Administrative residents complete both direct patient care and clinical management rotations during the first year. The second year will focus on advanced administrative rotations.
First-year rotations
- Clinical practice in a variety of clinical areas
- Clinical management
- Pharmacy operations and medication-use systems, inpatient and consolidated services center
- Retail pharmacy management
- Specialty pharmacy management
- Infusion and Clinic Services
- Residency program director rotation and recruitment (longitudinal)
- Drug policy program and medication use evaluation (longitudinal)
- Fundamentals of pharmacy informatics (longitudinal)
- Medication safety (longitudinal)
Second-year rotations
- Executive pharmacy leadership
- Advanced practice and operations
- Ambulatory services leadership
- Supply Chain and 340B Leadership
- Leadership trainee experience (“Interim Manager”)
- Capital and operational budget (longitudinal)
- Two required selections:
- Drug Policy Management
- Oncology Service Line
- Advanced Supply Chain
- Community Hospital Management
- Advanced Compounding
- Business Infrastructure Oversight
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Infusion Center Integration
- Pharmacy Research Center
- Five additional weeks of elective time
Projects
- PGY1: Clinical or Administrative Project
- PGY2: Master of Science Research Project
Presentation opportunities and professional meetings
- Weekly resident seminar
- Resident report presentations
- Educational presentations and inservices on clinical rotations
- Team and staff meeting leadership
- Nursing and pharmacy student orientation to pharmacy services
- Major projects are presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conference and Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Annual Meeting and Educational Conference.
Teaching opportunities
- Clinical instructor status at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
- Lecturer and small group discussion leader for UW School of Pharmacy course and participant in the Leadership Course led by our department within the UW School of Pharmacy
- Preceptorship of fourth-year students on clinical rotation at the hospital
- Contributions to clinical faculty discussions with students
- Teaching certificate program for residents at area hospitals (optional)
Other activities
- Weekly resident lunch seminars with hospital administrators to discuss administrative topics
- Patient and medication safety involvement
- Participation on various patient care committees
- Participation in resident community service projects
- Opportunities to interact with residents in a variety of practice specialties
- Monthly coffees with the Senior Director of Pharmacy
- Weekly lunch with Residency Program Director and Residency Program Coordinator
Travel
- ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conference
- ASHP Leadership Conference
- Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Annual Meeting
- Pharmacy Administrative Residency Exchange
- Site visits to other health systems and residency programs
Required Master’s coursework
- MS coursework is completed throughout four semesters
- Tuition is fully covered by UW Health
- 36 successful credits are required for degree completion
- The sequence of course work is dependent on course availability and is instructor dependent
- Requirements and elective courses