Hôpital Montfort

Address:
Département de pharmacie
713 Montréal Road
Ottawa, ON, K1K 0T1

Residency Director:
Emmanuel Pitre, B.Sc.Pharm
Pharmacy Manager

Residency Coordinator:
Caitlin Richler, BScH, PharmD, ACPR
Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator
 

Program

Type: General

Focus: Provide immersive clinical training that prepares highly competent pharmacists through direct patient care, teaching, research, and interprofessional collaboration in a bilingual academic hospital

Established In: 2027 (previously joint program since 2012)

Number of Positions: 1

Application Deadline: As per PRAMS

Starting Date: September 7, 2027

Estimated Stipend: $50,000

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):

  1. Resume/curriculum vitae 
  2. You are required to have a functional ability to understand and speak French.
  3. Please describe in French your experience and ability to work in a Francophone environment (150 words). Vous devez avoir une capacité fonctionnelle à  comprendre et à parler français. Veuillez décrire en Français votre expérience et habileté à travailler en milieu francophone (150 mots).

Vacation/Holiday Leave: 10 days + 5 "flex days"

Education/Conference Leave: 5 days

Program Highlights: 

The Hôpital Montfort Pharmacy Residency Program provides a structured 52-week training experience designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and professional competencies required for contemporary hospital pharmacy practice. While the program will welcome its first resident as an independent program in 2027, it is built on more than a decade of residency training experience at Hôpital Montfort through the joint Ottawa Hospital-Hôpital Montfort Pharmacy Residency Program. An individualized learning plan is developed for each resident based on their interests, learning needs, and career goals.

Program highlights include:

  • Training within Ontario's largest francophone academic teaching hospital
  • Individualized learning experience with close preceptor mentorship
  • Strong academic affiliation with the University of Ottawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Access to elective rotations at partner institutions, allowing residents to tailor their training to their individual interests and career goals
  • Diverse clinical experiences across acute care, ambulatory care, and specialty practice areas, providing exposure to the full continuum of care
  • Opportunities to participate in teaching, research, and quality improvement initiatives
  • Supportive and collaborative pharmacy team committed to resident development

Clinical Required Rotations: 

  • General Medicine
  • Cardiology
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship / Infectious Diseases
  • Critical Care (ICU)
  • Capstone Final Rotation

Non-Clinical Required Rotations:

  • Leadership
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Drug Information
  • Distribution and Medication-Use Systems
  • Research Project

Elective Rotations:

  • Mental Health
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Pain and Addiction Management Consult Rotation
  • Family Health Team and Chronic Disease Management Clinic
  • External rotations at partner institutions (e.g., CHEO, Bruyère Health, The Ottawa Hospital, or community and rural practice sites), based on the resident's interests, learning objectives, and availability.

Required Credentials: 

  • PharmD degree (or equivalent)
  • Eligibility for registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists
  • Functional ability to understand and communicate in French

 

Organization

Type: Academic Teaching Hospital

Number of beds (approximate): 331

Sites: 

  • Hôpital Montfort (primary training site)
  • Carrefour santé Aline-Chrétien (elective rotation in chronic disease management)

 

Graduates
2024-2025 Aaya Abed
Jocelyn Bonti-Ankomah
Claire Butler
Brianna Kops
Kristy (Tsz Shan) Wong
2023-2024

Kyla Agtarap
Yousif Jaheinsha
Maria Josey
Randilynne Urslak
Emma Young

2022-2023

 

 
Carolanne Caron 
Letissia Fadel 
Helen Huynh
Alexandra (Sasha) Goldstein 
Debanjali Purkayastha
Hannah Saunders
2021-2022 Arvind Grewal
Kadaajah Johnson
Arielle Leone
Vanessa Nzeribe
John Ren

2020-2021

 

Sydney Morin
Mikaela Ney
Sophie Peltekian
Sarah Spec
Chandni Sehgal

2019-2020

 

Samuel Dubinsky
Deep Patel
Onella Pereira
Samantha Perez
Marie-Claire Savoie

2018-2019

 

Michelle Boyce
Ryan Marko
Lauren (Ellie) Salsbury
Pierre Thabet
Melissa Cammuso

2017-2018

 

Jacky Cheung
Kavetha Selvathilagan
Xiang Wang
Jason Yung
Erica MacLean

2016-2017

 

Ellen Dawson
Silvija Mihajlovic
Andrew Osinga
Priya Patel

2015-2016

 

Ara Cho
Sarah Drost
Alicia Forest
Stephanie Gautron
Christine Trieu