Aurora Health Care©

Pharmacy residency programs

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Aurora at a Glance

  • Largest not-for-profit health care system in Wisconsin
  • Serving patients throughout eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois
  • Largest cardiac transplant center in the Midwest
  • Fully integrated health care system encompassing 15 hospitals, numerous ambulatory, diagnostic and treatment centers, home health care, social services agencies, physician clinics, retail pharmacies and more
  • Department of Pharmacy Services is affiliated with Concordia University Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy.

Residency Program

Goal

The PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency is structured to provide a broad base of skills, knowledge and experience to the entry-level practitioner. Candidates interested in careers as clinical pharmacists in the acute and/or ambulatory care setting are encouraged to apply.

Rotation Sites – Residents may complete rotations at several different rotation sites

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
  • Wisconsin’s largest private hospital, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center is internationally known for its expertise in heart care. Located on the south side of Milwaukee, Aurora St. Luke’s also offers exceptional specialty care in areas such as cancer treatment, digestive diseases, abdominal/cardiothoracic transplant and neurology. It is the home of the Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic.
Aurora Sinai Medical Center
  • A teaching hospital located in downtown Milwaukee, Aurora Sinai Medical Center offers unique pharmaceutical care experiences including neonatal/perinatal care, geriatrics, Parkinson disease, internal medicine and medical intensive care.
Aurora Psychiatric Hospital
  • Child, adolescent, adult and older adult services are provided on an outpatient, partial hospital, residential and inpatient basis at Aurora Psychiatric Hospital in Wauwatosa.

Specific Learning Experiences

Residents will complete core learning experiences in drug policy, administration, adult medicine and ambulatory care and customize their residency by choosing elective experiences based on individual needs and interests.

  • Ambulatory care: Family medicine clinic, epilepsy clinic, anticoagulation clinic, geriatrics clinic, transplant clinic, outpatient psychiatry services and outpatient oncology clinic
  • Clinical teaching: Pharmacy students, interns, teaching certificate option
  • Critical care: Cardiovascular surgery, cardiology and cardiac ICU, solid organ and cardiac transplant, surgical ICU, medical respiratory ICU, neuro/neurosurgical ICU, neonatal ICU, operating room services and infectious disease
  • Drug use policy: Medication use evaluation, Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee, drug information, development of clinical policies and procedures, drug policy, medication safety and investigational drug protocols
  • Medicine: General/internal medicine, medicine teaching service, geriatrics, Parkinson disease, hospice and inpatient psychiatry services
  • Oncology: Stem Cell transplant, immunotherapy, and inpatient and outpatient oncology services
  • Orientation: Computer systems, drug distribution, personnel, policies, workflow and department structure
  • Practice management: Budgeting, personnel management, financial management, managed care, development and implementation of new services and hospice services
  • Professional development: Year-long residency project, rotation projects, in-services, staffing, visits to other institutions, professional organizations, teaching and precepting, ACPE continuing education presentations, interviewing/recruiting and medication safety experiences

Candidate Qualifications

  • Graduate of an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy
  • Eligible for pharmacist licensure in Wisconsin
  • U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.
  • The Pharmacy Residency programs at Aurora Health Care participate in the Residency Matching Program (“The Match”). Employment with Aurora Health Care as a pharmacy resident is contingent upon the applicant satisfying Aurora Health Care’s employment eligibility requirements.

Quality Benefits

Each resident is eligible for full-time employee benefits. This includes medical/dental insurance, 23 days paid time off and travel support.

Stipend

We update competitive salaries annually. The current stipend is $52,000.

Application Information

Each candidate must submit the following application materials: letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation and pharmacy school transcripts. Letters of recommendation should be sent by the reference directly to the program rather than by the applicant. Pharmacy school transcripts should be sent by the school directly to the program rather than by the applicant. No separate application form is required. All application materials must be received by January 10. Letter of interest must specify which program you are applying for (PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Milwaukee, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Aurora West Allis Medical Center, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Green Bay, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency, PGY1 and PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration, PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration, PGY2 Oncology or PGY2 Critical Care). Letter of interest must also specify your career goal, why you are interested in a residency, what you are looking for in a residency and why you are applying for a residency specifically at Aurora Health Care. Application materials may be submitted electronically to pharmacy.residency@aurora.org or by mail to Julie Dagam at the address listed below. Applicants will be contacted for an on-site interview. The Pharmacy Residency programs at Aurora Health Care participate in the Residency Matching Program (“The Match”) and agree that no person at the sites will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.

Contact

Program Director
Julie Dagam, Pharm.D., BCPS

Vice President of Pharmacy Services
Tom Woller, M.S., FASHP

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Department of Pharmacy Services
2900 W. Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53215
E-mail: pharmacy.residency@aurora.org

PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Class of 2011-2012

PGY1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Class of 2011-2013

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