The combined 2-year residency/Master of Science in Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership program provides residents with the knowledge, skills and experiences necessary to assume a variety of roles and leadership positions. After completing our program, residents are equipped to serve as vibrant, committed professionals with a focus on improving patients’ health, health care delivery and the pharmacy profession as a whole. We help ensure success through both didactic education and experiential opportunities in the classroom and in the workplace.
Residents of the PGY1/PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residency program will join our alumni who have entered the workforce in a variety of different roles, including directors of pharmacy, hospital executives, and clinical leaders. The program offers residents a broad set of valuable tools that prepares them for a successful career, regardless of their specific goals.
The PGY1/PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residency program at Wake Forest Baptist is a member of the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy Masters of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a specialization in Health-System Pharmacy Administration collaborative. The program includes residents at more than 15 different health systems across the country. This allows Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residents to gain experience in a variety of settings, while also fostering collaboration in didactic education. For more details on the collaborative and curriculum, see this.
The overall goal of the program is to prepare residents for leadership positions in health care. After residents complete our program, they will:
- Be able to envision, plan, implement, coordinate and monitor patient care and operational services
- Be effective stewards of human resources, including recruitment, mentoring, evaluating and leading professionals and technical support staff
- Be adaptive leaders to changes and demands for health-system pharmacy practice and the health care environment in general
- Be strategic thinkers and planners who see challenges as opportunities to contribute to improving health care deliveryDuke Health
- Be consistently ethical and professional in their practiceMassachusetts General Hospital
- Be clinically competent in the practice of pharmacy
- Understand and assume the managerial and financial responsibilities in health-system pharmacies
- Have a vision for the future practice of pharmacy and possess the tools to realize that vision
Why Wake Forest Baptist?
- Robust clinical pharmacy practice experience
- Flexible and diverse elective learning experience opportunities
- Committee leadership opportunities in both PGY1 and PGY2 years
- Longitudinal management experience
- Extensive and supportive resident mentorship
- Teaching certificate and preceptorship opportunities
- Extraordinary leadership learning opportunities
Hear from our current and past residents on their experiences.
Recruitment Informational Sessions
- November 4, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. EST
- November 11, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. EST
- November 17, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. EST