Residency Showcase Program Listings

Affectionately known as the “Baby Hospital,” Ascension St. Joseph is a community teaching hospital providing acute and subacute services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
with extensive outpatient services, a bustling emergency department and nationally recognized  maternity and critical care services.

Our hospital has been serving the community with compassion since 1879, with the pharmacy residency training program established in 2004. Pharmacy residents at Ascension St. Joseph are integral members of both the department and hospital, and allow us to provide comprehensive pharmacy services to our patients. The pharmacy residency program is headquartered at Ascension St. Joseph with resident training
also conducted at a sister campus, Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital – Elmbrook Campus, and an off-site chemotherapy infusion center.

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
Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Emergency Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Internal Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Pharmacy Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Experiential Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1 week
Formulary Management. . . . . longitudinal (8 weeks)
Medication Safety. . . . . . . . . . .  longitudinal (11 mos.)
Research Project. . . . . . . . . . . .  longitudinal (11 mos.)
Pharmacy Practice/Staffing. . . longitudinal (11 mos.)

Acute Care Electives
Critical Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Critical Care II............................................................. 5 weeks

Infectious Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
NICU/Women’s Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks

Emergency Medicine I............................................5 weeks

Emergency Medicine II...........................................5 weejs

Ambulatory Care Electives

Family Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 weeks
Chronic Disease Management (Virtual). . . . 5 weeks
Thrombosis/Anticoagulation Clinic. . . . . . . . 5 weeks

Ambulatory Care Mix (Cardiology, Bariatrics, Pain management)............5 weeks

Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services Management...........5 weeks

Outpatient Oncology......................................................................5 weeks

Teaching certificate available through Concordia University

Expectations during the residency year
• Licensure in the state of Wisconsin within
90 days of starting the program
• Advanced CardiovascularLlife Support certification
• Attend leadership development meetings
• Resident attendance at every cardiac and
respiratory arrest while on-site
• Attendance at Milwaukee citywide residency
conferences
• Completion of a yearlong residency project
with presentation of findings and a manuscript
• Serve as a clinical preceptor for Introductory
Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) and
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience
(APPE) students
Staffing requirement
• Residents will staff every third weekend.
• Centralized and decentralized staffing

Application requirements
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 must be uploaded into PhORCAS

About Ascension Wisconsin

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

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