Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Address:
c/o South Health Campus
4448 Front Street SE
Calgary, AB, T3M 1M4

Director:
Dr. Tania Mysak, BSP, PharmD
Director, Practice, AHS Pharmacy Services
Phone:  780-735-0770

Coordinator/Contact:
Dr. Rhonda Roedler, BScPharm, ACPR, PharmD, CDE
Clinical Practice Leader
Phone: 403-956-1570
Fax: 403-956-1574
 

Program

Type: General

Focus:

Established in: 1978

# Positions: 4

App. deadline: October 13, 2023

Starting date: July 2, 2024 

PRAMS (Additional PRAMS requirements to complete the Pharmacy Residency Application and Matching Service (PRAMS) application should be sent through PRAMS when applying by the application deadline): None

Est. stipend: Approximately $46,600 per annum

Benefits: yes

Vacation/Holiday Leave: 10 paid days

Education/Conference Leave: Budget and time may be provided to support residents to attend conferences

Program highlights: Residents complete various rotations in the 5 urban hospitals within the City of Calgary. This multi-site program creates the opportunity to learn from a number of practitioners in a variety of settings. Rotation schedules can be adjusted to accommodate preceptor availability and resident choices. Rotations outside of Calgary may be arranged to accommodate the resident's interests

Required Rotations: 

• Medication Use Systems (1 week)
• Management and Leadership (3 weeks)
• Drug Information (1 week)
• Undergraduate Clinical Precepting (4 weeks)
• Medicine (6 weeks)
• Cardiology (4-5 weeks)
• Infectious Disease (4-5 weeks)
• Ambulatory Care (4-5 weeks) 
• Critical Care (4-5 weeks)
• Residency research project (9 weeks)
   

Elective Rotations: 

Chosen based on the interests of the resident and the availability of the rotations.  There is enough time allotted to allow for one to two elective rotations of 4-5 weeks in duration.  The rotations listed below are a summary of commonly available electives at the present time. There is a possibility that additional rotations may become available with addition of new practice areas.  Some of the electives listed below are also available as ambulatory rotations.

• Nephrology
• Renal Transplant
• Diabetes/Chronic Disease Management 
• Academic Family Medicine
• HIV Clinic
• Mental Health
• Emergency
• Pediatrics
• Geriatrics 
• Chronic Pain
• Oncology

Minimum required credentials: Entry to practice Pharmacy Professional Degree (eg BSc, BSP, PharmD), and eligible for the Clinical register of the Alberta College of Pharmacists

Organization

Type: Tertiary teaching hospitals

Number of beds: 2300

Sites: Peter Lougheed Centre, Rockyview General Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta Children's Hospital, South Health Campus

Graduates

2022-2023	Megan Hopkins Zachary Kronbauer Lena Makortoff Cody Thompson
2021-2022	Kristen Blundell Japheth Bool Elizer Erpilla Heather Tieu
2020-2021	Jessica Buhler Carolyn Kasprzak Jordan Kelly Calli Safnuk
2019-2020	Raafi Ali Oleksandr (Alex) Baran Cassandra Cooper Peter Van Herk
2018-2019	Thomas Brownlee  Jaksa Novovic Aliaksandr Savin Amanda Sha
2017-2018	Batam Duong Chris Evernden Amanda Leong Sydney Saunders
2016-2017	Jayesh Changela Sandeep Dhillon Jonathan Hung Faizath Yallou
2015-2016	Uzma Alim Heidi Banasch Luiza Radu Josee Rioux