Curriculum
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Clinical training
As a PGY-1 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 Pharmacy Residency at Mayo Clinic Health System — Eau Claire is designed to provide a diverse experience for the future pharmacy clinician. Required learning experiences may be extended based on your interests and include the following:
| Area | Length |
|---|---|
| Cardiology and Intermediate Care | 4 weeks |
| Central Pharmacy Operations | 4 weeks |
| Critical Care | 4 weeks |
| Internal Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Stewardship | 4 weeks |
| Oncology Clinic | 4 weeks |
| Orientation | 2 weeks |
| Medical Response | 4 weeks |
| Medical Resuscitation Response | Longitudinal, 12 months |
| Pharmacy Leadership and Administration | Longitudinal, 12 months |
| Research | Longitudinal, 12 months |
| Staffing | Longitudinal, 12 months |
| Teaching and Learning | Longitudinal, 12 months |
| Quality Improvement | Longitudinal, 12 months |
Elective learning experiences
Electives are available in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings that allow you to tailor the program to your needs. The list below includes learning experiences that past PGY-1 residents have completed at Mayo Clinic Health System — Eau Claire.
- Cardiology and Intermediate Care
- Clinical Oncology
- Community Pharmacy Practice
- Critical Access Hospital
- Emergency Medicine I
- Emergency Medicine II
- Infusion Clinic
- Pediatrics* (MN Intern License required)
- Pharmacy informatics**
* Rochester, MN based electives
** Virtual learning experience
Additional elective learning experiences may be available upon request. Residents may also elect to repeat a more focused and intense required learning experience in the following areas:
- Cardiology and intermediate care
- Critical care
- Clinical oncology
- Pharmacy leadership and administration
Staffing commitment
All PGY-1 residents provide approximately 35 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.