The Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency Program curriculum revolves around evidence-based medicine and direct patient care experiences. Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center serves as the primary training site, a community hospital that also provides extensive tertiary care services throughout west central Pennsylvania.

Its unique combination of providing tertiary care in a community-based setting offers residents several educational advantages, including:

• Daily interaction with a patient population that has diverse needs across health status, demographic, socioeconomic and other lines
• The ability to follow patients through every stage of the care process
• The opportunity to experience a broad spectrum of patient care in a single setting

Required program rotations include:

• Administration/Medical Management
• Ambulatory Care (including diabetes & HIV clinics)
• Critical Care/Nutrition
• Family Practice (inpatient)
• Infectious Disease / Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Internal Medicine
• Pain Management
• Preceptor Education Rotation
• Trauma/Surgery

Elective rotations include:

• Critical Care, focus on Cardiology
• Hematology / Oncology
• Pain Management focus on Palliative Care
• Trauma, focus on General Surgery

Additional rotations may be available depending on a resident's interests and individual career objectives.