pharmacy | 6 weeks |
| Saint Marys Campus Outpatient Pharmacy | 6 weeks |
| Specialty Pharmacy 2 | 4 weeks |
| Medication use evaluation and quality improvement | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
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Professional development and management |
Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 2 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Research | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 12 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Staffing | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 32 hours per 4 weeks*; total 368 hours over the year) |
| Teaching and learning certificate | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
*This is an average and there may be more or fewer hours at different timeframes throughout the residency year.
Elective learning
A portion of your experience in ambulatory care (the required selective) will allow you to choose from one of two immune compromised patient populations to work with:
- Immune-mediated specialty clinic (rheumatology, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.)
- Post-solid organ transplant clinic
Staffing commitment
All PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy residents provide approximately 32 hours of staffing every four weeks. Staffing may include a combination of weekend and evening experiences to maintain operational and clinical pharmacy competency and knowledge. No formal on-call program exists.
Curriculum enhancements
The Department of Pharmacy and Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences are committed to developing and maintaining the best education programs. The curriculum and other aspects of this program are assessed constantly and changed as necessary to ensure the highest quality training.