Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

Program Overview

Pharmacists at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock provide patient-centered care through effective drug therapy management working in collaboration with the healthcare team to ensure positive patient outcomes. Our pharmacists are involved in the delivery of quality patient care through active participation in ICU team rounds, involvement in interdisciplinary patient care committees, and comprehensive decentralized clinical services including transitions of care.

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency program at Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock is a one-year program that offers a variety of required and elective learning experiences involving both direct patient care as well as management of pharmacy practice. These direct patient care experiences range from acute care experiences like critical care, cardiology, and infectious disease to ambulatory care experiences like transplant, transitions of care, and chronic care management.

Pharmacy residents will begin the year with an orientation learning experience and onboarding followed by required experiences in internal medicine, cardiology, nephrology, infectious disease, critical care, and informatics. Up to five elective experiences can be selected throughout the year with options including emergency medicine, transplant, chronic care management, neurology, rehabilitation, as well as advanced experiences of the required experiences.

Throughout the course of the program the residents will earn their teaching certificate and research certificate through the University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences. Residents will work with pharmacy leaders within the organization to learn about the practice of pharmacy management and how to deliver pharmacy care to one of the largest hospitals in the state with an average daily census of 400 and over a hundred registered critical care beds.

Upon completion of the residency program at Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock residents will be prepared to continue their post graduate training in a second year program or begin their career as well rounded clinical pharmacists.