Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board

Director:
Dr. Antoinette Duronio, PharmD, BCPS
Phone: 519-973-4411 ext. 33949

Coordinator/Contact: 
Dr. Lidia Yrigoyen-Dacruz, PharmD, BCPS
Phone: 519-254-5577 ext. 33166
Fax: 519-985-2676

For information, please visit the Windsor Regional Hospital website at: www.wrh.on.ca

Program

Type: General Hospital Residency

Focus: General Hospital Practice-based

Established In: 2010

Number of Positions: 2

Application Deadline: As per PRAMS

Start Date: July or September 2025

Estimated Stipend: $18.60 per hour ($36,400 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):

• A program specific cover letter (maximum word count 250) outlining the factors that led you to decide to apply to Windsor Regional hospital residency program.

Benefits: No

Vacation/Holiday Leave: 2 weeks

Education/Conference Leave: 1 conference (CSHP or other as determined by program)

Program Highlights: The pharmacy residency program will be based on the application of current knowledge and the search of new knowledge in actual patient care by providing evidence-based, patient-centered pharmaceutical care to hospitalized patients. The program will be designed to provide the resident with professional, clinical and administration experience and training through exposure to a broad range of activities in various areas of hospital pharmacy. Following the required rotations, the resident will choose elective rotations based on interest. Our pharmacists are a diverse group represented by B.Sc or Pharm D. graduates and/or residency-trained pharmacists who practice as Clinical Pharmacists and as Clinical Pharmacy Specialists (ICU, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, HIV and nephrology).

Minimum Required Credentials: BScPhm, registered as a pharmacy intern or Part A pharmacist with the Ontario College of Pharmacists.

Core/Required Rotations:

• General medicine (4 weeks)
• Internal medicine (4 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
• Critical care (4 weeks)
• Teaching (2 weeks)
• Research/ Major Project (longitudinal
• Leadership (longitudinal)
• Consolidation (4 weeks)

Elective Rotations:

• Ambulatory (Nephrology, HIV, Diabetes)
• Nephrology (Inpatient)
• Oncology (Inpatient)
• Pediatrics
• Cardiology
• Emergency Medicine

Organization

Windsor Regional Hospital is a two site campus comprised of the Ouellette site and Metropolitan site. Ouellette site is a 305 bed acute care community setting. Medical services include: general medicine and surgery, cardiology, internal medicine (medical student teaching unit), neurology, nephrology, critical care and mental health.

Metropolitan campus operates 290 beds. Medical services include: family birthing centre, pediatrics (medical student teaching unit), oncology, critical care, surgery, and medicine

Affiliation: University of Waterloo

Graduates

2022-2023	Aya Akrawi Andrew Le
2021-2022	Alex Dipierdomenico Kendra Hewlett
2020-2021	John Iovino Janie Co
2019-2020	Nathan Ing Gia Panic
2018-2019	Alexandra Andreo Elsa Purivatra
2017-2018	Anish Krishnan Trishu Vather
2016-2017	Afshin Azami Stephanie Di Vecchia
2015-2016	Anna Chan Linda Ou
2014-2015	Jessica Karam Michelle Joseph
2013-2014	Julia Cahill Rita Shek
2012-2013	Marta Malkinska Danting (Anna) Guo
2011-2012	Heather Foley Melanie Sharon
2010-2011	Stephanie Armata Bronwyn Tolmie