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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

Embrace Your Calling Embrace Your Calling

Embrace Your Calling

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“Why do you want to go to pharmacy school?” I remember first hearing those words as a pre-professional student pharmacist, sitting across from a faculty member, in the middle of my interview to transition to the professional part of the Rutgers PharmD program. It was a pretty standard question, and an answer that my upperclassmen friends had told me how not to screw up. “All you have to do is say you want to help people. That’s it!,” they told me. And that’s exactly what I did. But if I were to be honest in answering that question, my answer would have...
Your pharmacy “New Year” Your pharmacy “New Year”

Your pharmacy “New Year”

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I attended my first APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition during my second professional year as a student pharmacist in 2014. When I walked into the convention center in Orlando, FL, I was absolutely blown away! It was huge, magnificent, and I immediately started running into student pharmacists I had met before. There were pharmacists and...
Why I’m returning for my second annual meeting Why I’m returning for my second annual meeting

Why I’m returning for my second annual meeting

As I reflect on the 2017 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco, I can vividly recall experiencing a variety of emotions before,...
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What keeps me coming back What keeps me coming back

What keeps me coming back

While making travel arrangements to head to Nashville for APhA2018, I realized I would be attending my fifth APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition....
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Achieving and maintaining e-professionalism Achieving and maintaining e-professionalism

Achieving and maintaining e-professionalism

The term e-professionalism, or electronic professionalism, means to act and behave in a professional manner on electronic or digital platforms.1...
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Research: It’s within your reach Research: It’s within your reach

Research: It’s within your reach

I would like to talk about research. Many student pharmacists cringe when research is mentioned and will tell me they have no interest in pursuing...
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The value of ethics coursework The value of ethics coursework

The value of ethics coursework

Imagine you are a pharmacist working on an interdisciplinary team that is treating a patient for severe opioid dependence. The idea arises to...
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Things are getting hectic Things are getting hectic

Things are getting hectic

Welcome back as we journey through these last few months of pharmacy school. As APPE rotations are winding down and graduation is nearing, there...
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Pharmacogenomics in practice

As an undergraduate student in my genetics class, I pondered if the subject would actually have applications in pharmacy school. Between memorizing the stop codons and making sure not to confuse meiosis with mitosis, genetics was a challenging class. While I enjoyed it, I never made the connection to how it applied to pharmacy practice because it largely focused on inherit genetic conditions....

Exercise leadership during rotations

How many times have you tried to get in touch with a prescriber to sort out an issue regarding a prescription, only to be on the receiving end of the following phrase, “I am paging the physician right now for you?” Does this sound familiar to you? Well, if you are like me, then you would probably dread hearing those words because they usually mean that the issue will not be...
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