Learning Experiences

Required Learning Experiences (7) – one month duration; must complete each learning experience  

  • Orientation
  • Inpatient Abdominal Organ Transplant – 2 months (I and II)
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant I
  • Outpatient Kidney Transplant I
  • Transplant Infectious Disease
  • Specialty Pharmacy 

Required Selective Learning Experience (1) – one month duration; must select 1

  • Intensive Care Unit
    • Surgical Intensive Care Unit
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit
    • Cardiovascular/thoracic Intensive Care Unit

Elective Learning Experiences (4) – one month duration

  • Liver Transplant
  • Inpatient Abdominal Organ Transplant III  
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant II
  • Nephrology
  • Bone Marrow Transplant
  • Additional Intensive Care Unit as listed above

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences (52 weeks unless otherwise specified)   

  • Solid Organ Transplant Practice Management (2-4 hours per month for meetings with transplant pharmacy leader(s) and committee involvement; will include transplant quality assessment and performance improvement)   
  • Major Project (8-12 hours each month with up to 15 days of dedicated research time for the resident to schedule)   
  • Pharmacy Practice Experience (17 total weekends of two 8-hour clinical coverage shifts and 50 weeknight 4-hour clinical coverage shifts) 
  • Teaching (1-2 hours each week, more time allotted if participating in teaching certificate program, includes journal club/transplant topic discussion series) 
  • Precepting (minimum of one month during the residency year)
  • Outpatient Heart Transplant/VAD Clinic (every other week)