Perspectives Pausing to Reflect and Debrief: Emotional Processing in the Face of Death 28 May 201910 Jun 2019 By Jennifer Ku, PharmD, BCPS As pharmacists, we are called upon to ensure the delivery of high quality, compassionate, patient-centered care. To do so, empathy is paramount. However, many pharmacy…
Perspectives An important lesson: Dealing with death 19 Feb 201912 Feb 2019 By H Andrew Wilsey, PharmD “Time of death… 08:43” I surveilled the room; syringe caps and sterile wrappings littered the floor, a ransacked code cart, with its drawers ajar. My…
Perspectives Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences: Helping Students Adjust to Learning Outside the Classroom 18 Dec 201814 Feb 2019 By Kaitlyn Grunder, 2019 PharmD Candidate Students often find excitement when didactic coursework ends and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs) begin. However, transitioning from the classroom to APPEs can be…
Perspectives Are Students Ready to Take on Industry Fellowships? 6 Nov 201814 Feb 2019 By Amee Mistry, PharmD, RPh and Jordan Haines, 2019 PharmD Candidate MCPHS University As a student pharmacist in my fourth professional year, I have started preparing for the stress of…
Teacher Reflections How to be a “Good” Pharmacy Student by Utilizing Deliberate Practice 26 Jun 201814 Feb 2019 By Riley D. Bowers, PharmD, BCPS Why am I writing this? What credibility do I have on this topic? I am not special. I am not an expert in the…
Perspectives Helping Students Find Their Passion: Sooner Rather Than Later 2 Jan 201814 Feb 2019 By Sierra George, PharmD Student Recently, my sister (an undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky), shadowed me for a day to experience “life as a student pharmacist.” She was…
Teacher Reflections Maximizing Your Team and Resources- An Experiential Education Perspective 31 Oct 201714 Feb 2019 by Misty Stutz, PharmD and Vinh Nguyen, PharmD “The student is on an experiential rotation…so the Office of Experiential Education (OEE) should handle that.” It’s difficult to count the number…
Teacher Reflections Building the Preceptor Pipeline: One Student at a Time 29 Aug 201714 Feb 2019 By Craig D. Cox, PharmD The 2016 Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education standards state students must be “team ready” and “practice ready” at graduation.1 I would argue students should also…
Perspectives Transforming Student Pharmacists into Accountable Practitioners – Part 2: Strategies 22 Aug 201714 Feb 2019 By Andrew Bzowyckyj, PharmD In my previous post in this series, I discussed some barriers that can prevent student pharmacists from developing their sense of accountability to the patient, and…
Teacher Reflections Transforming Student Pharmacists into Accountable Practitioners – Part 1: Barriers 15 Aug 201714 Feb 2019 By Andrew Bzowyckyj, PharmD Reflecting on my experiences as a preceptor and student pharmacist, one of the most difficult concepts to apprehend is what it truly means to be an…
