Pharmacy

Three weeks

Interpretation of serum concentrations for common drugs, patient/pharmacist communications, overview of pharmacy care plans, pharmacy interventions, therapeutic workshops, toxicology training, documentation of pharmaceutical care plans and drug literature evaluation. 

Three weeks

Exposure and review of inventory control, narcotic control and packaging, unit dose packaging and processing, drug order review, cardstock, nonsterile manufacturing, parenteral nutrition, antineoplastic preparation, sterile manufacturing, and EPIC training. 

One week

Purchasing, interdepartmental communications, committees, personnel management, planning, finances, and project.

Three weeks

Physician/nurse/ward pharmacist communications, searches, drug literature evaluation, newsletters, retrieval systems, regional drug information service.

31 weeks

Each rotation is four weeks in duration unless otherwise indicated.

General Medicine (5 + 2 weeks), Infectious Diseases, and Intensive Care.

1. Cardiology OR Nephrology
2. Medical Oncology OR Hematology OR Hematology/Medical Day Care Unit OR Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation

Which may include:

Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Immunodeficiency clinic, Mental Health, Neonatal Intensive Care, Neurology, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Orthopedic surgery, Vascular surgery, Palliative Care (Bruyere Continuing Care), Montfort Hospital – Intensive Care, cardiology, mental health (if French speaking)

*The Teaching/Preceptorship Rotation takes place during one clinical service rotation which is extended from a four-week rotation to a five-week rotation. The pharmacy resident will be precepting a pharmacy student during this rotation.

*The Montfort resident will ideally spend 32 weeks of the program at the Hôpital Montfort, and the balance of their weeks at either campus of TOH. 

Eight weeks

Clinical research looking at specific or general drug use, efficacy or toxicity that exposes the resident to research methodology, evaluation of data and preparation of a written manuscript.  The project may also encompass a different area of hospital pharmacy practice, such as pharmacy administration or may include a systematic review of evidence. 

One week

In addition to attending an external pharmacy meeting, the resident routinely participates in the internal pharmacy educational program, grand medical rounds, clinical toxicology sessions, journal clubs, as well as other lectures and rounds related to drug therapy. 

52 weeks

The residents provide on-call service to The Ottawa Hospital General Campus, assisting 24 hours per day in the management of poisonings and drug toxicities presenting to the hospital.  The responsibility for the service is assigned among the residents.