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In Wisconsin, Ascension operates 17 hospital campuses, more than 100 related healthcare facilities and employs more than 1,100 primary and specialty care clinicians from Racine to Appleton. Serving Wisconsin since 1848, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the largest non-profit and Catholic health system in the U.S., operating more than 2,600 sites of care – including 139 hospitals and more than 40 senior living facilities – in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee is a community teaching hospital located in Milwaukee, just north of downtown. The Lake Drive Campus is made up of two hospitals, the Main Hospital and Women’s Medical Center, and two large clinics, Prospect Medical Commons and Water Tower Medical Commons. Average daily inpatient census is approximately 225 patients.

Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s offers advanced cardiovascular and neurological
surgery services, a regional burn center, women’s health services, a neonatal intensive care unit, 48 adult intensive care unit beds, 130 medical/surgical beds, an inpatient behavioral health unit, an inpatient rehabilitation unit and a 45-bed emergency department. Additionally, an outpatient chemotherapy infusion center is part of the campus. Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s serves as the tertiary care referral center for seven Southeastern Wisconsin Ascension hospitals. As a result, the area’s most complex medical and surgical cases come to Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s for care. 

Residency purpose
PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) 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. 

Required rotations
Introduction to Pharmacy Practice. . . . . . . . . 6 weeks
Critical Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Internal Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks

Pharmacy Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Emergency Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Experiential Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 week
Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . longitudinal
Pharmacy Practice (Staffing). . . . . . . . . . . longitudinal

Optional opportunity
Academic rotation at Concordia University
with teaching certificate

Elective opportunities
Antimicrobial Stewardship/ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Chronic Disease Management (Virtual). . . . 5 weeks
Medication Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
NICU and Women’s Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Pharmacy Informatics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Thrombosis/Anticoagulation Clinic. . . . . . . . 5 weeks

Submit to PhORCAS:
• Letter of intent
• Curriculum vitae, including APPE rotations
with preceptors
• Three letters of recommendation
• School/college of pharmacy transcripts
• Supplemental questions available on program
website (above) must be uploaded into PhORCAS 

About Ascension Columbia St. Mary's PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

In Wisconsin, Ascension operates 17 hospital campuses and more than 100 related healthcare facilities and employs more than 1100 primary and specialty care clinicians from Racine to Appleton. Across the state, Ascension provides millions of dollars in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty. Serving Wisconsin since 1848, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the largest non-profit and Catholic health system, operating more than 2,600 sites of care – including 139 hospitals and more than 40 senior living facilities – in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Ascension Wisconsin has five PGY1 Pharmacy residency programs (Ascension St. Elizabeth Ascension St. Joseph, Ascension Columbia St. Mary's, Ascension St. Francis, and Ascension All Saints) and one PGY1 Pharmacy & PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration residency. Please visit our residency website at https://wisconsinmeded.org/en/pharmacy.residency-programs

Connections working at Ascension Columbia St. Mary's PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program