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This 12-month post-graduate year one pharmacy residency training program offers residents the opportunity to gain expertise in various areas of pharmacy practice and to cultivate necessary skills to become a highly skilled pharmaceutical care practitioner. The program consists of core and elective learning experiences that are tailored to each resident’s interests. The residency will serve to foster clinical, distributive, and administrative skills in pharmacy practice. Through a variety of learning experiences, residents will gain confidence to effectively educate patients and healthcare professionals while functioning as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. They will be an integral part of the medication use process. The program will also serve to develop and refine the resident’s writing, presentation, teaching, research, and leadership skills.

The Nuvance Health – Vassar Brothers Medical Center PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program is a 12-month (July – June) post-graduate training program. This program structure may be subject to change to meet individual goals of the resident as determined by the Residency Advisory Committee (RAC).

Required Core Learning Experiences (total 38 weeks):

• Hospital/Pharmacy Orientation
• Critical Care
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Hematology/Oncology
• Cardiology

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences:

• Ambulatory Care Clinic/Diabetes Management
• Inpatient Pharmacy Operations
• Pharmacy Informatics
• Practice Management

Elective Learning Experiences (total 12 weeks):

• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Diabetes Management Clinic
• Neurology
• Health System Leadership
• Pharmacy Compliance

Additional Residency Experiences:

• Teaching certificate
• BLS/ACLS certification
• Research project

About Nuvance Health

Where some see impossible, we see what’s possible. At Nuvance Health, we continually strive for progress and push past the status quo in all aspects of what we do. We are Nuvance Health! Our hospitals, medical practices and care centers are located throughout New York’s Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut. The Nuvance Health Pharmacy Department mission and vision reflect those of Nuvance Health. Mission As the medication experts of Nuvance Health, our mission is to provide safe, high quality, and innovative pharmaceutical care in a sustainable practice model. We will achieve this through collaboration and state-of-the-art technology that supports our diverse communities and advances the pharmacy profession. Vision Our vision heading into the next decade is to ensure all patients have immediate access to safe, evidence-based pharmaceutical care by: •Encompassing alternate delivery sites, health equity needs, financial or other social barriers •Optimizing the use of technology and data science •Further integrating and innovating to be an indispensable resource within the healthcare team •Advancing our profession of pharmacy through engagement and empowering educational growth

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