Pharmacy

DRx, 11 months ago in Welcome! Come in tell us about yourself!

Hey everyone!

I have been in pharmacy for almost 18 years! I started out as a CPhT, then went on to school and got my PharmD. I've been practicing now for 8 years!

I've worked in a couple different areas. Starting as a CPhT I worked in a federal IHS Facility, then as a PharmD I've been in LTC, Onco, and now work clinically in a trauma center.

I love the different cases I get to see on a day to day basis, the staff that I work with, and the freedom my job gives me to actually influence patient outcomes.

I have concerns now mostly about our new generation of pharmacists coming out of school, or rather the education these students are getting. It just doesn't seem to be up to par of what we had in the past decade. Then again I could just be getting older.

DRx, 11 months ago in What are your favorite resources for medical info? CE? Does your job pay or reimburse you for either?

Personally, I am a huge fan of UpToDate; however, my job gives me access Dynamed and strangely Lexicomp (owned by uptodate company), but not UpToDate itself. My partner works in an environment where they have access to UpToDate though, so I can bum off their login. They also get access to NCCN Guidelines

Outside of those, the other 2 sources I find myself using quite often is Stat Pearls through NIH and Dailymed trough NIH

Stat Pearls gives some amazing info at a quick glance, and Dailymed is great to look up inactive ingredients for any given NDC (really nice for Alpha-Gal patients, and patients with weird allergies like potato starch)