Our Hospital:

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution that provides pediatric health care and helps our patients more than 528,000 times each year in a setting designed just for their needs. Our history began in 1901 in a small house on the corner of Alpine and Castelar Streets (now Hill St. in Chinatown) and today our medical experts offer more than 350 pediatric specialty programs and services to meet the needs of our patients. CHLA was the first pediatric hospital in Southern California.

Awards:

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has a reputation as an award-winning hospital. Whether it is for our national ranking for providing significant and comprehensive medical care and programs that meet a sick child’s entire needs or continuing to raise the bar nationally on our patient safety and quality health care programs within our walls, we continue to be a hospital that sets the standard of care. We were ranked No. 1 hospital for children in California, No. 1 in the Western U.S. and a top 5 pediatric hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Our Residency:

PGY1 pharmacy residency programs builds on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.

Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent practitioners, with the added benefit of experience in a world-class acute-care environment. As a part of the multidisciplinary team, they will manage drug therapy for common pediatric disease states and provide safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care. The rotations will enable the pharmacy residents to gain exposure to a wide variety of pediatric subspecialties and prepare candidates to be pediatric pharmacists in acute-care settings or to advance to a PGY2 training in their area of choice.

Core Rotations:

• Orientation (4 weeks)
• General Pediatrics (8 weeks)
• Infectious Disease (4 weeks)
• Oncology (4 weeks)
• Pediatric Intensive Care (6 weeks)
• Neonatal Intensive Care (4 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
• Staffing (4 weeks)

Longitudinal Rotations:

• Outpatient Clinic
• Staffing
• Pharmacy Newsletter
• Residency Research Project
• Continuing Education

Elective Rotations:

• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care
• Advanced General Pediatrics
• Informatics
• Transplant
• Advanced Oncology/BMT
• Advanced Emergency Medicine
• Advanced Intensive Care
• Advanced Infectious Disease