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PGY1 Pharmacy Residency

Program Type: ASHP accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency 

ASHP Match Number: 137313

 

Purpose Statement

The purpose of The MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center PGY1 residency program is to build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of 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 (PGY-2) pharmacy residency training.

Program Description

The MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center PGY1 Pharmacy residency is a twelve-month postgraduate training that offers a comprehensive set of experiences focused on a four competency areas: 1) patient care; 2) advancing practice and improving patient care; 3)  leadership and management; and 4) teaching, education and dissemination of knowledge. Learning experiences will be tailored to the entering resident’s knowledge, experience, and interests.

Throughout this year-long experience residents are enabled to treat and appropriately triage the most complex chronic and acute illnesses presented by patients in all clinical aspects, including those with multiple disease states and serious complications. Upon completion of training, graduates are equipped to be fully integrated members of the interdisciplinary medical teams, are able to prioritize responsibilities and utilization of resources, and are able to make complex medication recommendations in a fast-paced environment. Residents will participate in journal clubs, case discussions, formal disease state presentations, complete a longitudinal medication use evaluation, and create or revise one guideline, protocol, monograph, or drug class review. Teaching opportunities include attainment of a teaching certificate, facilitating didactic lectures at Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and precepting pharmacy students.

Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent and confident pharmacy practitioners ready to practice independently as generalists or be well prepared for PGY-2 residency training. Graduates of MercyOne’s residency programs will also develop a professional practice encompassing MercyOne’s core values of Integrity, Commitment to those Experiencing Poverty, Compassion, Excellence, Justice, Stewardship, and Reverence. Residents will display a commitment to the profession of pharmacy, desire for continued professional growth, and acquire the experience necessary to exercise leadership for pharmacy practice in the health-care system and teach other health professionals and those in training to be health professionals.

Program Goals:

  1. To prepare highly qualified clinical pharmacists to successfully serve healthcare organizations as the ultimate resource for medication therapy.
  2. To train future pharmacy leaders who will work to improve medication use and medication safety within an organization.
  3. To enhance residents’ presentation, writing and teaching skills for anticipated job responsibilities that will include precepting pharmacy students and residents, and providing education on medication therapy to various healthcare professionals.
  4. To equip residents with skills and knowledge necessary to successfully obtain and complete desired PGY-2 residency training.

 

Learning Experiences

Required Learning Experiences 

  1. Orientation (5 weeks)
  2. Internal Medicine (5 weeks)
  3. Emergency Medicine (5 weeks)
  4. Infectious Disease (5 weeks)
  5. Medical Critical Care (5 weeks)
  6. Leadership and Pharmacy Practice (4 weeks)
  7. Clinical Precepting (4 weeks)

Longitudinal Required Learning Experiences 

  1. Staffing 1: Pharmacy Operations and Staffing II: Decentralized Acute Care - 1 year
  2. MUE - 1 year
  3. Monograph/Drug Class Review/Guideline/Protocol - 1 year
  4. Longitudinal Education and Teaching Experience -1 year

Elective Learning Experiences (each 4 weeks long) 

  1. Cardiology
  2. Independent Practice
  3. Oncology
  4. Pediatrics
  5. Rural Health
  6. Surgical Critical Care
  7. Trauma

Any of the required rotations can be repeated as elective rotations. Other learning experiences may be arranged depending on the residents’ interests and experience needs.

Description of Learning Experiences

 

Staffing 

Residents are required to staff every other weekend after completing orientation. The weekends are 8-hour clinical staffing shifts on Saturday and Sunday. Residents are required to work at least 18 weekends during the residency. Each resident will be assigned a pharmacist mentor on their weekend to assist with questions or concerns that arise.

Residents may work additional shifts outside of those required by the residency program at their discretion and in accordance with the duty hour and moonlighting policy.  Additional shifts are compensated with a flat dollar stipend. 

Teaching opportunities

Benefits

Application Process

Application Deadline: January 2, 2025

Program Director

Jenna Rose

Jenna Rose, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Internal Medicine

Residency Program Director, PGY1 Pharmacy

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center, Des Moines, IA

Email: jenna.rose@mercyoneiowa.org

Bio: Jenna Rose, PharmD, BCPS is an internal Medicine Clinical Specialist at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy in 2017 and completed a PGY1/2 Pharmacotherapy residency program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She precepts the Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Teaching and Learning experiences. In May 2022, she became the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director. Her practice and research interests include clinical informatics, medication safety, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes. Outside of work she enjoys reading, golfing, listening to podcasts, trying new restaurants, and cheering on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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