Residency Showcase Program Listings

If you would like to apply to both of our PGY1 programs, feel free!  We'll probably notice as we pay attention to that sort of thing, but we assign no meaning or significance to it other than the fact that you may be interested in both programs.  Thanks!

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General Description

Saint Joseph Health System is proud to offer one Pharmacy Resident position in a 54 week, ASHP accredited, PGY1 Pharmacy residency program that takes place in the hospital setting. The residency year is comprised of both elective and required block rotations in addition to required longitudinal rotations. It is designed to graduate 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 Experiences

• Academia/Teaching
• Administration
• Adult general medicine
• Infectious disease
• Critical care
• Nutrition support
• Orientation
• Pharmacotherapy - Ambulatory
• Practice management
• Residency project
• Staffing (every other weekend with the following Monday off)
• Transitions of care

Elective Experiences

• Annual wellness visits
• Anticoagulation
• Cardiology
• Diabetes
• Emergency Medicine
• Home Infusion
• Medication safety
• NICU/Peds
• Pain/palliative care
• Pharmacotherapy/MTM
• Sister Maura Brannick Health Center

Teaching Experiences

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 precept pharmacy student and participate in the preceptorship of medical resident rotations.  Residents are able to participate in the Indiana Pharmacy Teaching Certificate

 Residency Pearls Beyond Our Stellar Preceptors and Curriculum

• Our residency programs are very collegial. You will feel like you are part of a class of 40 residents.
• We expect our residents to become autonomous. The family medicine general medicine service will become your longitudinal responsibility.
• Our alumni network is vast and ALL alumni freely give back to the program on an annual basis.

Number of Available Positions

One 

Salary

$55,876 over 54 weeks (the contract will state $53,807 as Annual Base (52 weeks)

Benefits

• Paid lunches
• Sign on bonus (Formerly called 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
• Laptop provided

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

The deadline for application is Jan. 2.

For more program specific information, please see:

• Our website at: https://www.sjmed.com/pharmacy-residency

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

About Saint Joseph Health System - Mishawaka, Indiana

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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