How to Start a Residency: Practical Tools for Initiating a Pharmacy Residency Training Program

Sunday, December 2, 2012
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Activity #: 204-000-11-134-L04P
3.00 Contact Hours / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $150 / limited to 60 participants (lunch not included)
Program Chair: Naomi Schultheis, MEd

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the benefits and summarize requirements for starting a residency program that meets ASHP accreditation standards.
• Describe approaches taken by organizations with successful new residency programs.
  
• Assess your organization's readiness to start a residency.
  
• Develop a plan to prepare your organization to start a residency program.
  
• Define challenges to starting a residency program, and strategies for meeting those challenges.

With more applicants than programs, our profession needs you to step up and start a residency program in your institution. Explore the benefits of developing a residency program and having residents at your site. What’s required, how your institution currently measures up, and how to get ready – it’s all here in this three-hour workshop.