PGY1 & PGY2 Combined Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership with Masters
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The PGY1 & PGY2 Combined Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership with Masters residency program develops clinically grounded, operationally capable pharmacy leaders who are prepared to lead across a complex integrated health system. Through a two-year pathway that combines a strong PGY1 clinical foundation with a tailored PGY2 leadership experience, residents build the judgment, confidence, and adaptability needed to serve as future pharmacy managers, directors, and enterprise leaders. At Aurora, residents do more than observe leadership, they practice it.
Why Aurora?
- Integrated-system perspective
- Tailored PGY2 experiences
- Optional MS funded by Advocate Health
- Direct supervision as a site director or manager
- Executive and system-level leadership exposure
- Breadth beyond hospital pharmacy
- Practice-based strategic projects
- People-centered leadership development
- Participation in strategic priority development
Program at a Glance
National Match Code: 134541
Program Duration: 24 months
Number of Positions: 4
Salary:
- PGY1 (first-year resident): $60,320
- PGY2 (second-year resident): $64,480
View a sample schedule [PDF]
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Master of Science Option
As part of the PGY1 & PGY2 Combined Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership residency program, residents may choose to complete a Master of Science through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This optional opportunity integrates graduate-level coursework with the residency experience to provide rigorous study in health-system pharmacy administration, leadership, and the medication use process. Through this program, residents broaden their perspective by learning alongside peers and leaders from multiple health systems and practice settings while strengthening their research, scholarly, operational and leadership skills. Participation requires thoughtful balance with residency responsibilities, but it enhances professional development and prepares residents for future roles as clinical coordinators, supervisors, managers, directors, and leaders within integrated health care organizations.
For additional program details, please visit the course website or review the document below.
View the Master of Science program information [PDF]
Rotation Sites
The PGY1 year is completed in the PGY1 Pharmacy – Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc. program. Residents spend most of the PGY1 year at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, with opportunities to spend time at Aurora Sinai Medical Center.
During the PGY2 year, residents rotate across multiple sites and service areas based on project needs, learning experiences and system priorities.
Additional learning experiences in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies throughout Wisconsin and Illinois help residents understand how leadership decisions affect teams, patients and operations across care settings.
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Wisconsin’s largest private hospital, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center is a premier destination for world-class patient care, treating patients from all 50 states and worldwide. It’s internationally known for expertise in heart care and oncology. Aurora St. Luke’s also offers exceptional specialty care in areas such as critical care, abdominal/cardiothoracic transplant and neurosciences, and houses the Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic.
Aurora Sinai Medical Center A teaching hospital located in downtown Milwaukee, Aurora Sinai Medical Center offers unique experiences including neonatal/perinatal care, internal medicine and intensive care.
Program Highlights
The PGY1 year builds a strong foundation in drug policy, administration, and direct patient care. Residents can customize the year through a wide variety of elective experiences, including various ambulatory care, specialty practice, and teaching opportunities.
The PGY2 year is designed to help residents move from learning about leadership to practicing it. Residents gain exposure across a large, integrated health system while tailoring experiences to their interests, experience, aptitude and career goals. Through these experiences, residents develop leadership skills that prepare them to guide teams, manage operations and advance pharmacy services, including:
- People leadership and direct supervision: Complete a rotation functioning as a site director or manager, where they supervise operations, support workflows and develop practical team leadership experience.
- Operational problem solving: Work through pharmacy operations, workflow challenges, staffing needs, personnel management and performance improvement activities.
- Strategic thinking and priority development: Participate in strategic priority development and lead projects aligned with department and system needs.
- Project management and change leadership: Develop these skills through practice-based projects, technology-enabled change initiatives, medication-use system work and service-line improvement efforts.
- Executive communication and stakeholder engagement: Communicate with pharmacy leaders, medical staff, administration and other stakeholders through leadership discussions, presentations and system-level initiatives.
- Medication-use system oversight: Rotate through experiences in drug policy, medication safety, and clinical service management.
- Cross-continuum pharmacy leadership: Broaden your leadership perspective through experiences across hospital, ambulatory, retail, specialty, supply chain, informatics and system pharmacy services.
- Teaching, recruitment and professional development: Participate in interviewing, recruiting, orientation, staffing, teaching, precepting, topic discussions and longitudinal leadership development.
See Program structure & completion requirements in the Program requirements section below for full details.
Residency Projects
Each resident completes a practice-based project aligned with the pharmacy department’s strategic priorities. Residents formally present their work at a statewide conference and may have the opportunity to publish their project.
View residency major projects [PDF]
Program Requirements and Interview
Residents must complete general and program-specific requirements, including core and elective learning experiences, to graduate from the residency program.
Review program structure and completion requirements [PDF]
All pharmacy residency candidates must complete an interview. Interview dates cannot be rescheduled.
Meet Our Residents and Preceptors
Our people are central to the residency experience. Residents learn from preceptors with diverse backgrounds in pharmacy practice, operations and leadership, and they join a community committed to developing motivated learners into confident pharmacy leaders.
Meet the preceptors [PDF]
Meet the residents [PDF]
Apply and Connect with Us
Ready to take the next step? Learn more about candidate requirements, the application process, and the required interview, or connect with our Pharmacy Residency program representatives.
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Interested in a Southeast Program?
Candidates looking for a combined PGY1/PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership with Master of Science experience in the Southeast are encouraged to explore our sister program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.