Training That Prepares You for a Clinical Career

At Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, we believe strongly in the effectiveness of patient-centered, clinical pharmacy practice. It’s a philosophy that’s supported across the Providence St. Joseph organization.

Post-Graduate Year 1 Residency Program

Our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency is an accredited program designed to meet the requirements outlined by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Residents receive training and experience in clinical, administrative and distributive pharmacy. Each resident completes a project related to pharmacy practice. Our affiliation with Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences offers numerous academic opportunities.

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency offers the benefit of a unique training program. It takes advantage of a large medical center that provides complex specialty care and has a progressive pharmacy department. The wide variety of rotations and learning experiences within the acute care setting is a strength of our program. A required ambulatory care experience produces a well-rounded graduate. Everything you learn about pharmacy practice will be based in our patient-centered mission of providing compassionate care.

Staffing requirements provide hands-on experience which exposes residents to real-life clinical and operational situations. The residents will gain experience in weekend clinical services and core pharmacy services (order verification/IV room). This prepares graduates to be able to provide traditional and advanced pharmaceutical care services to a wide variety of patients in diverse practice settings.

You’ll Be Trained in One of Washington’s Leading Medical Centers

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital is an acute care, general and referral center. It offers a full range of adult and pediatric care for 644 beds. We are consistently recognized as a leader in health care quality, safety, and technology. The medical center’s size and scope offer numerous opportunities for learning.

You’ll Be Part of a Progressive Pharmacy Department

Our commitment to patient care has decentralized clinical pharmacists providing services to the entire hospital. The pharmacists are relied on as a valuable member of the care team. Pharmacists provide oversight and input in medication therapy by participating in multidisciplinary rounds, profile review and intervention, dosing protocols, drug information, management of emergency situations, hospital & medical staff education, committee participation, protocol development and medication utilization evaluation. These longstanding practices have resulted in excellent relationships with our medical and nursing staffs.

The clinical pharmacy services provide the basis for the wide variety of rotations. Under the direct supervision of their pharmacist preceptor, residents are actively engaged in each aspect of the care carried out by the pharmacy team.

Expand Your Pharmacy Leadership Skills

Residents will complete a performance or quality improvement project related to a particular aspect of pharmacy practice, which will span over the length of their residency and provide numerous opportunities to develop leadership skills. Projects are selected by the residents from a list of opportunities identified as an area of departmental need which ensures appropriate level of support for successful completion. During the pharmacy administration rotation, the resident will work with leaders to develop and improve projects and attend department, hospital and system meetings. In addition, participation in management chats throughout the year will help the resident develop an understanding of pharmacy department responsibilities and influence.

Rotations Offered

Required:

• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Critical Care
• Pediatrics (NICU and General Peds)
• Cardiology
• Emergency Medicine
• Oncology
• Internal Medicine
• Pharmacy Administration

Electives:

• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Pediatric Oncology
• Psychiatry
• Nephrology

Ambulatory Care Options:

• Outpatient
• Pharmacotherapy Clinic
• Teaching Health Clinic
• Transplant (Cardiothoracic/Renal/Pancreas)

Take Advantage of Our Affiliation with Washington State University

Our relationship with the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences affords our residents many opportunities throughout the year. As a resident, you’ll have teaching opportunities throughout the curriculum including didactic lectures, small group teaching in Applied Patient Care Laboratory, journal club and assistance with precepting 4th-year students on rotations. In the broadest sense, our affiliation encourages an academically motivated environment. Our residents obtain adjunct faculty status as clinical instructors and complete the teaching certificate program.

You Get the Support of One of the West’s Largest Health Care Organizations

Providence St. Joseph Health System is one of the largest health care providers in the west with facilities in Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Texas. One of the reasons pharmacy school graduates and residents decide to join us is that our clinical setting allows them to do much more of what they’ve trained to do. As a teaching center, you get to work alongside medical residents and be involved in variety of formal and informal teaching and learning opportunities. The direct involvement in patient care and patient contact allows you to experience the rewards that come from the development of a practitioner-patient relationship. Implementation of a system-wide electronic medical record, has allowed us to provide efficient and quality care to all patients within Providence across the continuum of care.

Receive Salary, Benefits and Travel Opportunities

As a pharmacy resident, you will be an employee of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and you will qualify for employee benefits. Your benefits package will include Medical, Prescription, Vision, and Dental coverage (for you and your dependents), and paid time off. The residency program supports travel to a regional and national meeting.

Spokane and the Inland Northwest

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is located in Spokane (approximately 280 miles east of Seattle) in the Inland Northwest. The area is surrounded by a variety of nature and landscapes including rolling wheat fields, forests, snow-capped mountains, and clear lakes, with a river at the center of the city. Spokane has four seasons which accommodates a wide variety of outdoor activities. With several colleges nearby, it is host to college sporting events and community sports, including Hoopfest (the largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the world) and Bloomsday (the second largest timed road race in America).

To Apply

Completed applications will only be accepted through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS) at ashp.org/PhORCAS no later than January 5, 2020.

Contact Information

Marjan Milani, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Residency Program Director
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center
101 West 8th Avenue, PO Box 2555
Spokane, WA 99204
509-474-7097
marjan.milani@providence.org