Residency Showcase Program Listings

Our 12-month ASHP-accredited Post Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Residency Program offers opportunities for learning and delivering patient-focused care.  Pharmacy residents work as an integral part of Sparrow's health care team collaborating with physicians, nurses, and patients on appropriate medication use.  In addition to rounding with a variety of physician services, residents provide education to caregivers and patients.

Residents will:

- Complete required and elective pharmacy experiences throughout the hospital

- Develop and present an ACPE-accredited continuing education program

- Complete drug monographs and medication use evaluations to be presented at the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee meetings

- Participate in collaborative practice committees

- Complete a residency research project and present at the Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conference

- Author and edit the pharmacy newsletter

- Staff every third weekend (day shift)

- Attend the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting

- Assist in precepting pharmacy and medical students

- Participate in Pharmacy Education and Development Lecture Series (PEDALS) program in association with Ferris State University (optional)

To be eligible to apply for Sparrow's Pharmacy PGY-1 Residency, the following requirements must be met:

- Possess a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from an ACPE-accredited school

- Be a licensed pharmacist or eligible for licensure in Michigan by the start of the residency (licensure is required within two months of entering the program)

- Attend an interview

- Be nicotine-free, to comply with Sparrow's nicotine-free hiring policy

-Note, Sparrow does not sponsor Visas