Pharmacy residency program

Abbott Northwestern Pharmacy Residency Program provides residents with skill development in basic and specialized patient-centered care, service excellence, practice management and leadership. Pharmacy practice is decentralized, supported by an Epic electronic health record and a medication distribution system of automated dispensing cabinets through which over 90 percent of medication doses are supplied.

Residents interact with dozens of pharmacists with skills in a variety of clinical pharmacy specialties, management and leadership. Residents gain valuable experience by participating in multidisciplinary patient care rounds, medication use assessments, preparing and presenting educational programs, staffing and completing a major research project. Residents are involved in student precepting at the hospital and may participate in a teaching certificate and teaching assistant assignments at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

Abbott Northwestern is ranked #1 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area and #2 in Minnesota for the twelfth year in a row in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Abbott Northwestern Hospital is ranked or rated as high performing in cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, geriatrics , neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics , pulmonology & lung surgery, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, back surgery (spinal fusion),COPD, colon cancer surgery, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, kidney failure, knee replacement, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery and stroke.

In 2021, IBM Watson Health™ named Abbott Northwestern one of the top–performing hospitals in the U.S. by including the hospital on the 100 Top Hospitals® list.

In 2019, the American Nurses Credentialing Center awarded continued Magnet Recognition Program® status to Abbott Northwestern Hospital, making it one of less than 10 percent of all U.S. hospitals that have been designated Magnet™ facilities. The hospital is home to the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, and the Allina Health Cancer Institute. The hospital maintains an academic affiliation with the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.