Residency program
About the Residency Program
The pharmacy residency program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a one-year general residency program designed to prepare qualified and knowledgeable hospital pharmacists to work in pediatric pharmacy. The approach to practice and the problem-solving skills developed during the program will be useful in any practice setting. Applicants must be graduates or prospective graduates of a Faculty of Pharmacy meeting the Standards of the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy in Canada. Applicants must also be eligible for licensure by a Canadian provincial licensing body. The program commences in July of each year and accepts two applicants.
The program is clinically oriented and is designed to expose the resident to a broad range of activities. Case presentations, projects, rounds, seminars, journal clubs and relevant work experiences provide the basis for the education and training components of the program.
Goals for the Resident
To develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to provide pharmaceutical care to patients.To understand the unique issues regarding current clinical pediatric pharmacy practice.To function effectively as part of the interdisciplinary health-care team in designing, recommending, monitoring and evaluating patient-specific pharmacotherapy for paediatric patients.To become proficient within the drug distribution system, drug information service, and therapeutic drug monitoring service.To develop an understanding of the principles of management in the hospital setting.To contribute to patient care and to the profession of pharmacy through the completion of a research project.
About the Rotations
Compulsory Rotations ( 27 weeks)
- Drug Distribution and Orientation (6 weeks)
- Inpatient drug distribution
- Intravenous admixtures
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Manufacturing
- Clinical investigational and special access drugs service
- Administration (3 weeks)
- Administrative aspects of the pharmacy department
- Departmental/interdepartmental meetings
- Budgets and purchasing
- Interview skills during the process of resident selection
- Drug Information (4 weeks)
- Evaluate, answer and document requests
- Adverse drug reaction reports
- Drug information bulletins
- Drug evaluations for the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (2 weeks)
- Application of clinical pharmacokinetic principles
- Follow individual patients
- Design and adjust dosage regimens
- Optimize drug therapy
- General Paediatrics (4 weeks)
- Overview of common pediatric conditions
- Issues in pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics
- Residency Project (up to 8 weeks)
- Selection of project
- Development of protocol
- Data analysis
- Presentation of project
- Toronto-area CSHP Residents’ Night
Elective Rotations (20 weeks)
Choose from the following:
- Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
- Haematology/Oncology (Haem/Onc) (4 weeks)
- Haem/Onc Clinic (2 weeks)
- Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) (4 weeks)
- Combined Haem/Onc and BMT (6 weeks)
- Paediatric Academic Multi-Organ Transplant (4 weeks)
- Paediatric Critical Care (4 weeks)
- Neonatal Intensive Care (4 weeks)
- Neurology Clinic (4 weeks)
- Cardiology (4 weeks)
- External rotation negotiable (variable)
For all Clinical Electives:
- Gain knowledge of paediatric pharmacology/ therapeutics
- Acquire experience in the evaluation of drug therapy
- Develop an understanding of the pharmacist in a clinical role using the pharmaceutical care model
Additional Activities
- University of Toronto Course (8 months) Enroll in or audit up to one full graduate course
- Joint Hospital Teaching Seminars (8 months) Presentations by pharmacists at downtown hospitals
- Conferences (up to 2 weeks) Choice of one out-of-town conference,(For example, ACCP, PPAG, CSHP-AGM, NPIDS)Professional Practice Conference (PPC) in Toronto Paediatrics for Pharmacists Conference (SickKids)
- Weekend Shifts (1 in 4 weekends) At current pharmacist wages
- Vacation (up to 2 weeks)
Applications available from the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto or electronically through www.cshp.ca under “Residency Program”
Beverley Hales
Director of Pharmacy, Residency Director
Physiotherapy
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto,
ON
M5G 1X8
Canada
Phone: 416-813-7639
email: beverley.hales@sickkids.ca
Sandra Bjelajac Mejia
Residency Coordinator
The Hospital for Sick Children
email: sandra.bjelajacmejia@sickkids.ca