Pharmacy Residency Program
RWJBarnabas Health offers an American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP)-accredited PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency. Residents are given the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary care teams to enhance their skills in evidence-based, patient-centered medication management, and to perform pharmacy practice research that is presented at ASHP’s Midyear Meeting and at the Eastern States Residency Conference. Learning experiences are offered in the following areas:
- Administration
- Ambulatory care
- Cardiology
- Community outreach
- Critical care
- Drug information
- Emergency medicine
- General hospital pharmacy
- Hospital dispensing/staffing
- Infectious disease
- Internal medicine
- Oncology
- Pediatrics
- Transplant
As of 2017, each RWJBarnabas Health facility offers the following number of PGY-1 pharmacy residency positions per year:
- Barnabas Health Behavioral Health: Two
- Clara Maass Medical Center: Two
- Community Medical Center: One
- Jersey City Medical Center: Two
- Monmouth Medical Center: Two
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center: Two
- RWJUH New Brunswick: Two
- RWJUH Somerset: Two
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center: Four
As of 2017, each RWJBarnabas Health facility offers the following number of PGY-2 pharmacy residency positions per year:
- Community Medical Center: One – Critical Care
The department also provides advanced clinical clerkship rotations for
PharmD students from Rutgers University, Fairleigh Dickinson University
(FDU), the University of Sciences in Philadelphia (USP), and other colleges
of pharmacy; pharmacy staff members have adjunct faculty appointments
at some of these institutions.
The Pharmacy Enterprise in the past 5 years has retained more than 28 residents
representing a 45% retention rate.