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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.

A sense of normalcy to help ease the suffering A sense of normalcy to help ease the suffering

A sense of normalcy to help ease the suffering

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"Tzeva Adom, Tzeva Adom” blares over the loud speakers across the whole city. Men, women, and children have 15 seconds to run to the nearest bomb shelter before a bomb hits. The ones that cannot make it to the shelters lie down on the ground, hands over their head, praying the missiles do not hit them. Fifteen seconds after the first “Tzeva Adom (Code Red)” warning, the missile goes off and smoke fills the city.  This was reality in Sderot, a small city in southern Israel, situated within half a mile of the Gaza Strip. Sderot, known as the “Bomb Shelter...
Finding “the answer” to your next interview questions Finding “the answer” to your next interview questions

Finding “the answer” to your next interview questions

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Summer brings time for relaxation, getting together with friends, and enjoying a break from school work. However, in pharmacy school, summer is a time when many of you may be embarking on either IPPEs or APPEs, or participating in an internship, pharmacy-related work, or research. As you read the article title again, you might be questioning...
A prescription for better policy A prescription for better policy

A prescription for better policy

When I got into pharmacy school at the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy in 2016, the last thing I imagined was getting...
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Policy on! Policy on!

Policy on!

For the past 2 years, pharmacy policy and advocacy have been my life. I dedicate my free time to the advancement of the pharmacy profession and...
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Five financial steps to take as a student pharmacist Five financial steps to take as a student pharmacist

Five financial steps to take as a student pharmacist

Pharmacy graduates today are facing the unprecedented financial situation of coming out of school with an average debt load greater than $160,000....
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The five-dollar bribe The five-dollar bribe

The five-dollar bribe

“A 6-year-old will do anything for $5,” my mom must have thought to herself as she slid the $5 bill across the kitchen table 19 years...
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Is there a new practitioner in the house? Is there a new practitioner in the house?

Is there a new practitioner in the house?

The APhA Student & New Practitioner Development Department strives to enhance the professional and personal development of student...
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An investment mentality

Recently, I had the opportunity to write an article for the February issue of Transitions, titled “Finding your best ‘yes’ as a new practitioner.” Shortly thereafter, I was asked to write a version for Student Pharmacist, since juggling responsibilities and opportunities is something that I struggled with far before adding the PharmD to the end of my name. My hope is to...

Connections and community

There are few experiences in my time as a student pharmacist that have had as forceful an impact on me as the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition. I could never pinpoint exactly what draws me back each year, until APhA President Nancy Alvarez, PharmD, provided her opening address in Nashville. APhA’s Annual Meetings are about connections and the community. I am reminded of the new...
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