Pharmacy Residency – Fargo, ND

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

Be Part of the Care Team

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

Orientation

Start your pharmacy residency with a comprehensive 7 week orientation, including:

• New hire orientation
• Electronic health record (EHR) system training
• Introduction to PharmAcademic
• Introduction to residency program manual and purpose
• Pharmacy processes and decentralized services
• Pharmacist competency completion and review

Pharmacy Rotations

Build your skills as a practicing pharmacist during rotation assignments that span a variety of departments at Essentia Health-Fargo.

Required Rotations

Build 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 Rotations

Explore your interests and a variety of specialties during elective rotations. Select electives in:

• Ambulatory Care
• Cardiology
• Critical Care II
• Emergency Medicine
• Neurology

Each elective rotation is 4 weeks in length. 

Longitudinal Rotations

Participate 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 in coordination with the Essentia Health Institute of Rural Health (48 weeks, 1 hour weekly)
• Staffing (52 weeks,  8-hour shifts every third weekend and one 4 hour evening shift weekly)
• Nutrition (52 weeks, 1 hour weekly)

Research & Learning Experiences

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

Staffing Opportunities

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 and one 4 hour evening shift once weekly