Pharmacy Residency Podcast: Residency Interviews and Advice

When choosing rotations, you want to make sure to get experience in clinical, teaching, research, service, and leadership. A virtual academic teaching rotation allows you to get the experience you need wherever you live. Need help with your letter of intent, contact me at tonythepharmacist@gmail.com or visit the free previews here: https://residency.teachable.com/p/extremeloi

How do you gain peace of mind regarding student loans and other aspects of your residency and career future. By working with an expert whether it's Letters of Intent with me or Student Loans with https://www.studentloanplanner.com/ peace of mind comes from knowing your team is the very best. Listen on. 

Breaking news out of ASHP who drastically cut rates to this year's Midyear meeting, real big implications for both future residents and residency programs making this possibly the biggest yet. Need help with your LOI, go to https://residency.teachable.com/p/extremeloi

7,000 pharmacy students are coming from colleges in the bottom half of the residency match rate metric, but you've put in 150 or 200 thousand dollars and want to be competitive for a residency. What do you do if your school couldn't do it for you? In this episode, I talk about becoming residency competitive even if you're classmates didn't push you as much as students would have at top residency matching schools. You can find the residency match stats here: https://www.residencyhelp.com/

Pharmacy Schools are down around another 20 percent over last year's admissions, but don't expect to see school closings. They are doing an excellent job diversifying their programs. In this episode, I talk about how this might affect future residents. Need help with your Letter of Intent, contact me at residencyhelp.com or https://residency.teachable.com/p/extremeloi

While retail is clearly a place that pharmacists are reducing their numbers, where are the opportunities for pharmacists trained in clinical and non-clinical work? The one place you can look is the BLS employment matrix for pharmacists, however, one place the BLS does NOT project significant pharmacist increase is physician's offices. Need help with your LOI, click here: https://residency.teachable.com/courses/

I wanted to talk a little bit about public health and getting that second degree. I think people misinterpret that second degree is just a number of classes that kind of overlap and just kind of an additional credential, but I've got Rachel Whitesitt on who was a P4 at the University of Iowa and she's actually using it as an expansion of whom she can help and to what level she can help them.

Welcome to the pharmacy residency podcast on the pharmacy podcast network. I have Rachel Whitesitt on with me and she is a P4 at the University of Iowa in her fifth week of this academic rotation. And what we want to do is talk to her a bit about her journey, but also she's had the time to get two degrees, a PharmD and MPH, as she's going through here and some advice on virtual rotations and community residency.

What are your odds to match? Your college, year of graduation, LOI, and recommendations form the bulk of those odds and you can find a free preview calculator to help you at this website: https://memorizing-pharmacology.teachable.com/p/extremeloi or http://extremeloi.com/ 

An audio version introducing a new website http://www.extremeloi.com where I teach you how to produce your best chance at a residency match. 

ASHP MidYear and the Showcase are going virtual, what does this mean? What skills do you need to develop? Should you have someone else with you or should you do the chat yourself? Lots of questions answered on this episode of the pharmacy residency podcast. https://www.residencyhelp.com/

Do you feel underappreciated? It's a lot more than hurt feelings and there's a lot you can do about it. Often, humility gets in the way of making sure you get the recommendation at the level that you should. There is a professional way to make sure your direct supervisor knows how hard you are working and what work you are doing. https://www.residencyhelp.com/

Filling in gaps is critical for getting a residency or position this year, if you need help with the teaching component, I can help, email me at tonythepharmacist@gmail.com but I talk about how to tell if you really need to make sure all five boxes: clinical, teaching, research, service and leadership are filled in before or after graduation. 

Every battle is won and lost before it's ever fought. December is not the time to find out you didn't have the experiences you need to successfully apply to a certain residency site. Let me help you with a pre-LOI Or diagnostic LOI so we can make sure you are strong in the big 5: clinical, service, teaching, research, and leadership and that they match your ideal site. tonythepharmacist@gmail.com 

My nurse friend Janine Kelbach has a writing opportunity for pharmacists to contact her directly at hello@thesavvyscribepodcast.com with the subject line "Pharmacist Writer" it's writing about a day in the life of a ______. Also, I give some last-minute MPJE tips to help you prepare.