PGY1 Pharmacy & PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership with Masters
Essentia Health
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Posted: 12-Nov-25
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Type: PGY1 and PGY2 combined
Salary: $65,000
Job Setting:
H-S Pharmacy Practice Administration/M.S.
Hospital/Institutional
Specialty Practice Areas:
Management/Leadership
Required Education:
PharmD
Essentia Health-Fargo is full service regional medical center with the feel and camaraderie of a small community hospital. We’re a 133-bed hospital with 10 newborn intensive care beds, a birthing center, and 24-hour emergency room. We’re also a Level II Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Essentia Health-Fargo is part of Essentia Health, an integrated health system headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota serving patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. The organization lives out its mission by having a patient-centered focus at 14 hospitals, 80 clinics, 30 retail pharmacies, six long-term care facilities, three assisted living facilities, two independent living facilities, seven ambulance services, and one research institute.
The Essentia Health-Fargo PGY1/PGY2 Postgraduate Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Residency Program in Fargo, North Dakota can help prepare you for a career in patient-focused clinical practice and administration of health-system pharmacy. The resident will obtain advanced knowledge in clinical practice and expertise in pharmacy administration, management, and leadership activities.
The PGY1 year focuses on pharmacy practice, providing a well-rounded experience in all aspects of patient-focused care. The structure of the first year follows the Essentia Health-Fargo PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program. The PGY2 year provides training in health-system pharmacy administration building off the skills developed in the PGY1 year. This two-year program includes the completion of a master’s degree. The master’s degree program is a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) from Minnesota State University Moorhead, nationally accredited by the Commission of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). The resident will obtain advanced knowledge in clinical practice and expertise in pharmacy leadership.
The mission of the pharmacy residency program is to support the resident's development toward achieving the skills necessary to provide quality, compassionate and cost-effective pharmaceutical patient care and the ability to provide leadership on medication use and drug policy. Residents will not only focus on achieving their personal career goals but will continue to move the profession forward.
The pharmacy residency program at Essentia Health- Fargo is dedicated to achieving a vision where all residency graduates will have completed a diverse array of clinical, administrative and educational experiences that will position them to pursue advanced training and/or practice in a clinical setting. Graduates of the program will be able to provide competent care with a sense of confidence. Graduates shall gain the necessary skills and a solid foundation from which they can continue to grow and become outstanding pharmacists and leaders.
Applicants shall be a graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Doctor of Pharmacy degree program and eligible for licensure in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Required application materials include: letter of interest, curriculum vitae, academic transcript and three letters of recommendation to be submitted via PhORCAS.
Essentia Health-Fargo is a 133-bed hospital with 10 newborn intensive care beds, a birthing center, and 24-hour emergency room. We are a full service regional medical center with the feel and camaraderie of a small community hospital. We are a Level II Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center with live-saving teams here for you. Essentia Health-Fargo truly embodies the Essentia Health Values of quality, hospitality, respect, joy, justice, stewardship, and teamwork. Essentia Health-Fargo is part of Essentia Health, an integrated health system headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota. The Essentia Health organization includes 14 hospitals and 70 clinics serving patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. Essentia Health-Fargo inpatient pharmacy service employs over 40 clinical pharmacists and over 20 pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns serving the Fargo/Moorhead population. The pharmacy practice model is decentralized, integrated, and supported by the Epic information system. Pharmacists work collaboratively with other health care providers to provide order verification, drug distribution services, and several clinical services including anticoagulation dosing and monito...ring, pharmacokinetic services, total parenteral nutrition management, dose and route adjustments, medication reconciliation, and antibiotic stewardship. Pharmacists also respond to and actively participate in medical emergencies and stroke codes.