Rotations and Curriculum — PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency at St. Rita's Medical Center
Facilities
Mercy Health – St. Rita's Medical Center Mercy Health St. Rita's Medical Center is a Level II trauma facility, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient care that includes maternity, acute inpatient rehabilitation, congestive heart failure, cardiac rehab, diabetes clinic, women's wellness center and an oncology center. Pharmacy services include decentralized clinical pharmacists, specialized critical care and emergency medicine pharmacists, retail pharmacy and outpatient anticoagulation management services. |
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Graduate Medical Education Center Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center and the Lima community have invested in graduate medical education by purchasing state-of-the-art simulation equipment and housing it in a new, 48,000-square-foot Graduate Medical Education Center. This center was completed in the spring of 2021. A full-time simulation center director, David Faulkner, ACSM, RCEP, provides an amazing resource for hands-on, procedure-based education. |
Rotation Schedule
Required learning experiences (4 to 6 weeks):
- Orientation/operations
- Administration
- Advanced Internal Medicine I
- Cardiology
- Critical care
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Intro to Ambulatory Care
- Pharmacokinetics/Clinical Dosing
Required longitudinal learning experiences:
- Leadership (pending preceptor has availability)
- Practice Management (six months)
- Medication Safety (six months)
- Research Project
- Staffing
Elective learning experiences (one month):
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Didactic Training
- Emergency Medicine
- Intensive Care Medicine II
- Neurology
- Population Health
- Psychiatry
- Transitions of Care
- Repeat of any required rotation
Elective longitudinal learning experiences:
- Teaching certificate through Ohio Northern University