The clinical rotation provides the Pharmacy Resident with training and experience in the various aspects of maternal-fetal and neonatal pharmacotherapy. The rotation is based in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the high-risk antepartum (AP) unit, the labour and delivery unit (LDR) and the post-partum unit (Mom and Babe). The NICU has 22 beds, the high-risk antepartum unit has 8 beds, LDR has 2 operational rooms, 8 delivery rooms and 2 post anaesthetic recovery rooms and Mom and Babe has 28 beds. The rotation time will be divided among these units in a flexible manner based on the resident’s interest.

The inter-professional perinatal team includes but not limited to: neonatologists, paediatricians, and obstetricians, family doctors with obstetric privilege, midwives, registered nurses, respiratory therapists, dietician, social workers, public health nurses and the clinical pharmacy specialist. Multidisciplinary students and residents are regular participants in the perinatal units, and members of the perinatal team are eager to provide teaching in their respective areas of expertise.

The majority of rotation time is spent on direct patient care activities, including but not limited to active participation in patient care rounds. The remainder of the time is comprised of working on assigned projects and/or presentations and participating in scheduled therapeutic discussions. The resident is provided with informal feedback on a daily basis and is formally evaluated at the rotation midpoint and at the end of rotation.