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UW Medicine Pharmacy Residency

Learning Experiences

Rotations

Required Rotations

Residents will rotate through inpatient rotations at University of Washington Medical Center – Montlake and outpatient clinic rotations at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Disease state clinics at Fred Hutch are in a variety of specialties, including solid tumor oncology, malignant hematology, and hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

  • Inpatient Hematology/Oncology I (4 weeks)
  • Inpatient Hematology/Oncology II (4 weeks)
  • Inpatient Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (4 weeks)
  • Outpatient General Oncology Clinic
    • Breast (2 weeks)
    • Gastrointestinal (2 weeks)
    • Genitourinary (1 week)
    • Gynecologic/Neurologic (1 week)
    • Hematology – Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma (5 weeks)
    • Renal Cell/Melanoma/Dermatology (1 week)
    • Thoracic, Head and Neck (2 weeks)
  • Investigational Drug Services (3 weeks)
  • Outpatient Community Oncology (2 weeks)

Elective Rotations

Residents may select from the following elective rotations to make up two 4-week blocks.

  • Inpatient Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Seattle Children’s Hospital (4 weeks)
  • Oncology Administration (4 weeks)
  • Inpatient Pain Management (4 weeks)
  • Oncology Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
  • Oncology ICU (4 weeks)
  • Outpatient Autologous Stem Cell Transplant clinic (2 weeks)
  • Outpatient Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant clinic (2 weeks)
  • Outpatient Immunotherapy (CAR-T) clinic (2 weeks)
  • Outpatient Sarcoma clinic (2 weeks)
  • Outpatient Community Oncology (2-4 weeks)

Longitudinal Clinic Rotations

Throughout the year, residents participate in longitudinal clinic experiences for a half-day each week. Residents participate in two clinics throughout the year for six months each.

Longitudinal clincs may include the following experiences:

  • Oral Chemo Monitoring Program: in this pharmacist-driven clinic, residents contact patients, review adherence and toxicity, and formulate a plan with the primary team.
  • Medical Oncologist clinic: residents accompany medical oncologists in patient visits and provide personalized clinical pharmacy services.
  • Pain Clinic: residents meet with patients and devise a pain management plan for cancer patients in this pharmacist-driven clinic

Staffing

  • Residents have an integrated service commitment of 32 hours per 4-week schedule period.
  • Residents will spend 6 months in the oncology satellite at UWMC-ML and 6 months in the outpatient infusion pharmacy at Fred Hutch.

 

Teaching Experiences

  • Residents will complete one didactic lecture for pharmacy students at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy.
  • Residents prepare and present one pharmacist continuing education presentation on a current topic or clinical controversy.

Projects

  • Residents participate in clinical research with a required project/completion of research manuscript, and present a platform presentation at regional residency conference.
  • At the end of the year, residents submit final writing project manuscript to Writing Committee and to select journals for publication.
  • To practice development of research projects, residents submit a Flip project proposal for the next residency class.
  • Residents complete at least two drug therapy committee assignments for P&T committee.