PGY1 and PGYHSPAL Masters
Listed on 2026-01-08
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Healthcare
Pharmacy
Overview
Grow as a professional while you build clinical and leadership skills at Essentia Health. The Essentia Health-Fargo PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program in Fargo, North Dakota can help prepare you for a career in patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
Receive education and training that meets national quality standards. Our postgraduate year one residency program is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). This means you’ll be eligible to take your board examinations more quickly and you’ll be a more competitive candidate during your job search.
Upon completing your residency, you’ll be qualified for:
- A clinical staff position in an acute care setting
- An adjunct faculty position at a college of pharmacy
- Postgraduate year two (PGY2) training in a focused area of practice
Benefit from opportunities to collaborate with health care professionals at Essentia to provide safe, efficient, cost-effective patient care, including:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Anticoagulant dosing and monitoring
- Geriatric dosage adjustment
- Intravenous (IV) to oral (PO) conversion
- Medical emergency response
- Medication reconciliation
- Order verification
- Pharmacokinetic dosage adjustment
- Renal dose adjustment
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) management
Start your pharmacy residency with a comprehensive orientation, including:
- New hire orientation
- Electronic health record (EHR) system training
- Introduction to Pharm Academic
- Introduction to residency program manual and purpose
- Pharmacy processes and decentralized services
- Pharmacist competency completion and review
Build your skills as a practicing pharmacist during rotation assignments that span a variety of departments at Essentia Health-Fargo.
Required RotationsBuild foundational skills through core clinical rotations:
- Critical Care I
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine I
- Oncology
- Pediatrics
- Management
Each required rotation is 5 weeks in length.
Elective RotationsExplore your interests and a variety of specialties during elective rotations. Select electives in:
- Ambulatory Care
- Cardiology
- Critical Care II
- Emergency Medicine
- Neurology
- Population Health
Each elective rotation is 4 weeks in length.
Longitudinal RotationsParticipate in ongoing learning experiences throughout your residency year with longitudinal rotations in:
- Education and precepting (48 weeks, 1 day per month)
- Drug information (48 weeks, 1 hour weekly)
- Research (48 weeks, 1 hour weekly)
- Staffing (52 weeks, 8-hour shifts every third weekend and one 4 hour evening shift every other two weeks)
- Nutrition (52 weeks, 1 hour weekly)
Take advantage of weekly protected research time to complete a research module—a structured, collaborative opportunity to learn and apply principles of academic research.
Develop the skills to provide comprehensive, unbiased, evidence-based medication information as you:
- Participate in a research module—a structured, collaborative opportunity to learn and apply principles of academic research—through the residency research program
- Build a drug monograph or drug class review
- Complete a medication-use evaluation (MUE)
- Provide drug therapy information to pharmacy staff and other health care professionals through journal clubs, case presentations, and discussions
- Help develop policies to standardize practices and improve medication use safety
- Serve on a variety of committees
Apply your pharmaceutical knowledge and distribution skills by practicing as a pharmacist during regular shifts at an Essentia pharmacy. You’ll work:
- Clinical shifts every third weekend
- Staffing shifts one evening per month
Grow as a professional while you build clinical and leadership skills at Essentia Health. 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…
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