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From finding mentors to maintaining a balanced lifestyle, these insights will empower students to navigate the ever-evolving world of pharmacy.

Although a residency is beneficial for traditional career paths, a career can be more than working inside a pharmacy.

Collaborating with patient advocacy organizations offers pharmacy students a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in health care.

Innovative experiential learning can provide students with skills necessary to launch successful careers, keeping the pharmacy profession trusted by patients.

Curricula should require comprehensive training for providing contraceptive care, helping students perform duties confidently and competently.

Tune in to this episode of Pharmacy Focus: Student Edition to discover how innovative programs like Western University's 3.5-year pharmacy program are shaping the future of pharmacy education.

Pharmacy schools have also been seeing a change not only in education about personalized patient care and community-centered care.

Despite the economic and structural support, rural, poor, and underserved communities still have wide disparities in health outcomes.

The origins of American Pharmacists Month trace back to October 1925, when radio stations nationwide aired special programming for a week to spotlight the pharmacy profession.

The most persuasive reason for industry-academia collaboration is the many opportunities it opens for pharmacy students who may not have considered all the ways they can use their PharmD to serve the cause of humankind.

In this episode of Pharmacy Focus: Student Edition, we dive deep into the world of scholarship funds from Good Neighbor Pharmacy and Cencora, designed to support Black student pharmacists.

Oncology pharmacy is best learned in real time with real oncologists and real patients.

Pharmacists can address the needs of health care consumers earlier in the care journey by building interpersonal relationships and community trust, as well as by leading institutional and public policy reform.

It’s imperative to redefine the future of pharmacy to help ensure a robust pipeline of future pharmacists and create a culture that helps ensure pharmacists live their purpose and passion.

Sue Ojageer discusses the new coloring book she created to explore different pharmaceutical career paths.

To eliminate the existing stigma in the community, addiction must be recognized as a treatable condition rather than an immoral act.

Pharmacists must be involved in managing adverse effects and drug-drug interactions as psychedelic medicines collide with traditional psychiatric treatments.

Social media can be an excellent tool to provide education and build your own brand, but professionalism and appropriateness are paramount.

Some classes and curricula can contribute to preexisting stigmas about drugs and treatments for mental health.

Being observant and knowing how to ask screening questions are critical to identifying red flags.

Pharmacy students must understand the intricacies of culture and health, but they first need to be aware of their biases and prejudices.

Pharmacists serve as advocates to optimize patient pharmaceutical care, advance the profession, and positively influence the community.

Pharmacy benefit managers offer mentorship, training opportunities, and professional advancement beyond what's available in traditional pharmacy careers.

Networking and being prepared and educated are keys to succeeding as women in the pharmacy field.

Brianna Hawkins, MBA, a University of Tennessee Health Science Center doctor of pharmacy candidate, discusses oncology drug development and how students can start a career in this alternative path.