Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Address:
Pharmacy Department
Royal University Hospital,
103 Hospital Drive
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W8

Director: 
Doreen Zimmer, BSP, ACPR
Director, Pharmacy Services
Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon Area
Phone: 306-655-0983

Coordinator/Contact:
Barb Evans, BSP, ACPR, MSc, FCSHP
Residency Coordinator
Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon Area
Phone: 306-655-2268
Cell: 306-491-9615
Fax: 306-655-2350

Program

Type: General

Focus: Adult and Pediatric Stream

Established In: 1958 (RUH), 1970 (SPH & SCH), 1995 (SHR), 2017 (SHA, Saskatoon area)

Number of Positions: 6

Application Deadline: As per PRAMS

Starting date: June and September intakes

PRAMS (Additional PRAMS requirements to complete the Pharmacy Residency Application and Matching Service (PRAMS) application should be sent through PRAMS when applying to Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon Area program by the application deadline): 

Letter of intent - in 250 words or less, applicant is to explain rationale for applying to SHA Saskatoon residency program. They should cover what appeals to them about the program, how they will fit with the organization's culture and some specific opportunities for growth.

Est. stipend: $60,000 per annum

Benefits: Extended Health Care and Dental Plan 

Vacation/holiday leave: 3 weeks of vacation

Education/conference leave: Stipend provided to support attendance at a hospital pharmacy conference (e.g. CSHP Banff conference, PPC). All residents attend the Manitoba Saskatchewan Management Seminar and the CSHP SK Branch AGM.

Program highlights: Competency based program which encourages residents to develop knowledge, skills, process and values required to excel as a practitioner. In striving towards provision of patient-focused care, emphasis is placed on identifying, solving, and preventing drug-therapy problems. Experiential learning environment using practitioner role models is the primary method of education. This philosophy promotes development of competent, progressive practitioners and nurtures future leaders. Twelve month program includes series of mandatory and elective rotations. Original research project selected by resident must be completed. Supported by contemporary pharmacy services at 4 acute care hospitals, as well as ambulatory and home care settings.

Core Rotations:

• Drug Distribution (4 weeks)
• Direct Patient Care Skills/Drug Information/Safety (4 weeks)
• Medicine (4-6 weeks)
• Pediatrics (4-6 weeks)
• Pharmacy student preceptor (4 weeks)
• Leadership (longitudinal)
• Capstone (3-4 weeks)
• One of: critical care (adults), PICU or NICU (5 weeks)

Adult elective rotations:

• Accountable Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Anticoagulation Management Services (3-4 weeks)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases (3-4 weeks)
• Cardiology (4 weeks)
• Critical Care (5 weeks)
• Emergency (3-4 weeks)
• Home Care (3 weeks)
• Kidney Health (3 weeks)
• Neurology (4 weeks)
• Oncology (4 weeks)
• Positive Living Program (3-4 weeks)
• Rx Files (4 weeks)
• Transplantation (4 weeks)

Pediatric elective rotations:

• Ambulatory Care (3-4 weeks)
• NICU (4 weeks)
• Oncology (4 weeks)
• PICU (4 weeks)

Required credentials: Must be a graduate of an accredited entry-to-practice pharmacy degree program.

Minimum required credentials: Candidates to hold a valid Practicing Pharmacist License from a Canadian Pharmacy Regulatory body at the time of application and be in possession of a Practicing Pharmacist License from the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals (SCPP) on the first day of the residency program or be in possession of a Conditional License from SCPP on the first day of the residency program as per SCPP bylaws.

Other eligibility requirements: Residents are expected to be licensed as soon as eligible.

Organization

Type: Provincial health care environment

Number of beds: 1072

Sites: Jim Pattison Children's Hospital, Royal University Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon City Hospital 

Affiliation: College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan

Graduates

2023-2024	Tannis Perault Logan Richardson Jade Weimer Kacey Yee-Sellar
2022-2023	Taylor Adolphe Marina DaSilva Arjun Jabbal Brittany Scutchings Kassy Zenkewich
2021-2022	Habiba Elshorbagy Jenna Fan Hersh Shukla Calvin Yee
2020-2021	Aundrea Mueller Tyler Wacker Lisa Toy Kyla Phillips
2019-2020	Diar Alazawi Kristin Arguin Hishaam Bhimji Avery Deichert Jennifer Rosen Tara Rousseaux
2018-2019	Janelle Kraft Shelby Pflanzner Kassandra Stahl Ashley Yagelniski
2017-2018	Coral Ennis Heather Hodgson Behshad Vatanparast Meagan Rieger
2016-2017	Alecia Gauthier Jeff Herbert Rachel Martin Andrew Plishka
2015-2016	Karolina Koziol Aleta Martens Danielle Shmyr