Knowing the questions your recommender will answer is key to giving them the information they need to get you a great recommendation, you can find those questions here at https://www.residencyhelp.com/

Some great tips from some friends on my Facebook account at TonyPharmD1, but here are some of the dos and don'ts for business cards for residency showcase. Again, if you want help with your Letter of Intent, it's $75 for the residency season email me at [email protected]

Dalton Fabian joins me on the Pharmacy Residency Podcast to talk about his pivot from pursuing a residency to full-time employment as a data scientist in a major hospital. If you want to reach him directly, he gave me his email, it's [email protected] if you want to learn more about this path.

The California Board of Pharmacy has made the decision to invalidate all scores of those who took the CPJE. We'll hear soon about what the details are, but it will be a crazy backlog for all people to apply at once, then deal with the others who were trying to take the test, and then secure this new test against cheating. Stay tuned.

While the future of pharmacy is uncertain and our roles are evolving, one person was absolutely furious about certain private-sector /pharmacy school collaborations. I've gotten this link from enough people to state my opinion, but I loved working in a call center as a pharmacist, what are your opinions? I think it's not clear what "partnership" means. Here is the actual post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/dggfzz/another_pharmacy_school_decides_to_profit_off/

The Residency List opens November 1st and I go over some trends that might help you decide which residency sites to go after. Each year we see more students get residencies and more students NOT matching, I explain this paradox and more in this episode. Want to get a hold of me? [email protected]

I just wanted to update everyone that on the ASHP side, there are waivers available so that a California pharmacy residency program will not be sanctioned for having residents who don't meet the 2/3 as a pharmacist requirement. I'm not sure if this provides protections on employment, but it is likely more than those that are not in residency who hoped to be licensed in California can expect.

The move from PGY-1 to PGY-2 is very different than the PharmD to PGY-1. In this episode, Katelyn Corcoran, UIowa P4 interviews Drs. James Ray and Theodore Nguyen from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to outline both sides, the applicant's and residency program director's view on best practices to earn a selective PGY-2 opportunity.

https://pharmacy.uiowa.edu/PMPC-residency

and current resident:

https://pharmacy.uiowa.edu/current-resident-pain-management-and-palliative-care

Free book on the Residency Letter of Intent here:

https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Residency-Letter-Intent-Interviewed-ebook/dp/B07Y29XGYQ/

Original YouTube video with sites with free resources can be found here on my TonyPharmD channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTxI_MRNTM

Mary Walton, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident at the University of Tennessee Medical Center is a New Practitioner Member and on the ASHP Commission on Affiliate Relations. She outlines what steps she took to earn a residency that matched with her career interests, along the way, she landed eight residency interviews and found time for family and friends

Free book Friday 9/27/2019: Strong Residency Letter of Intent https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Residency-Letter-Intent-Interviewed-ebook/dp/B07Y29XGYQ/