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 |
|---|---|
| Orientation | 2 weeks |
| Cardiology and Intermediate Care I | 4 weeks |
| Central Pharmacy Operations | 4 weeks |
| Critical Care I | 4 weeks |
| Internal Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Infectious Disease/Antimicrobial Stewardship | 4 weeks |
| Oncology Clinic I | 4 weeks |
| Primary Care Medication Management Services | 4 weeks |
| Medical Response | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Pharmacy Leadership and Administration | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Research | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 12 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Staffing | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 37 hours per 4 weeks excludes July*: total of 454 hours per year which includes 64 hours of hospitalist rounding divided over 2 weeks,) 32 hours of staffing per 4 weeks or 390 hours per year excluding hospitalist staffing |
| Teaching and Precepting | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 6 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Quality Improvement | 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 experiences
Electives are available in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings that allow you to tailor the program to your needs.
| Area | Length |
|---|---|
| Critical Care II | 2-4 weeks |
| Community Pharmacy Practice | 3 weeks |
| Pharmacy Leadership and Administration | 4 weeks |
| Emergency Medicine I | 4 weeks |
| Emergency Medicine II | 2 weeks |
| Critical Access Hospital | 3 weeks |
| Cardiology and Intermediate Care II | 2-4 weeks |
| Oncology Clinic II | 4 weeks |
| Infusion Clinic | 2-4 weeks |
| Overnight Central Pharmacy Operations | 40-70 hours |
| Pediatrics** (MN Intern License required) | 4 weeks |
| Pharmacy Informatics*** | 4 weeks |
** Rochester, MN-based electives
*** Virtual learning experience
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.