Pharmacy Careers Fall 2019

Pharmacy Times®’ Pharmacy School Strategic Alliance Partnership Program continues to expand beyond its more than 90 school partners.

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy is one of the oldest pharmacy schools in the country and is consistently ranked in the national top 10.

Orange County’s first pharmacy school, the Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP), graduated its second cohort of doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students in May 2019 and is now graduating masters and doctor of philosophy in pharmaceutical science (PhD) degree students.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting is approaching, and Pharmacy Times® will be on-site to provide comprehensive coverage from Las Vegas, Nevada. ASHP Midyear 2019 will take place December 8 to 12, 2019.

Pharmacy students are often told that there are many avenues to their pharmacy careers. This is especially true with the changing landscape of the profession.

The use of social media for information and career exploration was recently examined in a roundtable discussion hosted by Pharmacy Careers® with student pharmacist leaders from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, and Chicago College of Pharmacy at Midwestern University.

I recently went on a medical mission to Panajachel, Guatemala, as part of a patient care elective for Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before this journey I had known that this population has limited access to health care and resources to lead a healthy lifestyle by modern standards.

I am grateful to those who identified my burnout and supported me to make changes and reverse the syndrome.

As pharmacy practice evolves and the role of pharmacists continues to expand, the notion of working alongside other health care professionals to provide patient services is becoming more widely accepted as key to a pharmacist’s job.

For unemployed pharmacy graduates, the heartbreak of not finding work is real. They dedicated themselves to a demanding education, spent significant money on their schooling, and developed a plan to find work they love—only to discover that competition for jobs is fierce.

More than $45 million in health care expenditures is prevented, and that money saved, annually by Arizona’s 2 poison control centers. But what do they do?

During the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Annual Meeting in Fall 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland, 4 amazing pharmacists working in senior care pharmacy shared their career stories with a handful of students in pharmacy, as part of the Feldman Lecture.

When Marilyn Flores enrolled at the Touro College of Pharmacy in 2016, she expected classes on medical terminology and pharmacokinetics. But among the newer requirements at the New York, New York, school is a physical assessment class in the second year, as universities respond to the evolving role of retail pharmacists.

The Next-Generation Pharmacist® Awards is a national program that salutes pharmacy professionals who are defining the industry’s future. Pharmacy Times® and Parata Systems, cofounders of this prestigious program, now in its seventh year, recognize pharmacy leaders who embody the innovation and inspiration in pharmacy and the future vision of the profession.

Tight job market? Trying to figure out how you can get an edge? Reading up on your therapeutics and management guru books? Well, it turns out that none of those should be your focus—at least for getting a job.

Suicide rates in the United States increased in nearly every state between 1999 and 2016. More than half of the states had a more than 30% rise in suicides during that period. In 2016, nearly 45,000 lives were lost to suicide.