Learning Experiences

Our flexible residency program allows residents to tailor their experiences to meet their individual career goals. The residency year is divided into 12 rotations, most of which are 4 weeks long. Residents are also evaluated longitudinally on practice management, presentations, research, and practice experience (staffing).

Additional highlights include:

  • Members of the pharmacy staff participate in daily patient care rounds, therapeutic drug monitoring, medication reconciliation, patient education, providing drug information, and in-service education
  • Flexibility allows each resident to tailor experiences to meet his/her individual interests and career goals
  • In July, the resident will spend time learning order verification and distribution system for chemotherapy patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings
  • Dedicated weeks for research and projects will be provided throughout the year
  • Remaining ten rotations are broken into seven required rotations and three elective rotations
  • All rotations are precepted by qualified clinical specialists

Required Learning Experiences - 4 weeks each

  • Clinic Experience – 3 months (1 of which will be a solid tumor)
  • Leukemia
  • Medical Oncology I (HOB/HOC)
  • Orientation
  • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy (SCT-CT)

Elective Learning Experiences - 2 to 4 weeks each

  • Leukemia, Advanced
  • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Advanced
  • Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Advanced
  • Benign Hematology
  • Clinic, Breast
  • Clinic, GI
  • Clinic, GU
  • Clinic, Gynecology and Oncology
  • Clinic, Lymphoma
  • Clinic, Malignant Heme
  • Clinic, Multiple Myeloma
  • Clinic, Thoracic
  • Palliative Care
  • Medical Oncology II (HOA)
  • Teaching (add on rotation when precepting)

Longitudinal - occur within the residency year

  • Practice Management
  • Presentations and Teaching
  • Professional Practice Experience
  • Research
  • Clinic Longitudinal CNS (10 months)