PGY-2 Internal Medicine Residency Program

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.

Required Rotations
(6 weeks unless otherwise indicated)
• Orientation (5-weeks)
• Internal Medicine I
• Internal Medicine II (advanced therapeutics and transitions of care)
• Internal Medicine III (clinical site management and precepting)
• Ambulatory care
• Critical Care

Elective Rotation (residents select 3)
• Infectious Disease
• Geriatrics
• Serve as a co-instructor in P&T recitation (Fall semester)
• Serve as a primary instructor in P&T recitation (Spring semester)
• Serve as an IPPE preceptor