St. Joseph's Pharmacy Residency Program
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program (est. 2005) produces highly qualified clinical pharmacists fully ready to meet the demands of clinical practice or transition seamlessly into a PGY2 residency program.
Our PGY2 Critical Care Residency is designed to provide a diverse and challenging learning environment in order to create exceptional future specialists in critical care who are ready to exceed in a variety of areas.
Our program offers four PGY1 positions and one PGY2 Critical Care position every year. Please click on the individual page links to learn more about program offerings.
What Makes St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center a Unique Place to Train?
Located in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (SJHMC) is a 587 bed not-for-profit academic teaching hospital. St. Joseph’s is a nationally recognized center for quality quaternary care, medical education, and research. SJHMC is home to the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, Ivy Brain Tumor Center, Norton Thoracic Institute, Dignity Health-Cancer Institute (DHCI). SJHMC also offers a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a Level I Trauma Center that is certified by the American College of Surgeons.
More lung transplants were completed at SJHMC than any other hospital in the nation in 2016. We consistently rank as one of the top hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News and World Report. The Emergency Department treats in excess of 83,000 patients a year and functions as the hospital entry point for many of our patients. The hospital serves a high acuity patient population as evidenced by our 126 adult ICU beds and over 70 neonatal ICU beds. The adult ICU beds are divided between the neuro ICU, medical ICU, surgical ICU, trauma ICU, and cardiothoracic ICU. The unique services offered at SJHMC draw complex patients from around the country. As a resident at St. Joseph’s, you will function as an integral part of multidisciplinary medical service teams by rounding, assisting in determining medical therapy, performing clinical consult and dosing services in phenytoin, warfarin, aminoglycosides and vancomycin, and assisting with medical education of providers and patients.
Founded in 1895 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Joseph’s was the first hospital in the Phoenix area and is now the flagship hospital in the Dignity Health system. Dignity Health is an expansive healthcare system with 39 hospitals and more than 400 care centers in communities across California, Arizona, and Nevada. Find out more about our faith-based history, mission, vision, and values. Dignity Health is also part of CommonSpirit Health, a system of hospitals covering 21 states across the U.S. Residents will be incorporated into the process of actively influencing change at the facility level, the service area level, and at a large system level.
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Questions? Contact our Program Directors!
PGY 1 Pharmacy Practice Residency
Christian Eslinger, PharmD, MBA, MEng, BCPS
PGY1 Residency Program Director
[email protected]
PGY 2 Critical Care Residency
John Radosevich, PharmD, FCCM, BCCCP, BCPS
PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Director
[email protected]
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
350 West Thomas Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85013
