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Rotations and Curriculum — PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency at St. Rita's Medical Center

Facilities

 St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima

Mercy Health – St. Rita's Medical Center

Mercy Health St. Rita's Medical Center is a Level II trauma facility, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient care that includes maternity, acute inpatient rehabilitation, congestive heart failure, cardiac rehab, diabetes clinic, women's wellness center and an oncology center. Pharmacy services include decentralized clinical pharmacists, specialized critical care and emergency medicine pharmacists, retail pharmacy and outpatient anticoagulation management services.

Graduate Medical Education Center

Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center and the Lima community have invested in graduate medical education by purchasing state-of-the-art simulation equipment and housing it in a new, 48,000-square-foot Graduate Medical Education Center. This center was completed in the spring of 2021. A full-time simulation center director, David Faulkner, ACSM, RCEP, provides an amazing resource for hands-on, procedure-based education.

  Graduate Medical Education Building at St. Rita's Medical Center

Rotation Schedule

Required learning experiences (4 to 6 weeks): 

  • Orientation/operations
  • Introduction to Anticoagulation Clinic
  • Introduction to Family Medicine
  • Introduction to Internal Medicine
  • Administration 
  • Advanced Internal Medicine I
  • Cardiology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Internal Medicine
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Precepting

Required longitudinal learning experiences:

  • Anticoagulation Clinic
  • Family Medicine
  • Leadership
  • Medication Safety
  • Practice Management
  • Research Project
  • Staffing
  • Teaching and Learning Curriculum

Elective learning experiences (one month):

  • Academic Teaching
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Intensive Care Medicine II
  • Neurology
  • Oncology
  • Population Health
  • Psychiatry

Elective longitudinal learning experiences:

  • Teaching certificate through Ohio Northern University