Pharmacy Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) Practice Residency - Rochester, Minn.

Program Description
Pharmacists successfully completing the one-year Pharmacy Practice Residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester will be proficient practitioners providing advanced pharmaceutical care services to patients in multiple settings.

You will understand how to manage a pharmacy practice effectively and efficiently, while demonstrating professional maturity and sound ethical character.

While interacting with health-care professionals, residents, students, patients and their caregivers to optimize drug therapy outcomes, you will learn to communicate effectively and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills.

The skills needed to evaluate the literature and to conduct a major project will be developed and refined. You will be able to identify and promulgate drug use policies in cooperation with medical staff and administration. A commitment to the process of personal continuous improvement will be evident.

The program includes all the elements that create an exceptional education experience:

• A challenging, high-quality curriculum
• State-of-the-art diagnostic, therapeutic and research facilities
• A diverse patient population
• A favorable faculty ratio
• An environment based on teamwork and mutual support

Accreditation
The Pharmacy Practice Residency Program at Mayo Clinic is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) (www.ashp.org).

Mayo Foundation is also accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Higher Learning Commission.

Higher Learning Commission
30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60602-2504
(800) 621-7440
(312) 263-0456
Fax: (312) 263-7462
www.ncacihe.org

Facilities
The Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester is comprised of an extensive outpatient complex, Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester Methodist Hospital, as well as multiple research and education facilities. It is among the largest, most advanced medical centers in the world.

Pharmacy Services
Mayo Clinic’s Pharmacy Services employs about 300 people, including approximately 130 pharmacists. The pharmacies operate 24 hours per day and provide pharmaceutical services, including:

• Central pharmacy distribution
• Computerized intravenous admixture and unit dose dispensing
• Investigational drug studies
• Decentralized pharmacist practice
• Wireless pharmacy computer access
• Computerized documentation of pharmacist-performed clinical activities and
  interventions.
• Pharmacokinetic monitoring
• Patient education programs
• Clinical pharmacy specialty practices
• Drug information programs
• In-service education
• Pharmacy, therapeutics and formulary committee support
• Physician newsletters

Mayo Clinic uses a computer-based pharmaceutical care (P-Care) monitoring system. P-Care integrates data from disparate computer systems, including pharmacy, admissions, laboratory and microbiology. Computerized algorithms utilize this data to alert pharmacists to potential situations where therapy, safety or costs can be improved. Performing daily pharmaceutical care duties, P-Care is used to:

• Provide patient demographic data, laboratory data, microbiology data, medications, parenteral nutrition information and drug levels while on team rounds, during order processing and during medication profile review.
• Identify patients whose medication therapy requires a pharmacist's daily review.
• Identify and review treatments that are inconsistent with established medication rule-based algorithms.
• Document pharmacist-performed clinical activities, interventions and monitoring notes.
• Provide a forum for pharmacists, pharmacy residents and pharmacy students to communicate pertinent patient-specific, medication-related issues.

Graduation and Certification
Upon successful completion of your Pharmacy Practice Residency, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo School of Health Sciences.

Residents' Achievements
The most important sign of the success of a training program is how its graduates fare as they begin their careers. Graduates of the Mayo Clinic Pharmacy Practice Residency have consistently found immediate employment in hospital pharmacy practice, industry and academia. About one-third of the program’s graduates have accepted positions within Mayo Clinic.

Hours
For the majority of the residency, your learning schedule will include eight-hour days, five days per week. In addition, pharmacy residents provide practice coverage every third weekend in a central or decentral pharmacy area.

Positions
Each year, Mayo School of Health Sciences admits up to four residents to its Pharmacy Practice Residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. This ensures you will receive a comprehensive educational experience with extensive one-on-one instruction.