Pharmacy Residency Podcast: Residency Interviews and Advice

Another episode in the getting ready for ASHP Midyear series. If you want one-on-one editing / help with your letter of intent, it is a $75 one-time fee for the 2019-2020 residency season where I will help you with one letter for your first choice and up to two additional site letters. Contact Tony at aaguerra@dmacc.edu or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypharmd/

Another episode in the getting ready for ASHP Midyear series. If you want one-on-one editing / help with your letter of intent, it is a $75 one-time fee for the 2019-2020 residency season where I will help you with one letter for your first choice and up to two additional site letters. Contact Tony at aaguerra@dmacc.edu or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypharmd/

Another episode in the getting ready for ASHP Midyear series. If you want one-on-one editing / help with your letter of intent, it is a $75 one-time fee for the 2019-2020 residency season where I will help you with one letter for your first choice and up to two additional site letters. Contact Tony at aaguerra@dmacc.edu or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypharmd/

Another episode in the getting ready for ASHP Midyear series. If you want one-on-one editing / help with your letter of intent, it is a $75 one-time fee for the 2019-2020 residency season where I will help you with one letter for your first choice and up to two additional site letters. Contact Tony at aaguerra@dmacc.edu or on LinkedIn at Linked In Link

Brandon Dyson returns with a two part series on Residency Interview Questions. He is the founder of www.tldrpharmacy.com - which provides cheat sheets and easy to understand overviews of dense clinical topics. He is a clinical pharmacist in Austin, Texas and an Assistant Professor of pharmacology for the online nurse practitioner program at the Georgetown University School of Nursing. He can be reached at brandon@tldrpharmacy.com

Brandon Dyson returns with a two part series on Residency Interview Questions. He is the founder of www.tldrpharmacy.com - which provides cheat sheets and easy to understand overviews of dense clinical topics. He is board certified in pharmacotherapy. He can be reached at brandon@tldrpharmacy.com

I created a YouTube Playlist and website to help you through the residency season. You can find the links here: YouTube Residency Advice Playlist ResidencyHelp.com You can always get in touch with me, I'm TonyPharmD on LinkedIn

Knowing the questions your recommender will answer is key to giving them the information they need to get you a great recommendation, you can find those questions here at https://www.residencyhelp.com/

Some great tips from some friends on my Facebook account at TonyPharmD1, but here are some of the dos and don'ts for business cards for residency showcase. Again, if you want help with your Letter of Intent, it's $75 for the residency season email me at aaguerra@dmacc.edu 

Dalton Fabian joins me on the Pharmacy Residency Podcast to talk about his pivot from pursuing a residency to full-time employment as a data scientist in a major hospital. If you want to reach him directly, he gave me his email, it's dalton.s.fabian@gmail.com if you want to learn more about this path. 

The California Board of Pharmacy has made the decision to invalidate all scores of those who took the CPJE. We'll hear soon about what the details are, but it will be a crazy backlog for all people to apply at once, then deal with the others who were trying to take the test, and then secure this new test against cheating. Stay tuned. 

While the future of pharmacy is uncertain and our roles are evolving, one person was absolutely furious about certain private-sector /pharmacy school collaborations. I've gotten this link from enough people to state my opinion, but I loved working in a call center as a pharmacist, what are your opinions? I think it's not clear what "partnership" means. Here is the actual post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/dggfzz/another_pharmacy_school_decides_to_profit_off/

The Residency List opens November 1st and I go over some trends that might help you decide which residency sites to go after. Each year we see more students get residencies and more students NOT matching, I explain this paradox and more in this episode. Want to get a hold of me? aaguerra@dmacc.edu 

I just wanted to update everyone that on the ASHP side, there are waivers available so that a California pharmacy residency program will not be sanctioned for having residents who don't meet the 2/3 as a pharmacist requirement. I'm not sure if this provides protections on employment, but it is likely more than those that are not in residency who hoped to be licensed in California can expect. 

The move from PGY-1 to PGY-2 is very different than the PharmD to PGY-1. In this episode, Katelyn Corcoran, UIowa P4 interviews Drs. James Ray and Theodore Nguyen from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to outline both sides, the applicant's and residency program director's view on best practices to earn a selective PGY-2 opportunity. https://pharmacy.uiowa.edu/PMPC-residency and current resident: https://pharmacy.uiowa.edu/current-resident-pain-management-and-palliative-care