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 Building at St. Rita's Medical Center

 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. 

Rotation Schedule

Introductory Training:

  • Orientation & Operations
  • Introduction to Anticoagulation Clinic
  • Introduction to Family Medicine
  • Introduction to Internal Medicine

Required learning experiences (4 to 6 weeks): 

  • Administration 
  • Internal Medicine
  • 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 (4 weeks):

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