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General Description

Saint Joseph Health System is proud to offer three Pharmacy Resident positions in a 52 week, ASHP accredited, PGY2 Ambulatory Care pharmacy residency program. Alongide our PGY1 pharmacy residency program and our family medicine residency program this residency calls the  Saint Joseph Health System Family Medicine Center home with some clinics conducted on site as well as some conducted throughout our physician network. The residency year is comprised of both elective and required experiences combined in a semester fashion.  Yep, we know it's nontraditional. Feel free to ask us about it. The curriculum of the PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program emulates the practice of the Pharmacy Residency faculty. Patient care, teaching, practice management and project management occur longitudinally across the entire residency year. These practical and realistic experiences will develop an exemplary ambulatory care pharmacist who is proficient and compassionate in all interactions with patients, learners and colleagues, as well as a humble leader within the profession of Pharmacy.

Required Experiences

• Academia/Teaching
• Administration
• Annual Wellness Visits
• Anticoagulation Management
• Diabetes
• Geriatrics/Nursing Home
• Home Visits
• Orientation
• Pharmacotherapy Clinic --  various patients: Asthma, Diabetes, Anticoagulation, Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss...etc
• Physician Network Quality Metrics -- Medication Adherence Calls
• Practice Management
• Residency Project
• Team Pharmacist
• Transitions of Care— Ambulatory

Elective Experiences

• Cardiology/CHF
• Faculty Practice
• Geriatrics
• Global Health Track (Absolutely able to give time; financial support sometimes -- pending approval of organization)
• Health System Outpatient Pharmacy
• Home Infusion
• Infectious Disease - Ambulatory
• Neurology
• Pharmacotherapy - additional clinics of your own
• Psychopharmacotherapy
• Pulmonology
• Self Designed Rotations -- Feel free to ask us about them
• Wellness and Weight Management

Teaching Experiences

You can't turn around without teaching someone: patients, students, residents, even faculty. Residents have the opportunity to complete didactic lectures for pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and medical residents at Saint Joseph Health System. In addition to this, residents have the lecture opportunities at colleges of pharmacy. Residents are given the opportunity to create development plans for the incoming PGY1 class, create and lead the residency didactics and leadership sessions, precept pharmacy students, PGY1 pharmacy residents, and PGY2 and PGY3 medical residents. If you have not done one, residents are able to participate in the Indiana Pharmacy Teaching Certificate

 Residency Pearls Beyond Our Stellar Preceptors and Curriculum

• The Mission of Saint Joseph Health Center is very tangible on a daily basis.
• We focus on training people who happen to have chosen pharmacy as a profession instead of just training pharmacists.
• Our atmosphere is unique as we are a residency program that grew a department of pharmacy.
• We know our stuff, but we like to have fun. Patient care is serious, not everything else has to be.
• We expect our residents to become autonomous and take great strides to foster independence by intentionally modeling, coaching, and facilitating.
• We graduate a three dimensional pharmacists (even though one and two dimensional pharmacists take up less space). You will be able to treat patients, teach students, and lead into the future.
• Our residency programs are very collegial. You will feel like you are part of a class of 40 residents.
• Our alumni network is vast and ALL alumni freely give back to the program on an annual basis.
• Our pharmacy residency programs were among the first to include training in global health.
• We are unique in having both PGY1 and PGY2 ambulatory care residency programs.

Number of Available Positions

Three

Salary

$50659 over 52 weeks 

Benefits

• Paid lunches
• Sign on Bonus (Formerly relocation stipend)
• 15 days paid time off plus holidays
• Five days for continuing education
• Continuing education stipend
• Reimbursement for BPS exam, , budget permitting or through continuing education stipend
• Reimbursement for ACCP and ASHP membership
• Reimbursement for IPTeC, and Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conferences
• Reimbursement for Midyear Clinical Meeting, pending organization approval
• Book stipend

Application

The SJHS Pharmacy Residency requires the following items be uploaded into PhORCAS:

• A formal letter of intent
• Official transcripts from an ACPE-accredited university
• A current curriculum vitae
• Three PhORCAS letters of recommendation

We will require a letter of good standing from the RPD; this may be one of the three letters of recommendation.

The deadline for application is Jan. 2.

For more program specific information, please see:

• our website at: https://www.sjmed.com/pharmacy-residency
• our additional information at our google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YrsRVnKvjkHc2tzekw7qwW8eQ-l_UYoH?usp=sharing
• our guest book at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=GeaRDSxKgEy5WY_fUY5S6GYQBnmzAQBDpgBIEGtoIGVUOTlBNlFFVERLS1Q3UUdGQzlHS0NTVEE4Ui4u

If you have any questions, please contact us at SJ-PharmacyResidency@sjrmc.com. 

 Eligible for licensure in Indiana; Completion of an ASHP accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program.

About Saint Joseph Health System Family Medicine Center

As host to three residency programs for practitioners from medical, podiatric, and pharmacy schools, Saint Joseph Health System offers advanced clinical training in an environment optimized for independent advancement and collaborative learning. Each program offers its trainees unopposed access to patients while having ideal collaborators available through the other residencies. This collaboration mimics the skills new pharmacists and physicians will need to thrive in the future healthcare environment. Through this we offer technological advancement, clinical excellence, and value-based care to our patients and state-of-the-art training to our residents.

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