OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center PGY1 Pharmacy Residency

Program Overview

The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency provides you with hands-on experience across a variety of clinical and pharmacy practice areas. You’ll complete required and elective rotations while participating in patient care, staffing, research, education and other professional activities throughout the residency year.

Learning Experiences

Required Rotations

• Administration
• Critical care
• Drug information
• Emergency medicine
• Infectious diseases
• Intermediate care
• Internal medicine
• Medical alert response
• Orientation
• Pharmacy informatics
• Pharmacy practice 

Residency Activities

Patient-focused Activities

Residents participate in a variety of patient care activities, including:

• Admission history
• Adverse drug event reporting and investigation of medication error reports
• Cardiac arrest response
• Daily rounds with the health care team
• Discharge counseling
• Drug information
• Medication education
• Patient monitoring and documentation
• Pharmacy consultations, including pharmacokinetics and warfarin
• Precepting Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) students
• Stroke alert response

Staffing

Staffing is a longitudinal experience throughout the residency year. The program follows the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) duty-hour requirements for pharmacy residencies. Residents will work every third weekend.

Research Project

Residents complete one major research project during the residency year. The project is presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition and a regional pharmacy resident conference.

Other Activities

Residents participate in:

• A one-hour presentation at grand rounds
• Hospital committees, including pharmacy and therapeutics
• Case presentations
• In-services
• Journal clubs
• Drug information project
• Teaching certificate

Resident Benefits

• Salary of approximately $50,000 per year
• Three weeks of paid time off
• Three weeks of sick leave
• Travel reimbursement for conferences
• ASHP membership dues
• Medical, dental and life insurance available
• Eligibility to participate in the 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Hospital employee discount program at several local businesses

How to Apply

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must:

• Have a 3.0 GPA
• Be a graduate or candidate for graduation from an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)-accredited degree program, or a program in the process of pursuing accreditation, or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
• Be eligible for Illinois licensure
• Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.

Application Material

Applicants must submit a standard online application through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS)

The application must include three references, including at least one direct patient care preceptor.

NMS Code: 331113

Application Deadline

January 8, 2027

Interview Process

Selected candidates will be contacted by email and offered an onsite interview.

Program Start Date

June 28, 2027

Program Leadership

The Bloomington PGY1 Pharmacy Residency is led by a residency program director and supported by a residency operations manager and a multidisciplinary group of pharmacy preceptors.

Residency Program Director
Erin Surbeck, PharmD
Erin.M.Surbeck2@osfhealthcare.org

Residency Operations Manager
Ryan Wolf, PharmD
Ryan.S.Wolf@osfhealthcare.org