Practice Area Rotations

The Pharmacy Practice Residency Program prepares practitioners through mentored training and clinical experiences. Rotations are uniquely designed to suit individual needs and interests of pharmacy residents.

The program is structured according to ASHP’s (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) Residency Learning System. In addition to orientation and a residency project, there are six required rotations and three required longitudinal experiences. Elective specialty rotations are also available.

Orientation & Concentrated Learning - 6 to 8 Weeks

These areas are to be covered early in the residency. Residents are expected to acquire the general skills necessary to care for patients in their required longitudinal or required rotations. The typical length of a rotation is four to eight weeks for these and other learning experiences in the Hospital and Pharmacy Orientation.

Certifications/Concentrated Learning:

Required Rotations - 34 to 38 Weeks

The resident is expected to consecutively build on knowledge from previous rotations or learning experiences when caring for patients. For example, if a resident has completed the Internal Medicine rotation, we’ll expect the resident to apply internal medicine knowledge to a patient they’re following in the critical care rotation.

The following rotations (listed in no particular order) have defined durations:

These are specialty rotations, some of which may be done off-site. The resident should be able to apply knowledge gained from these experiences in later rotations or experiences as applicable. The possibilities are not limited to the following list. Additional weeks of the required rotations may be added here.