Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Address:
CP 6128, succursale centre-ville
Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7

Residency Co-Directors:

Mme Katherine Desforges, B.Pharm, M.Sc., Pharm.D
Phone: 514-343-6111 ext. 13964

Mme Pascale Meunier, B.Pharm.
Phone: 514-343-6111 ext. 0343

Residency Coordinators:
 

Program Websites:

• https://pharm.umontreal.ca/etudes/cycles-superieurs/maitrise-en-pharmacotherapie-avancee/#c67296
• https://admission.umontreal.ca/programmes/maitrise-en-pharmacotherapie-avancee/
• https://admission.umontreal.ca/programmes/diplome-complementaire-en-pharmacotherapie-avancee/

Program

Type: General

Focus: Advanced Pharmacotherapy

Established in: 1961

Number of Positions: 64

Application Deadline: March 15th

Starting Date: Last week of August

Estimated Stipend: $55,000 ( to be confirmed) with an obligation to work 2 years in a hospital in the province of Québec ("Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux" du Québec, QC applicants) 
https://avenirensante.gouv.qc.ca/bourses-d-etudes/bourses-en-pharmacotherapie-avancee

Benefits: https://admission.umontreal.ca/decouvrir-ludem/joindre-la-communaute/services-aux-etudiants/

Vacation/Holiday Leave: 4 weeks

Education/Conference Leave: 7 days 

Program highlights: University program (master degree) in advanced pharmacotherapy (16-month residency, including a class semester of 4 months, total 60 credits). In-class teaching, workshops, clinical clerkships in specialties, research and management projects. Residents are expected to become skilled and autonomous in the provision of pharmaceutical care and services, to provide drug information to patients & health care professionals, to prepare and conduct research and management projects, and to become role models for undergraduate students.

Required Rotations:

• 1 x 4 weeks Pharmacy Services
• 1 x 4 weeks Internal Medicine, General Medicine, Pediatric, or Geriatric Medicine
• 1 x 4 weeks Oncology
• 1 x 4 weeks Intensive Care or Emergency
• 1 x 4 weeks Optional Rotation in a Non-Accredited Hospital
• 2 x 4 weeks Research Project

Elective Rotations:

Residents choose elective rotations from the following non-exhaustive list (5 x 4 weeks optional rotation ambulatory rotation or hospitalized patients):
 

• Antibiotic Stewardship
• Cardiology
• Drug Information Centre
• Geriatrics
• Hepatology
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Surgery
• Neonatalogy
• Nephrology
• Neurology

Minimum Required Credentials:

The candidate must:

• have a Bachelor in Pharmacy or an entry-level PharmD degree in pharmacy;
• have a cumulative average grade of at least 3.0/4.3 (or the equivalent) for their undergraduate pharmacy degree;
• have a pharmacy practice license in the province of Québec (from the Québec licensing body Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec);
• be fluent in both written and spoken French since all classes are taught in French;
• if necessary, provide proof of sufficient knowledge of French by submitting the results of a French language test recognized by the Université de Montréal.  The results must attest to the achievement of level B2 of The Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR);
• have a good knowledge of written and oral English;
• apply to both Master and the complementary diploma in advanced pharmacotherapy programs;
• have completed the 600-hours internship before applying (for students who have graduated outside the province of Québec and who have completed the PEBC examination);
• if not graduated from a Canadian institution, have significant experience in a Canadian hospital environment;
• submit their CV, a cover letter, and a reference letter;
• complete a selection interview, that can be eliminatory.

Other Eligibility Requirements:

The candidate must:

• become a member of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the A.P.E.S during residency.
• pay the required institutional fees.
• have a laptop that meets university requirements.
• hold valid Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
• comply with vaccination requirements.
• comply with criminal record check requirements.

Organization

Type: University-based program

Number of Beds: Variable according to sites

Name of Sites Residents Attend for Rotations:

• Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)
• Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal 
• CHU Sainte-Justine
• Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont / Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM)
• Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé 
• Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) / Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Sherbrooke (IUGS)
• Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM) 
• Hôpital général juif
• Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne
• Institut de cardiologie de Montréal (ICM) / Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM)

