PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Residency

The NorthShore University HealthSystem PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Residency provides broad practice management training in a variety of areas. The goals the program are to produce leaders that can direct the future of the profession and provide patient centered pharmaceutical care that will be prepared to assume high level managerial, supervisory and leadership responsibilities. The resident will gain experience through a wide variety of rotations, teaching opportunities, and involvement in professional activities and meetings.

Rotations Include

• Pharmacy operations and technology
• Clinical practice management
• Finance and resource management
• Ambulatory Services
• Hospital administration
• Purchasing
• Ambulatory pharmacy services
• Medication safety
• and others based on the needs and interests of the resident.

Longitudinal Experiences

• Human resources management
• Pharmacy Informatics
• Pharmacy Leadership
• Major Project

Functioning independently as a clinical pharmacist is an important component of this residency.　 While staffing the inpatient hospital pharmacy, the resident will be expected to be observant, think like a manager, and use the information they gain from direct experience of day-to-day practice to make practice decisions. The staffing component of the PGY2 residency is therefore intended to build upon the knowledge base that they have developed during their first year of residency, and to give them an appreciation of the importance of first-hand information in decision making.

Resident Activities

To ensure comprehensive understanding of health system pharmacy administration, the resident will have the opportunity to participate in the following activities:

• Complete a research project
• Conduct drug utilization evaluation studies
• Conduct in-service training for nursing/pharmacy staff
• Lead journal club discussions
• Participate in recruitment and hiring processes
• Participate in topic discussions
• Write articles for the pharmacy newsletter
• Assist in precepting pharmacy students
• Lecture or teach pharmacy students at an affiliated college of pharmacy
• Actively participate on multidisciplinary committees
• Network with Chicago-land pharmacy directors, managers and residents