I have 5 years experience at my community hospital. I have worked in the basement, on the floor, on stroke rounds, and in the emergency room. I have done consults. Attended codes. Attended brain attacks. I have precepted students. I have precepted residents. I have been offered, but declined, the ability to work in the oncology infusion center.
This idea that residency trumps experience is a line of bull****. I have scored higher than all of our residency trained pharmacists on the BCPS. I am faster at putting in orders. I am faster at coming up with pharmacotherapy solutions.
Do the residents have a few weeks of experience that I do not have, yes. Sure. If I really wanted that experience would the NICU specialist and the ICU specialist help me out and send me the articles and review topics with me, sure. However, if you aren't practicing in that area you will "forget" those things anyway if you aren't using them on a daily basis.
Finally, screw this residency business. It has now been perverted into a lower paid year one (and now soon to be year 2) where the institutions don't have to even train pharmacists anymore. They expect perfectly seasoned pharmacists now. Good for them, I guess. They make them do a "residency" pay them 1/3 of normal wages, overwork them, and then pick the 'best' one for any job openings.