Children’s Wisconsin (CW) (formerly Children's Hospital of Wisconsin) is a 298-bed acute care pediatric teaching hospital in Milwaukee, WI. CW is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Campus with Froedtert Hospital, the Blood Center of Wisconsin, Children’s Research Institute and is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. We are a tertiary care hospital with a Level 1 trauma center that receives over 10,000 trauma patients per year and have the largest Level 4 NICU in the state of Wisconsin. CW has an internationally recognized bone marrow transplant program; is a center for heart, liver, and kidney transplantation; performs over 500 cardiac procedures per year; and is the only hospital in Wisconsin to be nationally accredited by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Center of Comprehensive Care. The pharmacy department provides centralized distributive services 24 hours a day and has decentralized pharmacists in acute care units, intensive care units, and limited ambulatory clinics.
The PGY-1 pharmacy residency program at Children's Wisconsin is a 12-month, ASHP-accredited program. Our residency provides valuable training in the various aspects of pharmacotherapy and pediatrics through a customizable program comprised of 4, 5, or 6-week rotations. The mission of the post-graduate year one residency program at Children's Wisconsin is to train competent and independent practitioners of pediatric pharmacy in an academic, free-standing, pediatric health-system setting. The first-year residency program builds general pediatric pharmacy foundations in managing care of the pediatric patient, medication use systems specific to pediatric pharmaceutical care, and supports optimal medication therapy outcomes for patients with a broad range of pediatric disease states and achieves this through research, education, and multi-disciplinary teamwork.
Required Rotations:
Orientation (2 weeks)
Central Pharmacy/Nutrition (4 weeks)
Pediatric General Medicine (4 weeks)
Pediatric General Medicine II (4 weeks)
Infectious Disease (4 weeks)
Neonatal Intensive Care (4-6 weeks)
Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant (4-6 weeks)
Pediatric Intensive Care (5-6 weeks)
Administration/Leadership (4 weeks)
Longitudinal rotations:
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Pharmacy Clinical Practice Council
Decentralized pharmacy staffing
Major Research Project
Teaching Certificate – Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Elective Rotations:
Pediatric Infectious Disease (4 weeks)
Solid Organ Transplant Service (4 weeks)
Toxicology (4 weeks)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
Pharmacy Informatics (4 weeks)
Staffing requirements The resident is required to staff every third weekend as well as approximately two weekdays per month. Staffing locations will include central pharmacy, total parenteral nutrition service, and decentralized teams which will provide the resident with the opportunity to attend multidisciplinary rounds.
Required projects
In addition to clinical rotations, the pharmacy resident is expected to complete various projects, including but not limited to:
Present a poster at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
Present research project at the Pediatric Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting and to pharmacy staff
Present one 45-minute presentations to pharmacy personnel
Present two 50 minute presentation co-presented with a co-resident
Present at least one lecture to pharmacy students in a pediatric elective course
Contribute to IPPE and APPE clerkship student rotations
Present patient cases for selected rotations
Present 2 journal club presentations to pharmacy staff.
PGY-1 Residency Program Application Instructions
Register for ASHP’s National Matching Program and with the pharmacy online residency centralized application service, PhORCAS.
Submit the following application materials to PhORCAS at ashp.org/phorcas by Thursday, January 2, 2025.
Standard requirements for an application in PhORCAS includes:
Demographics
Academic History (pharmacy and non-pharmacy colleges attended)
Transcripts
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Statement/Letter of Intent
Extracurricular activities
References (3)
CHW special requirement for application acceptance
Three (3) significant projects that you have completed during the last year (pediatric focus preferred). Upload the entire project directly into PhORCAS in one PDF file (project descriptions will not be accepted). If it is a group project, highlight your section.
Upon submission of applications via PhORCAS, the CHW pharmacy residency council will review all application materials. Individual candidates will be selected for virtual invitations to visit Children’s Wisconsin. The dates available for site visits will be Mondays & Fridays throughout February (2/3, 2/7, 2/10, 2/14, 2/17).
Wisconsin pharmacist licensure or license eligible to graduate of an accredited school
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Transcripts
Three projects that you have completed during the last year (pediatric focus preferred). Upload the entire project directly into PhORCAS in one PDF file (project descriptions will not be accepted). If it is a group project, highlight your section.
Children’s Wisconsin (CW) (formerly Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is a 298-bed acute care pediatric teaching hospital in Milwaukee, WI. Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Campus with Froedtert Hospital, the Blood Center of Wisconsin, Children’s Research Institute and is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. CW is a tertiary care hospital with a Level 1 trauma center that receives over 1,000 trauma admissions per year and has the largest Level 4 NICU in the state of Wisconsin. CW has an internationally recognized bone marrow transplant program; is a center for heart, liver, and kidney transplantation; performs over 500 cardiac procedures per year; and is the only hospital in Wisconsin to be nationally accredited by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Center of Comprehensive Care. The pharmacy department provides centralized distributive services 24 hours a day and has decentralized pharmacists in acute care units, intensive care units, and limited ambulatory clinics.