Program details
Designed to train the future leaders of integrated health systems, this program combines the Advocate Lutheran General PGY1 Pharmacy Residency with the PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residency for a two-year program. Advocate Lutheran General has had an ASHP accredited PGY1 residency since 1977.
General Information:
- ASHP Accredited PGY1 program since 1977
- Program Code Number: 41086
- National Matching Services Code: 272441
- Number of PGY1 Residents: 6
- Number of PGY2 Residents: 5
- Hospital Size: 623 beds
Benefits and Compensation:
- ACLS/BLS training
- Competitive salary
- Free parking
- Health and retirement benefits at employee costs
- Paid time off
- Stipend for expenses to attend professional meetings
Learning Experience:
The residency is tailored to the interest, experience, aptitude, and career goals of the resident. Residents work with a variety of site and system leaders in rotations that can include, but are not limited to:
- Health system Pharmacy Leadership: human resources, financial management, strategic planning, communication skills, accreditation, medication version, continuity of care, resource management, interfaces with medical staff and administration, corporate interfaces, managing issues and problems
- Population Health Management: managed care operations, population health improvement concepts, social determinants of health, and healthcare outcomes
- Clinical Services (includes Drug use policy and Medication Safety): planning and management of clinical pharmacy services - including daily practice of pharmacists, medication safety initiatives, drug use policy decisions, P&T Committee operations, medication management regulatory compliance
- Hospital Pharmacy Operations: direct experience in the daily supervision of pharmacy operations including workflow, personnel management, problem solving, and performance improvement.
- Pharmacy Informatics/Automation and Technology: inpatient and ambulatory computer systems, project management, change management, database and application management, clinical documentation, billing systems, clinical/operational decision support
- Pharmacy Supply Chain-Purchasing/Inventory Control: procurement, inventory and drug shortage management, contracting, market share rebates, negotiation, philanthropy, contract compliance, distributor and vendor relationships
- Interviewing/Recruiting: take an active role in recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and retention of team members
- Orientation: computer systems, drug distribution, personnel, policies, workflow, and department structure
- Professional Development: year-long residency project, learning experience projects, in-services, staffing, visits to other institutions, professional organizations, teaching and precepting, current topic discussions, leadership development
Hospital and Children's Hosptial
- Advocate Health Care is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois
- Leads region’s largest medical group with locations across metropolitan Chicago and Central Illinois; operates state’s largest network of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists
- Comprised of 12 hospitals, including 4 teaching hospitals, and 2 children’s hospital campuses
- Advocate Health Care is part of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the top 12 not-for-profit health systems in the country
- Hospital size: 623-bed
- Leading health care provider in Chicago’s North and Northwest suburbs offering a Level I Trauma Center
- Access to national clinical trials and advanced medical technologies
- As a nationally recognized academic and research hospital, patients have access to the most advanced treatment in the areas of cardiology, cancer, neurosciences, orthopedics and women’s health.
- Located on the campus is Advocate Children’s Hospital, one of the 14 largest children’s hospitals in the country.