Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Address:
Joint Pharmacy Residency
501 Smyth Road
Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6

Director Pharmacy & Residency:
Dr. Alexander Kuo, BScPharm, PharmD, ACPR
Phone: 613-737-8899 x 72278
Fax: 613-737-8891

Residency Coordinators:

Program

Type: General

Established In: 1972

Number of Positions: 4 (TOH) + 1 (Montfort)

Application Deadline: As per PRAMS

Starting Date: September 2024

Estimated Stipend: $40,000 per year

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 (for both The Ottawa Hospital and Hôpital Montfort)
2. For Hôpital Montfort position ONLY:
   a) You are required to have a functional ability to understand and speak French.
   
   b) 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: 2 weeks + 5 "flex days"

Education/Conference Leave: 1 week

Program Highlights: Program is designed to provide basics of hospital pharmacy practice with patient orientation.  Major emphasis is placed on services particular to hospital: Clinical Pharmacy, Drug Information, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Clinical Toxicology. Program exposes the resident to all varieties of drug problems: therapeutic, pharmaceutic, administrative and toxicological. The resident is continually confronted with problem situations and expected to respond and assist in their resolution. Effective communication of therapeutic drug knowledge in the clinical setting is a major emphasis.

Required Rotations:

• General Medicine (5 + 2 weeks for "capstone rotation")
• Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship (4 weeks)
• Hematology/Oncology (4 weeks)
• Cardiology or Nephrology (4 weeks)
• Drug Distribution (3 weeks)
• Drug Information (2 weeks)
• Teaching/Preceptorship Rotation (5 weeks)*
• Selective/elective rotations (2 x 4 weeks)
• Clinical orientation (3 weeks)
• Project (8 weeks)
• Administration (1 week)

*The Teaching/Preceptorship Rotation takes place during one clinical rotation that is extended from 4 weeks to 5 weeks. The pharmacy resident will be precepting a pharmacy student during this rotation.

The Montfort resident will ideally spend 32 weeks of the program at the Hôpital Montfort, and the balance of their weeks at either campus of TOH. The Hôpital Montfort resident is required to have a functional ability to understand and speak French. 

Minimum Required Credentials: Eligible for licensure within Canada

Organization

Type:

• The Ottawa Hospital campuses: Tertiary care, teaching hospital 
• Montfort: acute primary and secondary care, teaching hospital

Number of beds (approximate): TOH: >1100 and Montfort: 290

Sites: TOH General Campus, Civic Campus, Heart Institute, and Hôpital Montfort

Affiliation: University of Toronto (for residency program), University of Ottawa

Graduates

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