Our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program welcomed its first two residents in 2004 and received full accreditation by ASHP in 2005. The program has since grown to 11 residents for the 2020-2021 year. The goals of the program are to foster development of leadership, professional education, and comprehensive clinical practice skills such that residents will become effective pharmaceutical care providers in a variety of settings. 

The main practice site, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), is a nationally recognized public teaching facility that provides a full range of acute and ambulatory care services. SCVMC is a Level I Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, Regional Burn Center, STEMI Receiving Center and Stroke Center. Located in San Jose, California, the hospital serves as a county, teaching, and safety-net hospital. The county also operates two community hospitals: O’Connor and St. Louise Regional Hospitals.

We offer three different tracks for our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program that are focused in Ambulatory Care, Acute Care, or Academia. Our wide range of rotation experiences include the following:

• Ambulatory Clinics
• Anticoagulation
• Diabetes
• Geriatrics
• Heart Failure
• HIV
• Homeless Clinic
• Re-Entry Clinic
• Nephrology
• Critical Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Hematology/Oncology
• Infectious Disease
• Managed Care
• Medication Reconciliation
• Public Health
• Specialty Pharmacy
• Inpatient Staffing
• Outpatient Staffing

For more information about our program, we invite you to visit our website here. Thank you for your interest!