Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Address:
2075 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5

Director:
Dr. Danette Beechinor, BScPharm, PharmD
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 4494
Fax: 416-480-5887
E-mail: danette.beechinor@sunnybrook.ca

Coordinator(s):
Lesley Palmay, BSc, BScPhm, MSc, ACPR
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 87563
Fax: 416-480-5887
E-mail: lesley.palmay@sunnybrook.ca

Contact:
Lesley Palmay, BSc, BScPhm, MSc, ACPR
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 87563
Fax: 416-480-5887
E-mail: lesley.palmay@sunnybrook.ca

Interested applicants:
Please submit a letter of interest and a current curriculum vitae to:

Danette Beechinor, Director of Pharmacy
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Avenue, Room 305
Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5
danette.beechinor@sunnybrook.ca

Program

Type: Inpatient

Focus: Antimicrobial Stewardship

Established In: 2019

Number of Position(s): 1

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

Starting Date: September 2025 (residents taken every 2 years)

Estimated stipend: $75,000 per annum

Benefits: Yes

Vacation/Holiday Leave: 10 days (5 days must be during winter holidays)

Education/Conference Leave: 5 days (Budget to be reviewed annually. Conferences  in North America will be considered, with a preference for Canadian conferences)

Program Highlights:

Formal institutional antimicrobial stewardship programs have become a well-recognized strategy to mitigate the overuse and misuse of antibiotics that contributes to increasing resistance rates, C. difficile infections and adverse drug reactions.  These programs require multi-disciplinary teams that are often lead by specialty trained pharmacists. This residency program is designed to provide pharmacists with the formal training necessary to become a leader in antimicrobial stewardship by enhancing their clinical knowledge of antimicrobial management, providing them with the leadership skills to change practice and expose them to methods for implementing and evaluating antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.  It includes comprehensive rotations in antimicrobial stewardship (including prospective-audit-and-feedback) and infectious diseases, with exposure to sub-specialty areas and patient populations such as HIV ambulatory care, immunocompromised hosts and pediatrics.

The purpose of the Year 2 residency is to prepare graduates for advanced practice and leadership in Antimicrobial Stewardship pharmacy practice.

Core/Required Rotations:

• AMS Prospective Audit and Feedback
• Outpatient IV Antimicrobial Clinic (IVAT)
• Infectious Diseases
• Research
• Teaching and Learning
• Leadership in Medication Safety

Elective Rotations: 

• Community Hospital AMS (External)
• Immunocompromised Hosts (External)
• HIV (External)
• Public Health Ontario (External)
• NICU AMS
• Pediatric AMS (External)

Required Credentials:

The applicant will be a registered pharmacist with one of the following:

• Doctor of Pharmacy as a second professional degree (i.e. post-baccalaureate),
• Master's degree in Advanced Pharmacotherapy, or
• Completion (or due to complete) an accredited Year 1 Pharmacy Residency.

Organization

Type: Tertiary Care, Academic Teaching Hospital

Number of beds: 1,325

Site(s): Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, external rotations available depending on availability

Affiliation: University of Toronto

Graduates

2020-2021	Marina Simeonova
2019-2020	Jennifer Curran