PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

The Pharmacy Residency Program at Trinity Health Muskegon, Graduate Medical Education believes that pharmacists can and must have an active role in patient care within the health system. This program offers a positive atmosphere to learn and grow professionally by providing opportunities to teach, to collaborate with other healthcare professionals, and provide direct patient care.

Accredited by ASHP since 2001, our PGY1 residency program at Trinity Health Muskegon is designed to train pharmacists in central hospital pharmacy, clinical unit-based pharmacy practice, and ambulatory pharmacy practice. We offer two PGY1 resident positions with acute care electives and two PGY1 resident positions with ambulatory care electives (four total PGY1 resident positions).

Our program prides itself on molding rotations to meet individual resident educational goals, building on the foundation of advanced clinical pharmacy practice.

Graduates of the program have successfully pursued clinical, staff, faculty, and managerial roles in various health systems throughout the United States.

Since 2020, we also offer an ASHP accredited PGY2 Ambulatory Care position.

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Mission Statement

The mission of the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program is to provide educational and experiential opportunities in order to help its residents:

• Rapidly develop clinical and professional skills used by pharmacists
• Contribute to and participate in the education of other health professionals
• Promote pharmacy as an essential component of hospital-based health care
• Provide personalized care to Trinity Health Muskegon patients

Statement of Purpose

PGY1 pharmacy residency programs including the Trinity Health Muskegon, Graduate Medical Education residency program build upon Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals, and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership, and education, and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy (i.e., BCPS), and pursue advanced education and training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies.

For more information, please contact: 

Lindy Farwig, PharmD, BCPS 
231-672-3746 
lindy.farwig@trinity-health.org

Our Services

• Fifteen ambulatory primary care pharmacy practice sites throughout the Muskegon and surrounding areas including a family medicine residency clinic, and an internal medicine residency clinic. Specialty clinic pharmacy services are also provided for our HIV clinic, Hepatitis C clinic, heart failure clinic, and OBGYN residency clinic. In addition, we provide contracted ambulatory pharmacy services for Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) facilities in Muskegon and Holland.
• Four pharmacist-managed outpatient anti-coagulation locations
• Unit-based pharmacy model which provides inpatient pharmacy services (pharmacokinetic dosing services, anticoagulation monitoring services, emergency department services, and antimicrobial stewardship) for multiple sites
• Six community pharmacies, including a specialty pharmacy, serving the Muskegon area providing outpatient Hospice services