Pharmacy Careers Fall 2016

Now that the summer heat has started to yield to the crisp air of autumn and pharmacy schools have opened their doors for a new semester, pharmacy students at all levels of education are experiencing change.

It’s an exciting time for the profession of pharmacy, with diversity of opportunity continuing to grow dramatically as our health care system redesigns itself, slowly but surely moving from a system engineered for “sick care” encounters and mechanical throughput to one oriented toward health improvement and outcomes-based value.

The ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition gives pharmacy students the chance to learn more about postdoctoral training programs, including fellowship and residency opportunities.

The first days of pharmacy school can be exciting for students because they are embarking on a new chapter of their lives.

Like many things at a large state school, in order to find opportunities, you must seek them yourself.

Don’t leave behind your writing passion if you head to pharmacy school; instead, leverage it as a way to share with others what you’ve learned in school.

Differentiation has never been more critical for the individual pharmacist in any other point in history than it is right now.

It is estimated that more than four billion prescriptions are filled in pharmacies across the US on an annual basis.

The vast majority of graduating pharmacists are willingly destined for community pharmacy, which certainly has its rewards.

The current nationwide push for pharmacist provider status emphasizes an increasing need for advanced clinical training throughout the profession, and residency program curriculums are filling this need.

The pharmacy profession’s 2 major problems are misbranding and anonymity.