Well (strained laughter), if you do take your informatics job seriously, I hope that you know that Meditech, Epic, and VA's VistA share the same underlying technology in M (Meditech actually uses a 'better' form than Epic and VistA). Meditech gives all sorts of headaches that a young pharmacist will learn all sorts of informatics lessons for when you do upgrade someday to another system. The hardest system to start from a fix perspective actually is Epic, because you have to deal with both the baseline M and the Intersystems Cache version of classes if you end up having to do major troubleshooting. Since you will spend some crank time with Meditech, make it a point to figure out how the data lifecycle works, and how those packages are implemented. You'll find that handy if you move to other systems. The way the industry tells the story, it is the difference between the American philosophy that a car that breaks down all the time but is easily fixable cheaply by complete *****s (Meditech), the German philosophy that a car rarely breaks down but when it does, it requires expert tuning by professionals (Epic), and the Italian philosophy that while a car breaks down all the time and it takes artisan engineers to fix any *(@ing part, it's customizable to consumer taste irrespective if the customer wants Hello Kitty seats with a puke green exterior (VistA).
I would disagree slightly about the necessity (or even fundamental requirement) of the residency programs. The NIH Fellowship (my route) work just as well or better in certain quarters. Those who had CS undergrads still are routinely accepted right out of pharmacy programs and still are accepted into Verona and Braintree that way. And since I do see the appointments in academia and the feds, it's mostly staffed by people who really wanted it and worked at it through job experience rather than formal qualifications (though formal qualifications don't hurt).
I echo the above comment about Siemens and Meditech being *()# systems. I'd add my all-time most hated system that I trained on and worked as an intern with (which gives my age), pdx, as the singularly worst system if you wanted to get any real work done. PDX also was unstable and crashed with corrupt data entry (no ACID compliance) all the time which made it real fun around DEA Inventory checkups.
I didn't think I qualified for the job as I have no experience working in hospital while in school nor residency training. It's in a small rural town in my state and the hospital isn't one of the big names here (it is very well known in the town, tho). but who cares!!! I got my foot in the door and that's all I care about. 
