There will be a giveaway for Five $584 NAPLEX and Graduation Survival Kit to last year pharmacy students. Please share this episode with them so they can get in to win. You don't have to buy anything to win. Here's the link: 

https://yourfinancialpharmacist.com/studentgiveaway

Kristen Butler is a Drake University P3 who took over the Pharmacy Leaders Podcast today to interview Tessa Heitkamp. Tessa is a P3 student at Drake University who recently completed her personal trainer certificate. She was driven to find a way to take her love for exercise and nutrition and supplement her future PharmD degree. Her future plans include assisting people to reach their health goals through preventive care, goal setting, and motivational interviewing.

Real estate has become more expensive and with the triple hit of student debt, underemployment, and a young family many are struggling to get their first home. There are innovative ways to solve this problem and begin the home buying journey.

I go over the odds of matching and how you can improve them in this episode. Please tag me with your thoughts on April 10th, 2019 Over 2,000 didn't match this year and 431 more applicants applied this year with only 229 new programs this year making it the hardest Pharmacy Residency Match in recent years. Good luck in Phase II. You can find the website here. 

https://natmatch.com/ashprmp/stats.html

Chintan Barot and Zachary Law talk about the PharmD / MBA and the advantages you get from having two degrees. Graduation actually happens in December of the P4 Year. Having two degrees brings business minded entrepreneurial students together and you can learn more here:

https://www.drake.edu/pharmacy/dualdegreesconcentrations/pharmdmba/

Pharmovation = Pharmacy + Innovation

Do you want more as a pharmacist - to help more patients and have a bigger career?  Pharmacists are the answer to the triple aim to improve quality, patient experience, and control costs through optimal medication use. Kimber Boothe shares how she's both created jobs and moved up through her career. You can reach her at:

Website link: https://www.kimberboothe.com

Program link: https://www.kimberboothe.com/pharmovation

Whether you need to or want to, the need for remote APPE experiences is here. Contact Ken Sternfeld if you're interested in working with physicians as part of his team. You can also contact me (Tony Guerra) if you're interested in online teaching and publishing to see if it's something that would make sense for us at my college. I'm always willing to try new things.  

Ken Sternfeld https://www.linkedin.com/in/rxvip/

Tony Guerra [email protected]

Mo Fredericks is a P3 student at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Currently pursuing his Master of Health Informatics degree, he's co-founder and Direct Past President of the first Toastmasters club at any College of Pharmacy in the nation, Pharmacy Communicators Association. Matt Busalacchi is a current P3 pharmacy student at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. He is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in genetics.

Kristen Butler is a P3 student at Drake University in Des Moines, IA that's interested in a hospital career. She's exploring Belize and Choctaw National Health Care Center in Oklahoma to gain a worldly perspective on pharmacy practice. We talk about how Drake's patient-centered curriculum helps students prepare for residency.

https://www.amazon.com/Residency-Interview-Questions-Answers-Rationales-ebook/dp/B07KNF83T8/

Caroline Jones, a Drake COP P1 who has been doing research for almost 2 years, interviews her professors, a PharmD and Ph.D. researcher and we see how you can get into research early in your pharmacy career. Dr. Lynn Kassel is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice in Acute Care. Dr. Abebe Mengesha is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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