Education

Pharmacy Residency Program

Type: General
Focus: Clinical Practice
Established in: 1967
# Positions: 3
App. deadline: as set by HPRFO
Starting date: approx.first Monday in July (start dates negotiable)
Est. stipend: $29,250 per annum
Benefits: Not applicable to temporary full time staff  
Vacation/holiday leave: 2 weeks  
Education/conference leave: 2 major pharmacy conferences with options for smaller conferences as applicable
Program highlights: Designed to develop self-directed practitioners with advanced skills in practice of pharmaceutical care. The program offers a wide variety of clinical rotations including specialty clinical rotations in multi-organ transplantation, oncology, neurosciences, cardiology, infectious disease, ambulatory HIV Clinic, intensive care and general medicine. Also exposes residents to hospital administration, integrated clinical-distributive pharmacy practice sites, drug information services and ambulatory practice sites. Residents must complete a major project during the residency year. Residents rotate through all three sites of the University Health Network based on the rotations.
Required Rotations:

• Pharmacy Practice (4 weeks)
• General Medicine – Clinical Rotation (4 weeks)
• Infectious Disease – Clinical Rotation (4 weeks)
• Critical Care – Clinical Rotation (4 weeks)
• Drug Information (4 weeks)
• TPN Clinical Rotation (1 week)
• Administration (2 x 1 week)
• Clinical Practice (3 weeks)
• Sterile Products (1 week)
• Project (8 weeks)

Elective Rotations:
-Residents have a choice of 3 elective rotations
-Elective Rotations are 4 weeks each in length  

• Inpatient Electives
• Multi-organ Transplant
• Cardiology
• Neurosciences
• Oncology- Solid Tumor
• Oncology- Haematology
• Emergency Medicine
• Ambulatory Electives
• Ambulatory HIV

• Ambulatory Family Practice
• Ambulatory Nephrology
• External Rotations (meeting criteria) may also be arranged by the resident

Minimum required credentials: B.Sc.Pharm.
ORGANIZATION
Type: A 3 site institution consisting of The Toronto General Hospital, The Toronto Western Hospital and The Princess Margaret Hospital. Key program groupings: advanced medicine & surgery; community and population health, heart & circulation; Krembil neurosciences program, multi-organ transplant, musculoskeletal health & arthritis; oncology& blood disorders
Number of beds: 744
Sites: Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital
Affiliation: University of Toronto
University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street
Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4
Residency Webpage: see hospital webpage: www.uhn.ca; UHN program outline available by contacting residency coordinators
Director: Emily Lap Sum Musing
Director of Pharmacy
emily.musing@uhn.on.ca

Contact: Emily Lap Sum Musing
Phone: (416) 340-3621
Fax: (416) 340-3685
Coordinators:
Michael Wong
michael.wong@uhn.on.ca
Olavo Fernandes
olavo.fernandes@uhn.on.ca