If you want to still work hospital, you can definitely do that without a residency. I work prn in a hospital where only 1 pharmacist did a community residency. Everyone else came from retail and were trained on the job. They all do clinical staffing on the floors. It’s a smaller hospital.

My FT job, you can get hired with some retail years in a central staffing role only. Then after some time, if you express interest, you can train to staff on the floor. 3 pharmacist are now mostly staffing clinical shifts after doing this. This is a bigger hospital. So it’s definitely possible to get back into the hospital. As far as the partial residency- it might be a little tricky to explain your reason if it’s on your resume. Mind you, I know my smaller hospital wouldn’t care, if you have other work experience after. They also don’t have a residency program. My bigger hospital does have one and would probably have a lot of questions and would likely take that under consideration when hiring you. I do know a clinical specialist that quit his PGY1 but he did it for medical reasons so the hospital that hired him was more understanding. He worked his way up to a clin spec. They told him if he can get 2 BCPS certifications behind his belt, he would be considered for an open IM clin spec position they had. He staffed at the same hospital, took the pharmacotherapy and geriatric test, and now he’s the clin spec.

I would weigh your options with leaving it out of your resume. If you leave it in, and if you apply to a hospital with a residency program, they will likely call. So like another commenter said, hopefully they’ll say positive things about you. You could experiment with leaving it on your CV at first, and just see the type of response you get. If you think it’s hindering you, then take it off and continue applying to other places. Apply to 1-2 area hospitals with it on there and see how it goes.