Training & Curriculum
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a large, 915-bed quaternary care hospital. Broad exposure to diverse and unique rotations allows residents to become highly skilled at caring for patients with both common and complex medical issues.
Required Learning Experiences
- Orientation and Operations Rotation
- Administration Rotation
- General Medicine Rotation
- Drug Information Rotation
- Infectious Diseases Rotation
- Critical Care Rotation*
- Transitions of Care (Longitudinal)
- Presentations and Precepting (Longitudinal)
- Longitudinal Research Project
- Inpatient Decentralized Staffing (Longitudinal)
*Residents may select from Surgical, Cardiac Surgery, Medical, Cardiac and Neurology Intensive Care Units to fulfill this requirement.
Learning Experience Sequencing
Initial learning experiences are usually sequenced as outlined below. Adjustments may be made based on the resident’s previous experience.
- Orientation and Operations
- Required or Elective Learning Experience
- Required or Elective Learning Experience
- Required or Elective Learning Experience
- Inpatient Decentralized Staffing (Longitudinal)
Elective Experiences
Residents select four elective learning experiences to supplement the required rotations.
- Ambulatory care clinics
- Cardiac ICU Rotation
- Cardiac Surgery ICU
- Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Emergency Medicine II
- Financial Management
- Heart Failure Rotation
- Heart Transplant Rotation
- Informatics Rotation
- Inpatient Oncology Rotation
- Kidney Transplant Rotation
- Liver Transplant Rotation
- Lung Transplant Rotation
- Medical ICU Rotation
- Neuro ICU Rotation
- Outpatient Oncology Rotation
- Pediatric Rotation
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Supportive Care Medicine
- Surgery & Anesthesiology Rotation
- Surgery ICU Rotation
Didactics
Didactic sessions include lectures and discussions throughout the year which are essential to the educational experience of our pharmacy residents.
- Department Meetings
- Open forums, continuing education, inservices
- Wellness Series
- Incorporated into biweekly huddles
- Research Series
- These timely lectures provide residents with resources, guidance and feedback on their research project throughout the year.
Presentations
- Noon Conference
- Clinical topic presented to internal medicine residents
- Journal Club
- Each resident will present 3 articles in a monthly series reviewing current and novel literature
- Pharmacy Grand Rounds
- Present an ACPE accredited CE to our pharmacists
- Research Related
- Research Poster
- Research Presentation
Research Project
Each resident will be assigned a longitudinal research project that will include a poster and platform presentation at professional conferences and a manuscript.
Have Questions or Need Help?
Contact us if you would like to learn more about the PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program at Cedars-Sinai.
Cedars-Sinai Department of Pharmacy Services
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Medical Office Tower West, Suite 1165W
Los Angeles, CA 90048