Pharmacy residency programs

During the pharmacy residency: 

• Resident will enhance their skills to provide direct patient care in a hospital setting in which the resident contributes and actively participates in daily patient care activities.
• Resident will develop and implement innovative pharmacy services as well as expand and maintain existing programs.
• Resident will learn to make appropriate recommendations in clinical problem solving and decision making by assessing patient-specific medical problems, evaluating drug therapies, and designing comprehensive medication management plans.
• Resident will have the opportunity to educate pharmacy students through active teaching in introductory and/or advanced clinical pharmacy practice experiences and didactic education.
• Resident will complete a residency project suitable for publication and presentation.
• Resident will develop verbal and written communication skills by providing education to patients and other healthcare professionals.
• Resident will learn to appropriately document clinical interventions and patient education in a computerized medical record system.
• Resident will obtain the skills to integrate data obtained from multiple sources to derive an overall conclusion or answer to a drug information inquiry.

Our pharmacy department is affiliated with multiple local college of pharmacy programs: Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University College of Pharmacy and University of Illinois Retzky College of Pharmacy.  Residents have the opportunity to complete a teaching certificate through Rosalind Franklin University. 

• First combined VA-DoW health care facility in the nation; serves Active Duty military members, military dependents and Veterans
• Providing patient care supported by evidence-based policies and procedures
• Located near public transportation with easy access to downtown Chicago and minutes from Lake Michigan

Applications for the PGY1 and PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Programs should be submitted through the
Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS) http://www.ashp.org/phorcas.

Please include the following in your application submission:

• Letter of intent
• CV
• College of Pharmacy transcripts
• 3 letters of recommendation

The deadline to submit your application is the first Friday of January.

Candidates will be notified of interview status no later than February 10.

This residency site agrees that no person at this site will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.

Appointment is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a physical exam, including negative drug test. 

Applicants must meet requirements for federal employment.  Residents are required to obtain a pharmacist’s license in any state within 120 days of employment. 

Duration: 12 months

Starting Date: Approximately July 1st

• Accreditation: ASHP
• ASHP code: 41350
• NMS code: 154213
• Number of positions: 2
• Estimated salary: $54,000
• Staffing: One weekend per month
• Vacation days: 13
• Sick days: 13
• Paid federal holidays: 11
• Health benefits: optional

• Acute Care
• Administrative
• Ambulatory Care - PACT
• Critical Care
• Home-Based Primary Care
• Inpatient Pharmacy
• Orientation
• Outpatient Psychiatry

• Advanced Acute Care
• Cardiology
• Emergency Department
• Formulary Management/ Pharmacoeconomics
• Gastroenterology
• Hematology/Oncology
• Inpatient Psychiatry
• Informatics
• Infectious Disease
• Medical Home Port Ambulatory Care
• Medication Safety
• Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment programs
• Pain
• Pharmacogenomics
• Primary Care Mental Health Integration
• Women’s Health

• Adverse drug event reporting
• Community living center
• Grand rounds
• Home-based primary care
• Inpatient practice
• Leadership workshop series
• Medication use evaluation
• Research or quality assurance/quality improvement project
• Teaching certificate through Rosalind Franklin University
• Topic discussions

Duration: 12 months

Starting date: Approximately July 1st

• Accreditation: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
• ASHP code: 41012
• NMS code: 636466
• Number of positions: 2
• Estimated salary: $58,000
• Vacation days: 13
• Sick days: 13
• Paid federal holidays: 11
• Health benefits: Optional

• Acute inpatient psychiatry
• Domiciliary programs
• Orientation
• Outpatient mental health clinic
• Primary care mental health integration

• Advanced Inpatient Psychiatry
• Home Based Primary Care and Mental Health
• Neurology/traumatic brain injury*
• Pain Management*
• Psychiatry Consult Liaison*
• Substance Use Disorder Clinic
• US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD-VASH)

*Must choose at least one of these selections

• Grand rounds
• Harm reduction
• Leadership workshop series
• Psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Research/quality improvement
• Topic discussion

• Clozapine monitoring
• Coordinating IPPE/APPE students
• Exposure to population health management
• Involvement in development and data collection for facility-wide clinical quality improvement measures
• Pharmacist-run esketamine clinic
• Pharmacy benefits management via P&T committee and prior authorization consult evaluation
• Projects including a newsletter, journal clubs, grand rounds presentation, case presentations and drug-information requests
• Teaching certificate through Rosalind Franklin University, including:
  • Co-precepting pharmacy students
  • Providing lectures
  • Topic discussions
  • Workshops

Duration: 12-month residency

Starting date: Approximately July 1st

• Accreditation: ASHP
• ASHP code: 41071
• NMS code: 746065
• Number of positions: 2
• Estimated salary: $58,000
• Vacation days: 13
• Sick days: 13
• Paid federal holidays: 11
• Health benefits: optional

• Home-based primary care (HBPC) - Longitudinal rotation
• Medical Home Port Primary Care
• Orientation
• Patient-Aligned Care Team (PACT)

• Academia
• Administration
• Cardiology
• Formulary Management/Pharmacoeconomics
• Gastroenterology/Hepatology
• Hematology/Oncology
• Infectious Disease
• Informatics
• Medication Safety and Medication Management
• Mental Health Outpatient
• Pain
• Patient-Aligned Care Team (PACT) VISN 12 Clinical Resources Hub
• Primary Care Mental Health Integration
• Pulmonary
• Renal Transplant
• Rheumatology
• Substance Use Disorder 

• Grand Rounds
• Harm Reduction
• Leadership Workshop Series
• Pharmacy Practice
• Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Project
• Topic Discussion

• Coordinating IPPE/APPE students
• Exposure to population health management
• Involvement in development and data collection for facility-wide clinical quality improvement measures.
• Pharmacy benefits management via P&T committee and prior authorization consult evaluation
• Projects including a newsletter, journal clubs, grand rounds presentation, case presentations and drug-information requests
• Teaching certificate through Rosalind Franklin University (RFU), including: co-precepting pharmacy students and providing lectures, topic discussions and workshops