title: The Value of Pharmacy Residency Training for Health Systems: An Annotated Bibliography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Identify and summarize articles that describe the value that pharmacy residency training offers to sponsoring health systems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a tremendous gap between the number of resident applicants and the number of pharmacy residencies available. Informing health-system administration executives about the proven value of residency training is key to expanding the number of available positions. To address this disparity, a comprehensive and systematic literature search to identify publications highlighting the value that pharmacy residency training provides to the sponsor hospital or health system was conducted. Articles were identified through query of PubMed and SciVerse SCOPUS and through review of bibliographies from relevant articles. Twenty articles were identified and summarized in this annotated bibliography that demonstrate perceived and quantitative value of pharmacy residency training for health systems that sponsor residency training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacy residency training programs are essential for pharmacists that will primarily engage in direct patient care activities. This annotated bibliography includes key publications that provide evidence of the value that pharmacy residents provide to the sponsoring health system. This manuscript will aid prospective residency directors interested in developing new residency positions at new institutions or for residency program directors interested in expanding the total number of resident positions available at the existing sites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USA Department of Pharmacy Services, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA Department of Surgery, Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA swan.joshua@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Joshua T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Swan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giouroukakis
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Brandon R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Shank
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Crona
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy Practice & Administration, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wombwell
mesh_terms: D004514:Education, Pharmacy, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000458:organization & administration*; D064172:Pharmacy Residencies; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024382:Professional Role
keywords: health-system pharmacy; internship and residency; pharmacy graduate education; pharmacy residency; postgraduate pharmacy training