Learning Experiences
at Saint Louis University Hospital - St. Louis
Residents of this program will have nine required rotation experiences and one elective experience. Note: an early commitment candidate will replace orientation with another elective experience.
Required Rotations
- Resident Orientation
- Emergency Medicine
- Pulmonary/Medicine Critical Care
- Advanced Pulmonary/Medicine Critical Care
- Neurocritical Care
- Trauma Critical Care
- Surgical Critical Care
- Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Management
Elective Rotations
- Infectious Disease
- Advanced Trauma Critical Care
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Hematology
Longitudinal Learning Experiences
- Distributive Services
- Longitudinal Resident Development
- Research (with concentrated block)
- Teaching
Certification and Teaching Opportunities
- Teaching certificate available if not completed in PGY1 through University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis Resident Education Academy
- Regional continuing education seminar lecture development
- Precepting Advanced Practice Pharmacy Experience (APPE) students from local colleges of pharmacy
Staffing Requirements
- Independently staff, outside of scheduled rotation hours, a minimum of 360 hours
- Hours completed prior to full licensure will count toward minimum requirements
- Independent staffing is defined as any time that a resident is caring for patients and not being directly supervised by another pharmacist
- Most staffing shifts are completed in the ICU Satellite Pharmacy
- General staffing schedule and rotation:
- Every 4th weekend (two 8-hour shifts)
- 1 evening per week (4-hour shift from 1600 to 2000)
- 2 days surrounding one major holiday (two 8-hour shifts)
- For more information, please reference our Saint Louis University 2023-2024 Supplemental Residency Manual