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)
- Sarcoma (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. Alternatively, residents may repeat any required rotation for an elective.
- Outpatient Autologous Stem Cell Transplant clinic (2 weeks)
- Outpatient Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant clinic (2 weeks)
- Inpatient Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Seattle Children’s Hospital (4 weeks)
- Oncology Administration (2 weeks)
- Inpatient Pain Management (4 weeks)
- Oncology Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
- Outpatient Immunotherapy (CAR-T) clinic (2 weeks)
- Outpatient Sarcoma clinic (2 weeks)
- Oncology ICU (4 weeks)
- Medication Safety (2 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 clinics 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.
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.
- Residents will prepare and present a pharmacist continuing education presentation.
- 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.
