The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency offers a flexible design to accommodate the needs of each resident in a dynamic academic medical center to develop exceptional clinical pharmacists prepared to accept PGY2 positions or employment in a variety of settings. Pharmacy residents in our program are immersed in patient care pharmacotherapy opportunities consisting of several different practice areas in one location in Hershey, PA. Project management and presentation skills are emphasized throughout the program.

Required learning experiences: Adult Internal Medicine, Adult Critical Care, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Advanced Medicine, and Practice Management

Required longitudinal experiences: Clinical On Call including ACLS code response, Clinic: Anticoagulation Clinic and either HIV or Solid Organ Transplant Clinic, Pharmacy Student Precepting, Hospital Pharmacy Practice (staff every 3rd weekend and one evening every 3rd week), ACPE Presentation, MUE, Research Project

Elective learning experiences: Adult Bone Marrow Transplant, Adult Hematology, Adult Oncology, Ambulatory Care Clinic, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine Inpatient, Heart and Vascular Intensive Care, HIV Ambulatory, Infectious Diseases, Medical Critical Care, Medication Safety, Neonatal Critical Care, Neuroscience Critical Care, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Critical Care, Solid Organ Transplantation Inpatient, Solid Organ Transplantation Ambulatory, Surgical Trauma Anesthesia Critical Care