PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
PGY1 Program Purpose: PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.
The University of Oklahoma Health Campus (OUHC) PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Training Program is sponsored by the College of Pharmacy in affiliation with OU Health. Key components of this 12-month residency program include:
- Appointment to the academic rank of Clinical Instructor with the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy.
- Opportunities for didactic and experiential teaching within the pharmacy curriculum.
- Opportunities in rotation practice sites to provide informal and formal presentations to other members of the health-care team.
- Participation in the OU College of Pharmacy teaching certificate program (i.e., Foundational Teaching Skills for Residents), a residency requirement that provides:
- Foundational knowledge of essential skills for effective teaching.
- Diversity opportunities to apply practice teaching skills.
- Practical experience applicable to didactic lectures, clinical presentations, and platform presentations.
Practice Sites
Headquartered in Oklahoma City, OU Health is the University of Oklahoma’s comprehensive academic health system offering a broad range of medical and surgical services in the region. The system is closely integrated with seven health professional colleges, combining patient care, medical education, and research to improve health outcomes across the state.
Site special features include:
- Oklahoma’s first Level I trauma center
- The state’s only National Cancer Institute-Designated cancer center
- The state's leading pediatric hospital
- Expert care across more than 75 adult and pediatric specialties and subspecialties
- Offers the highest level of care for stroke patients, providing advanced neurology and neurosurgery services, newborn care with a level IV neonatal ICU, and contains the city’s only 24/7 pediatric emergency room
- Home to Oklahoma’s most experienced organ transplant team, including solid organ transplantation services in pediatric kidney and heart transplant
- Comprehensive center for hematology/oncology and stem cell transplant (Jimmy Everest Center)
- Comprehensive center for pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery (Presbyterian Health Foundation Heart Center)
- Level IV NICU
- Behavioral Health Center for short- and long-term mental health care for pediatric patients (Expected opening Fall 2026)
- Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Award for Excellence in Life Support – Gold Level in 2025
Inpatient practice sites include:
- OU Health University of Oklahoma Medical Center:
- 515-bed teaching hospital and central training site for physicians in the state of Oklahoma
- Comprehensive care including a Level I trauma center, general medicine, and surgical services
- Broad subspecialty services, including cardiology, neurology, nephrology, hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health:
- Licensed for 342 beds
- 106-bed NICU
- 34-bed PICU
- 25-bed CICU
- 24-bed emergency department
- 6-bed dialysis unit
- 19-bed heme/onc unit
- 8-bed stem cell transplant unit
- High risk OB:
- 16 labor and delivery beds
- 40 mother/baby unit beds
Outpatient practice sites include:
- OU Health General Internal Medicine Clinic
- OU Health Family Medicine Clinic
- OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center
- OU Health Physicians Family Medicine Center
- OU Health Children’s Physicians
- Variety Care