A Meetup with the Walgreens District Manager - Part 2

- PharmCAS - It opens in June.  There are multiple deadlines for things such as LORs and when you need to submit your transcripts. It costs $150 for your first app, then $40 for each additional school you want it sent to.

  

- PCAT - Happens four times a year.  Usually around May, July, September, and December.

- Interview - You want to rehearse, but not over rehearse. Use bullet points so you can still keep it as a conversation. I can tell when someone I'm interviewing has been searching for a summer job. Make sure to answer key points but don't sound rehearsed. As an employer it doesn't sound good because communication is an important part of the job. And as a pharmacist you are an educator. You inform them how to use it, possible side effects and drug interactions.  That's your role.

Possible Questions:

- Why do you want to be a pharmacist?

- What areas of pharmacy interest you the most and why?

- What do you plan on doing withyour degree and why?

- What do you do for fun?

(Stephanie) UCSF, UoP, and UCSD, all asked similar questions. Do mock interviews. A lot of questions are to see what kind of person you are. How active you’ve been during your undergrad. They might ask hypothetical or ethics questions.  Take a look at other sample questions.  

Currently in Retail

- MTM Services - Medication Therapy Mangement.  It's about reviewing patient profile and medications and advising. Taking a look at all their prescriptions and checking if there is anything wrong, duplications, etc then making recommendations to their physician for dosing or other changes.

Often a pharmacist makes an appointment, they meet one on one, then run interventions with physician.  45 min to an hour process. Billing services to insurance company.

MTM is designed to:
Improve care

Enhance communication among patients and providers

Improve collaborations among providers

Optimize medication use

Improved patient outcomes

Core Elements:
Medication therapy review (MTR)
Personal med record (PMR)
Medication action plan (MAP)
Intervention and referral 
Document and follow up

- Immunization Advocacy – In the last several years, pharmacists have been able to give immunizations.  A lot of them deal with travel.  

Vaccines available at Walgreens:
Seasonl influenza
 H1N1
 Zoster
Typhoid fever
Hep B
Hep A
Pneumococal
Tet/dip/tertussis
Varicella
Poliomyelitis
Tet/dip
HPV
Japanese encephalitis
Yellow fever
Rabies
Meningitis

Community Health Fairs – Giving health care to people who may not have access and to education the community.

Brown Bag Day – a day where pharmacists will be there and people will bring their medications in a brown bag. Then have a MTM one on one with pharmacist advising them.

Outreach – To places like Senior Centers