Pharmacy Microteaches

Congratulations for finding your way back for week 3's quiz offering. Only just over a minute to test your pharmacy knowledge!

What's the point of an ePMA pharmacist? What's an ePMA? Why is FHIR cool and interesting? What does DM+D stand for? If acronyms are your thing, this podcast might be right up your street. And we also talk about how electronic prescribing systems are overall a good thing, and what pharmacy can contribute to making them better.

The pilot quiz wasn't hated, so here's the first official one!

In honour of World Patient Safety Day, we're asking the question - what's the point of Medication Safety Officers? Why do we have them? What do they do? What problems are they trying to solve and how can they make your life better? How are they like Liam Neeson? It's only just over a 7 minute listen to find out!

Friday micro-quiz - pilot episode!

Back on the "what's the point of..." various bits of pharmacy, today we're asking what's the point of medicines management nurses? What do they do, and why can't pharmacists just do everything?

Keeping on with the "What's The Point Of..." topics, this week we've dared to step outside of a hospital (though not too far) and are having a look at what a virtual ward pharmacist does. What do they actually do, and how is it different to a non-virtual ward pharmacist?

In the break before we get the "What's the point of... Medicines Management Nurses" episode, we're going back for a refresher on evidence based medicine and looking at the hierarchy of evidence triangle thingy. What are the different types of studies? Which ones are better than others? What does better mean? How does any of this link to Matthew Paris's map of Britain, made around 1250? It'll only take 9 minutes to find out! Link to Matthew Paris's map here - https://historiacartarum.org/annotated-claudius-map/

It's finally here! The much anticipated (ok, maybe not anticipated - delayed may be a more accurate description) "what's the point of pharmacy procurement?" Why do we run out of medicines? Why do different areas of the country use different products? Why should this stuff be important to you? Only 8 minutes of your time to spend listening to this podcast to find out!

Welcome back! It's been a couple of weeks, but we're back with a new podcast now we've got a believable excuse to avoid talking about pharmacy procurement again. This time, we're going to talk about alpelisib, how it works, the problems you get into when you try to do indirect comparisons between different trials, and how data being confidential makes looking at stuff for yourself really difficult.