Explore Temple's PGY-2 Internal Medicine Residency Program.

The Temple University School of Pharmacy PGY-2 Residency in Internal Medicine provides residents with an advanced education that fosters pharmacy leadership and excellence in patient care. The residency is designed to train pharmacists to provide individualized care to adult medicine patients in the inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The rotations are designed to facilitate the development of practice management skills, optimize healthcare using evidenced-based approaches, promote advocacy and service to our patients and community, and contribute to pharmacy student education. The program emphasizes the role of the pharmacist as an educator. Residents have multiple opportunities to teach in large and small classroom settings and to precept experiential learning.

• Orientation – 6 weeks 
• Internal Medicine Inpatient Rounding – 6 weeks  
• Internal Medicine Advanced Therapeutics and Transitions of Care – 6 weeks   
• Internal Medicine Clinical Site Management and Precepting – 6 weeks 
• Ambulatory Care – 6 weeks  
• Critical Care – 6 weeks  
• Infectious Diseases Consult Service – 6 weeks   
• Research – Longitudinal 12 months  
• Committee contributions – Longitudinal 12 months 
• IPPE training – 1 week concentrated learning with 2 weeks of demonstrated application 
• Teaching – Lecture 4 weeks 
• Teaching PY2 Recitation – longitudinal 14 weeks 
• TU MUE – 6 months 

Elective Learning Experience   

• IM specialty services – 3-6 weeks 
• Internal medicine elective – 6 weeks 

*Other elective types may be requested at the beginning of the year.