PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency
Program Expectations

The resident is expected to achieve the objectives of the Pharmacy Practice Residency Program related to both administrative and professional practice skills. The resident reports to and is supervised by the rotation preceptor and the residency director.

Responsibilities of the resident include:

1. Development of personal goals for the residency following an initial evaluation of career interests, prior experience, and areas of strength and weakness.
2.
Compliance with rotation expectations:
 
a.
meeting with the rotation preceptor to define individual goals and objectives for the rotation.
 
b.
completing assignments by the end of the rotation.
 
c.
scheduling routine meetings with rotation preceptor.
 
d.
informing the residency director of difficulties encountered in meeting goals and objectives or problems with preceptors.
 
e.
assuming responsibility of the rotation preceptor in his/her absence.
 
f.
preparing a written evaluation of each rotation at its conclusion that includes accomplishment of objectives, experiences gained, and evaluation of the rotation site and preceptor with recommendations for improvement.
3. Completion of quarterly self-evaluation reports to be reviewed by the residency directors. The purpose of these reports will be to assure that the established residency goals are being achieved.
4. Provision of pharmacy staffing coverage. This will be achieved by working every other weekend performing distributive and decentralized pharmacist functions.
5. Maintenance of active membership in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
6. Completion of a major residency project and medication use evaluation.
7. Provision of several required presentations throughout the residency, including journal club presentations, residency conferences, ambulatory care morning reports, inservices to housestaff physicians and nursing personnel, and pharmacy staff development conferences.
8. Submission of articles to the P&T Forum, ADR of the Month, and other departmental newsletters.
9. Attendance at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Eastern States Conference for Pharmacy Residents and Preceptors. Attendance at applicable local pharmaceutical education programs is expected. Residents may attend other professional meetings if the staffing schedule permits.