Pharmacy Residency Program

Residents will participate in both formal and informal multidisciplinary education, student preceptorship, and preparation of projects for presentation.  Committee involvement will sharpen communication and leadership skills.  Service commitment (staffing requirement) is one weekend every third week.  The residency is affiliated with Belmont University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences.  Residents will participate in didactic classroom activities and earn a teaching certificate through Belmont. Upon successful completion of the program, residents are awarded a residency certificate.

Core and elective rotations occur on a monthly calendar averaging four weeks.

A formal Orientation program will begin the last week of June or first week of July each calendar year.  This orientation period is used to introduce incoming residents to Williamson Medical Center and the Department of Pharmacy, and to outline expectations for the residency year.  The RPD will review residency program policies with incoming residents within 14 days of the start of the program and acceptance of such will be documented on the orientation checklist.  Specifically, the RPD will orient the residents to the residency manual, residency’s purpose, ASHP Standard, competency areas, goals and objectives applicable to the residency program, required and elective learning experiences, Williamson Medical Center’s process for reporting issues around harassment and inappropriate behavior, and strategies for maintaining well-being and resilience, along with information on available resources for well-being and resilience.

Longitudinal experiences include Leadership/Education (~48 weeks in length), Service Commitment (~48 weeks in length), Teaching Certificate Program (~46 weeks in length), Practice Advancement Projects (~50 weeks in length) and Medication Safety (six months in length).

Service Commitment is designed to ensure that residents gain experience and can function as a pharmacy generalist.  In order to maintain competence in this role, residents are expected to attend Department of Pharmacy Staff Meetings and mandatory in-services.

Residents must spend two-thirds or more of the program in direct patient care activities.  Residents will gain experience in recurring follow-up of patients assigned, relative to the practice environment.  No more than one-third of direct patient care learning experiences may focus on a specific disease state or population.

Residents will attend committee meetings including Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Medication Safety and Management Committee, Med Errors/ADRs meetings, Antimicrobial Stewardship Administrative and weekly Committee meetings, and Pharmacy/Nursing Council meetings, among others, based on learning experiences.