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- [Narrator] This is OHSU, shaped by leaders, pioneers,
and those brave enough to take that first step.
We carry the torch and shine a light on what is possible.
We are a collaboration of disciplines,
listening to one another, learning from each other.
The OHSU pharmacy residency programs
are more than opportunities to gain experience.
It's your time to serve with a community
of trailblazers and groundbreakers.
- We want our resident to be highly sought after
from different hospital, different industry,
that they are highly recruited
because they ready for the operation,
ready for anything with anybody throw at them.
- The first time that I heard about OHSU
was through a classmate actually
who completed her first-year residency here.
And she posted something on social media,
and it was a statement from OHSU
about their mission to be more inclusive
and to respond to some of the changes
that were happening in health care.
And so, I was drawn initially to the mission
that was in that statement of providing a community
that would care for both the patients and their coworkers.
When I got here, I think the part that sold me
was the people, and I'm sure everyone said that,
but in the interview process,
it really felt like everyone was a family.
I remember when I was getting the tour of the institution,
we passed by the IV room and the resident
who was giving me the tour said hi to somebody
who had been working there for over 30 years
and knows everything.
And so, just that sense of community,
I think, was what sold it for me.
- We're not just training pharmacists,
we're training people to be contributing members to OHSU
that serve our mission, that serve our patient,
but also to advance society as a whole.
You can constantly observe every single
individual within our institution
and pick the best things from people
that you interact with on a daily basis
and make it your own, and ultimately become the best
and strongest clinician that you can be.
- Some programs are very internally competitive,
and so that's good, I'm a competitive person too,
but you wanna have your partnership
and be able to collaborate with your co-residents.
And here at OHSU, it's very much
a collaborative environment,
so you're able to kind of boost each other up
without having concerns about needing to compete within.
We also have what we call a pharmily, or a family pharmily,
and it's built up between the second-year residents
and first-year residents, as well as our fourth-year
and third year pharmacy school interns,
so it's a four tier mentorship program
just to really build and learn from each other's experiences
as well as have each other to lean back on
when you need someone just to talk to.
- I do really think that this is a fun place to learn
and continue taking the next steps
in anyone's career in pharmacy.
There are a lot of things that OHSU is on the forefront on
in terms of how do we roll out
new business lines, new service lines.
There's a lot of infrastructure to support a lot of them.
So if anybody's interested in either
the PGY1 or my PGY2 program,
that they're gonna get a lot of different experiences
that might not be available elsewhere.
- I think what makes OHSU stand out
and is a different place compared to other
critical care programs across the country
is one, the diverse patient population that we see here.
We have a lot of complex, medically ill patients
because we are an academic medical center.
I also think our amazing preceptor group
really makes us stand out.
We have groups of pharmacists who were trained
across the country and also here at home,
and so we have a lot of diverse background
from an education standpoint.
Our preceptors are really motivated
to make this the best year it can be
for the PGY2 critical care resident.
And so, they spend a lot of care and energy
in not only trying to impart
their knowledge to the resident,
but also continue to make themselves better as preceptors.
- What we're looking for for a candidate
as a part of our PGY2 program
is we're looking for someone who is very self-motivated,
someone who is also very enthusiastic
about learning and trying to kind of get all the experiences
that they can during this one-year period.
I think we're able to provide all these learning experiences
for our residents so if there is anything
that they're interested in pursuing
that we can at least guide them in that direction.
- Residents in our program really need
to have a positive attitude,
that's what gets you through a tough year,
as well as expressing a genuine interest in learning
'cause our preceptors will provide as much information
and put in as much time as the resident appears
they would like to get out of the program.
I think any resident in any program
at OHSU needs to be a question-asker
and needs to know the why behind what they're doing.
They have a lot of support
and will develop a lot of mentor/mentee relationships
that they'll find along the way.
There's just a lot of connection there,
and a lot of feeling of family and support
as they're going through this difficult learning experience.
- [Narrator] At some point,
it's about the why you do what you do as much as the how.
We do it because we are bold.
We do it because someone needs to make the difference.
And we know we can make the difference
because we already have.
We welcome the curious, inspired,
and those willing to be bold.
What is the difference you wanna make?
This is OHSU.
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