Bridgeport Hospital is home to a PGY1 hospital pharmacy practice residency. The residency allows integration with a dynamic, multidisciplinary health care team, collaborating with world-class clinicians as residents build the knowledge and expertise to define your future as a pharmacy professional.
The mission of the Department of Pharmacy is to provide high value, patient-centered care. We will promote best practices that drive safe, effective, and timely medication therapy through all transitions of care. We will cultivate collaboration, innovation, education and career growth through employee engagement and practice advancement initiatives.
The learning experiences will include a series of educational activities designed to incorporate all aspects of pharmacy practice with guidance from the preceptor. A customized individual resident plan and calendar will be developed for each resident based upon career goals and interests. This residency site agrees that no person at this site will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.
Purpose Statement: PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.
The PGY1 Residency consists of a series of learning experiences that span a 52 week period. Specific learning experiences and goals will be accomplished in discrete blocks of time, while others will occur longitudinally throughout the duration of the residency. Residency time will be generally structured as follows:
| Orientation/Training | 4 weeks |
| Residency Learning Experiences | 44 weeks |
| Conferences | 1 week |
| Time Off/Holidays | 14 days, not contiguous |
| Interviews | 3 days |
| Administration | 4 weeks |
| General Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Hospital Pharmacy Practice | 6 weeks |
| Infectious Disease | 4 weeks |
| Medical, Coronary Critical Care | 4 weeks |
| Pediatrics | 4 weeks |
| Surgical ICU | 4 weeks |
| Project Management | Longitudinal |
Additional electives at YNHH may be considered based on availability and RPD approval.
