Administrative residents complete both direct patient care and clinical management rotations during the first year. The second year will focus on advanced administrative rotations.
First-Year Rotations
- Clinical practice in a variety of clinical areas including ambulatory care experience
- Clinical management
- Inpatient pharmacy operations and medication use systems
- Pharmacy informatics and data management
- Ambulatory operations and specialty pharmacy
- Supply chain and contracting
- Residency program director rotation and recruitment (longitudinal)
- Drug policy program and medication use evaluation(longitudinal)
- Fundamentals of pharmacy informatics (longitudinal)
- Medication safety (longitudinal)
Second-Year Rotations
- Executive pharmacy leadership
- Integrated pharmacy services
- Advanced inpatient operations
- Ambulatory services leadership
- Interim management experience
- Capital and operational budget (longitudinal)
- Two required selections:
- Drug Policy Management
- Oncology Service Line
- Advanced Supply Chain (340B)
- Community Hospital Management
- Advanced Compounding
- Business Infrastructure Oversight
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Infusion Center Integration
- Pharmacy Research Center
- Six additional weeks of elective time
Projects
- PGY1: Clinical or Administrative Project
- PGY2: Master of Science Research Project
Presentation Opportunities and Professional Meetings
- Weekly resident seminar
- Grand rounds presentations
- Educational presentations and in-services on clinical rotations
- Leadership and staff meetings
- Nursing and pharmacy student orientation to pharmacy services
- Major projects are presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conference and Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Annual Meeting and Educational Conference
Teaching Opportunities
- Clinical instructor status at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
- Lecturer and small group discussion leader for UW School of Pharmacy course and participant in the Leadership Course led by our department within the UW School of Pharmacy
- Preceptorship of fourth-year students on clinical rotation at the hospital
- Contributions to clinical faculty discussions with students
- Teaching certificate program for residents at area hospitals (optional)
Other Activities
- Weekly resident lunch seminars with hospital administrators to discuss administrative topics
- Patient and medication safety involvement
- Participation on various patient care committees
- Participation in resident community service projects
- Opportunities to interact with several residents in the PGY1 practice program and PGY2 specialty programs
- Monthly coffees with the Senior Director of Pharmacy
- Bi-monthly lunch with Residency Program Director
Travel
- ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Pharmacy Administrative Residency Exchange
- ASHP Leadership Conference
- Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Annual Meeting and Educational Conference
- Site visits to other health systems and residency programs
Required Master’s Coursework
- MS coursework is completed throughout four semesters
- Tuition is fully covered by UW Health
- 36 successful credits are required for degree completion
- The sequence of course work is dependent on course availability and is instructor dependent
- Semester 1: Human Resource Management, Health System Pharmacy Data Analysis and Informatics, Graduate Seminar in Health-System Pharmacy, Advanced Independent Study, Engineering Management of Continuous Process Improvement
- Semester 2: Special Topics in Human Factors Engineering, Independent Study: Teaching, Graduate Seminar in Health-System Pharmacy, Advanced Independent Study, one elective course
- Semester 3: Managerial Accounting, Graduate Seminar in Health-System Pharmacy, Advanced Independent Study, one elective course
- Semester 4: Health Systems Management and Policy, Advanced Health-System Pharmacy Administration, Graduate Seminar in Health-System Pharmacy, Advanced Independent Study, one elective course
Elective Classes
- Business and Accounting: Bargaining, Negotiations and Dispute Settlement for Managers
- Industrial Engineering: Engineering Management, Quality Assurance Systems, Human Performance and Accident Causation, Organization and Job Design, Patient Safety and Error Reduction in Health Care
- Human Resource Management: Organizational Behavior, Managing Behavior in Organizations, Entrepreneurial Management, Behavioral Analysis of Decision Making
- Population Health: Principles of Population Health Sciences, Introduction to Epidemiology, Assessment of Medical Technologies