The Altru PGY1 residency program is a new program currently in our first year of residents. We will have our accreditation survey in the first half of the 2026 year, so we are fully accredited by year two of our program, as is standard for new residencies. We are a residency program built to provide a robust learning experience with flexibility and resident wellness in mind. We have many elective experiences to allow residents to tailor their learning to their interests with preceptors excited to teach. Additionally, Altru is now working out of a brand-new hospital that allows us to provide even stronger care for our community. Please check out Altru's website or reach out to the program director at any time via email - svoglewede@altru.org

Explore the following opportunities and member benefits within APhA. Discover your path and why APhA is your pharmacy home.

• Experiential Program – APPE & Summer Internship
• Executive Fellowship Program
• APhA-ASP Regional & National Leadership Positions
• APhA2025 Annual Meeting & Exposition – Nashville, TN

The APhA Foundation is recognized nationally for transforming the health care system through inspiring philanthropy, research, and innovation to advance pharmacists’ patient care services. It also recognizes the success of student pharmacists by providing 14 annual scholarships. Come learn about these scholarships, the APhA Foundation Executive Fellowship in Association Management and Leadership, and opportunities the APhA Foundation provides to help further your career and the profession.

Are you interested in leveling-up your career and becoming more competitive in the job market after graduation or residency? How about ensuring your knowledge is on the leading edge and earning recognition among your peers? Maybe you’re just interested in learning what all the letters behind your professors’ and preceptors’ names stand for! Join the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) virtual booth to learn about pharmacist board certification and why it matters to you.

When you come to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center for your PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency, passionate pharmacists, physicians, nurses and staff will be there to encourage you throughout your residency. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive line of healthcare services, including critical care and emergency medicine, acute care, cardiology, oncology, infectious disease and orthopedics. Our program offers a broad range of required and elective learning experiences, a competitive stipend, and amazing preceptors ready to help you grow!

Inpatient PGY1 Residency – CHI St. Alexius Health’s inpatient residency program is a minimum of twelve months and a full-time practice commitment. It has been accredited by ASHP since 1995. This program provides the residents with a supportive and instructional environment in which to develop the necessary problem-solving skills to become confident, competent and independent in providing pharmaceutical care to patients in multiple settings. Teaching opportunities, research coordination and serving as a preceptor and role model for students to enhance the learning environment and development of leadership skills. Professional commitment is strengthened through the development of self-evaluation skills and involvement in professional societies and community health activities.

During the year, residents will gain experience in teaching and will actively lead and facilitate learning opportunities for other health care providers in pharmacology and therapeutics. Additionally, CHI St. Alexius Health residents serve as preceptors for Pharm.D. students on clinical rotations.

Residents will initiate a project in clinical research. Residents may initiate projects or work with clinical investigators on ongoing research projects. In addition, participation in drug use evaluations are expected.

Community-based – CHI St. Alexius Health’s community-based residency program was established in 2019. The program utilizes collaborative resources from both CHI St. Alexius and North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy to support the resident through the twelve-month full-time practice commitment. The resident will build on their skills as a clinical pharmacist by splitting their time between our outpatient and clinic pharmacy settings. Research, teaching and precepting are opportunities provided to further develop and enhance the skillset of any modern pharmacist.

Throughout the year, the resident will progressively build on their skills and knowledge by collaborating with physicians and other health care providers. This collaboration allows for the continual growth and improvement of patient care. Maintaining the highest level of patient care is a major objective of this program.

The resident will spend the year working on several projects designed to create a forward-thinking, problem solving and experienced pharmacist that can take on any challenge throughout their career. Additionally, the resident will be required to present a poster at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting as well as present at the Pharmacy Residents Conference based on one of the resident’s projects.

Children’s Minnesota is a multi-site PGY1 program with 2 positions at the Minneapolis campus: NMS #157813, and one position at the St. Paul campus; NMS #157821. The residency is designed to provide the resident with a wide variety of clinical and professional experiences in pediatrics. Residents will complete rotations in pediatric medicine, NICU, PICU, oncology, and practice management and ambulatory/MTM clinics. Residents will have the opportunity to complete several elective learning experiences in areas of their interest, including CV ICU, toxicology, and various ambulatory clinics. Residents will complete a residency project, teaching certificate, participate in department initiatives, hospital committees, and clinical educational programs for patients/families and hospital staff. In addition to on-site educational programs, residents also have the opportunity to teach in a pediatric course offered to 3rd year pharmacy students at the University of Minnesota.

Every member of APhA–ASP is a member of the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF). Learn how your chapter can implement global public health campaigns locally, send chapter members abroad for unique pharmacy experiences, and host international student pharmacists through the Student Exchange Program. 

The Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program combines the best features of ambulatory care clinic and community outpatient services to offer advanced practice opportunities for residents within a fully integrated health system. Resident areas of training will include outpatient pharmacy, ambulatory clinic, oncology clinic, specialty pharmacy, compliance-packaging pharmacy, and managed care. The resident will also have longitudinal experiences in pharmacy leadership, medication therapy management, research, quality improvement, teaching/presenting and student precepting. Finally, residents will have the opportunity to select an elective in ambulatory care - cardiology, ambulatory care - infectious disease, or infusion clinic. Upon completion of our program our graduates are prepared and well qualified to advance to a PGY2 program in ambulatory care or move into clinical pharmacy practice.

Our program provides a broad, yet intensive approach to all aspects of patient care in a community setting and will ensure that you complete your residency with a solid foundation of outpatient pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, and transitions between care settings. You’ll have the opportunity to work with diverse populations including organ transplant, immunocompromised, pediatric, rare disease, and cancer care patients.

In addition to sharpening your pharmacotherapeutic skills in the traditional community pharmacy, we are excited to be able to offer experiences across different specialized community settings such as infusion pharmacy, compounding, and pharmacist embedded clinics in the ambulatory care setting. You will work with providers from multiple disciplines in team-based care approach.

If you believe the needs of the patient come first, our primary value at Mayo Clinic, we encourage you to apply.

A PGY1 residency at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota offers a collaborative & supportive environment rich in learning, personal & professional growth, and unmatched preceptor dedication. Our program is tailored to the resident's goals & interests, ensuring the resident has a fulfilling year, is equipped to deliver high quality care in a diverse and dynamic healthcare landscape, and is prepared to pursue PGY-2 training if desired. Sanford is affiliated with the USD School of Medicine and is highly involved in other disciplines' learning programs, including medicine and nursing. Learning experiences include internal medicine, anticoagulation, medication safety, critical care, pediatrics, cardiology, transplant, emergency medicine, oncology, infectious disease, pharmacogenomics, rural health & more. Residency project & teaching certificate are required components.

Each resident spends three days per week in direct patient care, with half of the time in an ambulatory care clinic with a Lewis Drug pharmacist preceptor and the other half at a Lewis Drug pharmacy, in Sioux Falls SD.

The residents will provide patient care via existing pharmacy programs and will also develop new patient care programs. The residents will be involved with disease state management programs, medication therapy management, wellness programs, medication safety and medication dispensing activities.

The Postgraduate (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency Program is a multi-site program focusing on the practice of pharmaceutical care in the ambulatory care setting.

Our span of sites is among the largest of any accredited program nationally, offering residents a wide range of settings to become skilled comprehensive medication management practitioners through our core ambulatory care learning experiences.

With our wide range of settings, residents have the opportunity to select a host site that best matches their individual learning preferences. Our settings include rural and urban practices, larger and smaller health systems, teaching-focused and non-teaching clinics, community pharmacy and inpatient practice experiences, didactic and experiential teaching and underserved and for-profit clinical settings.