Affiliation: Université de Montréal

Graduates

2023-2024	Marwa Rim Aimarah Iulia Andra Andrei Yasmina Baraka Veronica Bellissimo Delphine Courchesne Mariam Dabayeh Mélissa Doutre Marie-Pier Godin Marianne Grimard-Keita Sophia Groguhe Ahmed Hammoud Philip Han Irma Huskanovic Meriem Khatem Aline Kilo Olivier Landry Angelica Le Dieu-Hang Le Marianne Le Corre Meriam Lefki Stéphanie Moore William Ng Hung Hee Beatriz Noé Rose Poitras Sabrina Robert Christine Sirmalis Lilia Tran Justine Verdier Cai Qi Xu Millie Yee Mélina Yip Jenny Zhang
2022-2023	Massilia Benali Alexandra Biebuyck William Boudreau Sarah Brideau Léa Callens Katerine Chalifoux Sydney Choquette Joani Côté-Cyr Stéphanie Crête Sophie D'Aronco Sarah Dabouz Alice Dion-Laplante Tiffany Duong Frédérique Frigon Christina Furneri Jonathan Garcia Gabrielle Gauthier Alexandra Gervais Cheng Ji Cassandra Kezouh Peter Kwan Élisabeth Le Blanc Marianne Leblanc Emma Legault Claudia Lord Mounia Louerguioui Maria Macoviciuc Irina Mitrea Ivona Nacevska An Ngo Phong Philip Ouimet Yasmeen Ouy Bogdan Andrei Panait Marianne Paradis-Roberge Patricia Poirier Maurane Ricard Mélodie Richard-Laferrière Daphné Robitaille Catherine Roy Aryane Roy Argem Joy Sabuga Rémi St-Germain Camille Sr-Jean Samuel Starnino Abinaya Subramaniam Anabelle Tellier Evelyne Thériault Winnie Tran Félix Trudel-Bourgault Bao Ling Wei
2021-2022	Noah Adessky Olivier Beauparlant Lamarre Camille Benoit Laurence Bertrand Maéva Blot Kristina Bourdeau Myriam Breton Fei Wen Chen Laurie-Anne Cornellier Marie D'Amours Mélina Del Bianco-Rondeau Daniel Desjardins Matthew DiSchiavi Marie-Eve Dumas Farah Ettis Myriam Fréchette-Le Bel Catherine Gagnon Sarah-Jane Gagnon-Lépine Lauriane Ginefri Yue Ling Gong Mali Gou Yu Hong Kamilia Idir Laurie Jeannotte Azam Khodamoradi Sunhee Kim Andréanne Labranche Camélie Lamoureux Justine Lauzon Johny Lim Angela-Sinlan Lin Poo Yuan Wiam Maachy Christine Martineau Olivier Massé Noémie Maurice Claudia Mercurio Wael Mouas Béatrice Nguyen Noémie Otis Jérémy Payette Rose Prévost Frédéric Provost Kenza Rais Anne Régazzoni Joëlle Rhéaume-Majeau Mélanie Roy Émilie Roy-St-Pierre Camille Sanscartier Catherine Tremblay Geneviève White Fang Hao Zhang
2020-2021	Kym Archambault  Sandra Arencibia Cubas  Miakim Aubin  Véronique Bilodeau  Emily Bing  Sophie Daigle  Elizabeth Delisle  Laurence Doré  Marie-Pier Ducas  Jean-Pierre El-Khoury  Yi Tong Fang  Nicolas Gagnon  Camille Gauthier  Sophie Gauthier  Alix-Anne Gendron  Arianne Giard  Justine Huot  Caren Jabamikos  Emmanuelle Jacques  Cynthia Krieg  Jessica LeBlanc  Myriam Lemelin  Sophie Léveillé  Brian Ly  Ruth Bernine  Marcelin Antoine  Marquis Kenzi  Wassil Mokhtari  Carolanne Mongeon  Tyler Liam Morissette  Danielle Fany Ngontie Tcheudjio Kim Dan Nguyen  Michelle Nguyen  Anne-Sophie Otis  Julie Pagé-Béchard  Laurence Paré  Marie-Anne Pépin  Catherine Perreault  Caroline Phuong  Alice Sananikone  Andréanne Savich  Sandra Savignac  Rusaila Shakhtur-Alqawasma Philippe Sirois  Andreea Statie  Zoe Tremblay  Emilie Veilleux  Anna Wong
