No, I didn't call up the Walgreen District Manager myself, this was an event set up to the Pre-Pharmacy Association. Gotta get that outta the way. The event was last week, but my focus on my psy lit review (I got a 44/45 by the way. That was an extremely quick turn around on grading by the professor.), got me to put it off until now.
Short Bio: Rhonda went to pharmacy school in school in St. Louis Missouri. Worked in various settings, but mainly in retail. She started at Walgreens as an intern which led to work there as a pharmacist.
Along with the SF district manager was a UCSF student pharmacist, Stephanie. She's finishing up her final year, and is doing a six week management internship with Rhonda. (I assume that means she's in the Health Policy and Management pathway. Something I'm definitely interested in.)
Well... for the beginning of the talk, there was a lot of repeated info. I'm not going to type it all out this time, but here's some quick points: Have good time management (prioritize, to do lists, etc.), talk to your advisors and do your research on the schools to plan out the pre-requisites you need, ask for good letter of recommendations, and make yourself well-rounded.
Now for some useful new info, or at least not frequently repeated info:
ACPE. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. The site to go to check the accreditation status on new schools. Just click on "Students" and then "Which programs are accredited?" They check on the curriculum, faculty, and staff, to make sure it meets the standards. (Tuoro has reached full status, while Northstate is still in candidate status.)
A way to get experience is to become involved with a national pharmacy organization or a pre-pharmacy club, or mentoring program. There is also job shadowing and employment at a pharmacy. Here's a list of orgs to check out:
ASHP, AMCP ASCP APhA,
American society of health system pharmacists
Academy of Managed Care pharmacy
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
American Pharmacists Assocation
In UCSF, they’ll intro you to these orgs, and you’ll likely have to join most of these. Unfortunately I didn't write down exactly what role pre-pharmacy students can have in these, but she mentioned something brief. There are of course events that they throw that you can participate in.
Now for student groups:
CSHP, CAPSLEAD, NCPA, SNPhA, LAPS
California Society of Health System Pharmacists
California Pharmacy Student Leadership
National Community Pharmacists Association
Student National Pharmaceutical Association
Latino Association of Pharmacy Students
And we'll close out Part 1 with some suggested resources. Some are repeats, but I'm still putting them here just to show what she thought was important to share:
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