Pharmacy Informatics Residency

The PGY-2 residency in Pharmacy Informatics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is designed to foster expertise in medication-use systems and informatics while providing the resident with a comprehensive understanding of pharmaceutical data analytics. Residents will become versed in pediatric and research informatics while embracing the guiding principles of medication safety. The resident will support the St. Jude mission while working with interdepartmental stakeholders as a member of the Pharmacy Informatics team. Experience in teaching is acquired through providing lectures, in-services, journal club presentations, and precepting of pharmacy students from the University of Tennessee and other colleges of pharmacy.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a premier basic science research center and one of the largest centers in the world for research and treatment of pediatric cancers and other catastrophic diseases. The hospital’s mission is to find cures for children with catastrophic illnesses through research and treatment. The Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences is a clinical and academic department within the institution dedicated to providing the highest quality comprehensive clinical pharmaceutical care to children with catastrophic diseases and always working to integrate research findings into clinical care as quickly as possible. The department consists of professional, technical and support personnel — all focused on providing care across the inpatient/outpatient continuum.

The Pharmacy Informatics community aims to implement, maintain and optimize best-in-class medication-use technology solutions for St. Jude in support of exceptional pharmaceutical care. The program strives to facilitate innovation, scholarship and education through partnerships with clinical staff, Finance, Compliance, Quality and Patient Safety, and Information Services. The program seeks to provide practical solutions that reinforce optimal patient outcomes, workflow efficiency, comprehensive analytics and resource stewardship within the medication use process at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Eligibility

Applicants must have: 

• A Doctor of Pharmacy degree
• Completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency
• Eligibility for licensure to practice pharmacy in the state of Tennessee
• Completed an onsite or virtual interview

Candidates are strongly encouraged to interview with St. Jude staff at the Professional Placement Service (PPS/CareerPharm) at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting.

Curriculum

Rotations are scheduled to overlap one another. The longitudinal experiences will be conducted throughout most of the year.

Core rotations

• Orientation (4 weeks)
• Operational Practice and Change Management (6 weeks)
• Applied Clinical Informatics I (10 weeks)
• Applied Clinical Informatics II (10 weeks)
• Applied Clinical Informatics III (10 weeks)
• Beacon and Research Pharmacy Services (10 weeks)
• Technology Leadership and Administration (10 weeks)
• Pharmaceutical Data Analytics (12 weeks)

Longitudinal experiences

• Longitudinal Informatics Project & Teaching Experience