2019-2020	Zahra Abow Mohamed Laetissia Amirouche Johannie Beaucage-Charron Houda Abir Benabdou Geneviève Brassard Alexandra Cerrulli-Kanellopoulos Flora Chen Marie-Pier Desbiens Léa Desbiens-Léger Patrick Deschênes Audrey Desjardins Christine Dinh Marie-Hélène Fugère Laurence Gaudet Sophie-Camille Hogue Sarah Lagacé-Nadon Cindy Lam Sarah Lamothe Sébastien Landry Laurence Larochelle Mélodie Larose Sally Lavallée Véronique LeBlanc Sandrine Léger Viviane Le-Nguyen Marika Lepage-Légaré My Hanh Luu Hoai Karine Moineau-Vallée Jean-Noël Morin Alissar Mourad Ghina Moussa Walid Nahi Dan Son Nguyen Cloé Pelletier Sarah Pelletier Anne-Sophie Pépin Julien Prévost Anne Proulx-Gagnon Hugo Ricignuolo Justine Rinfret François Robidoux Valérie Roy Safa Sabsabi David Sperlea Gabrielle St-Louis Valérie St-Louis Léa Turgeon-Mallette Gabriel  Varinot Aurélie Vintze-Geoffrion Annie Vo Chloé Vo
2018-2019	Stefano Barillaro Isabelle Baron Caroline Bernard Kaitlin Bondurant-David Audrey Bouchard Nicolas Bouchard François Bourdeau Geneviève Bourque Michelle Chen Florence Correal Karine Côté Kevin Côté Sébastien Dang Marc-Alexandru Dobrescu Francis Flynn Sophie Gaudreau Marjolaine Giroux Myriam Guèvremont Chadi Hassan Anik Henderson Lindsay Eden Hoffman Matthew Hung Michael Khazaka Lesly Lam Jeanne Laverdière Philippe Léveillé-Dugas Shirel Ora-Lee Levy Chen Chen Li Laurence Loiselle Stevenson Ly Flaviu Adrian Mosora Clément Nutu Marjorie Pigeon Rosa Pyon Guillaume Richard Alexandre Rivard Marie-Jeanne Rivest Julien Roger Zong Heng Shi David Sperlea Vincent Thierry Taillefer Van Anh Sylvie Tran Oliver Turcotte Gabriel Vézina Yu Shan Zhang
2017-2018	Philippe Arbour Alexandra Arruda Karianne Beaulieu Jean-François Cabot Evelyn Meyan Chin Laura Delucilla Jean-Simon Denault Marie-Lou Deschamps Stephanie Elofer Jennifer Fontaine Isabelle Francoeur Étienne Gendron Alexandra Hinse Iulia Hustiuc Michel Korkemaz Jean-Simon Labarre Philippe Labrosse Charlie Li Lamoureux Hugo Langlois Sophie Lanthier Antoine LeBrun Qian Li Marie Loranger Florence Marcotte Émilie Mégrourèche Laurence Messier Flavie Pettersen Coulombe Mathieu Predan-Chauvin Laura Catherine Proulx Anthony Rainone Marie Frédérique Rousseau Annie Routhier Verina Sieu Caroline Spinelli Chloé Trudeau Virginie Verreault Karima Zerrouki
2016-2017	Vincent Barré Véronique Bédard Anne-Marie Bégin Léa Catherine Bellerose Bélanger Etienne Boudrias-Dalle Marianne Boulé Enya Brouillette-Allard Frédéric Charpentier Mylène Chiasson Magali Cloutier Laurence Collin-Lévesque Julia De Rose Emile Demers Shafik Dissou Camille Dufort Rouleau Yosra El-Ghaddaf Victor Ferreira Maude Fortier Madeleine Genest Marjorie Harvey Philippe Hogan Iman Jundi Vanessa King Sophie Lachapelle Emmie Lavallée Benjamin Martin Chloé Masse Karina Mcewen Marie-Lawrence Monfette Laurence Morisette Sandy Nguyen Dima Nwilati Anis Nassime Ouyahia Catherine Pagé Béchard Mariam Pinsonneault Roxane Plourde Amélie Veilleux Simon Williams
2015-2016	Sabrina Almassy Catherine Awad Isabelle Baltazar  Cynthia Béchard Charles Boudreau Roxanne Bournival Frédérique Bouthot Arnaud Canneva Antoine Cantin-Lafleur Mélyse D. Chénier Charles-Oliver Chiasson Raphaël Coutu Gabriel Dorais Qian Du Minh-Thu Duong Clara Elchebly Layal El Raichani  Annie Galarneau Nicolas Goettel Marie-Kim Héraut Samantha Jarjour Caroline Lalonde Sylvain Lalonde Arianne Lareau Catherine Lemieux Anne-Marie Lévesque Juliana Lombardi Alexandre Mathieu Adrian Maxim  Julie Morin Thien-Nghi Philippe Nguy Eliott Nogues Camille Oostdyke Girouard Jean-François Patenaude-Monette Mariane Poitras Antoine Robichaud-Ducharme François Olivier Roy Audrey Séguin Félix Tompson-Désormeaux Andréanne Vincent Chun Dian Yang Wen Ting Yu