For this year's first WSPA ACA podcast, we are doing a Reddit react style episode! We have PGY2 rep Celena Wilson hosting Drs. Levi Lancaster, Steven Elrod, and Samantha Korsak. Reddit is a place where people post anonymously and provides a chance to impart some real life thoughts and advice. Join us as we go through some Reddit stories and how current practicing pharmacists have their own honest, wholesome, and blunt takes on issues surrounding work life balance, job prospects, and other issues.

Tune in to the WSPA Ambulatory Care Academy podcast as Dr. Chase King explores a unique path to becoming an ambulatory care pharmacist. In this episode, Dr. King sits down with the insightful Dr. Sara McElroy, who shares her unique trajectory from a community pharmacy residency to making a direct impact on patient lives at HarmonyCares, where she brings ambulatory care services directly to the patients' home.

Join us for another episode of the Ambulatory Care Academy Podcast where we have an insightful discussion with Darell Connor, AmCA student representative, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate 2025 from Creighton University and Pharmacy Corporate Project Manager with the American Oncology Network. In this AmCA Podcast, Darell discusses the 505(b)2 drug approval pathways and its impacts. Drug approval has evolved, and how patients may eventually get medications has expanded beyond "FDA drug approval". Listen in as we converse with Darell and learn how the 505(b)2 pathway will impact ambulatory care pharmacy.

In this ACA podcast, resident representatives Jinha Park, PharmD and Olivia Hiskey, PharmD interview two pain specialty pharmacists. Drs. Corinne Dolan and Connor Rowan share how they got into providing pain and palliative services as amb care pharmacists at their institutions. Listen to this podcast to learn how they got into their specific position as well as their insight to the opportunity for helping patients treat pain in a variety of settings and patient poulations.

Population healh is defined as, "The health outcomes of a group of individuals, especially in addressing outcomes involving social determinants that impact health in patients (ie. behaviors, social, economic factors, etc.). In this Ambulatory Care Academy Podcast episode, we cover a new and growing practice space, Population Health. PGY1 representative, Olivia Hiskey, and PGY2 representative, Jinha Park, interview Drs. Rebecca West, Raina Ensign and Michael Lee on their roles and how their positions relates to population health. If you are interested in this field or plan on helping patients in ambulatory care or managed care, then this podcast is for you!

With the field of pharmacy evolving, community practice has started to adapt clinical services into its practice setting. New practice services also mean new opportunities for new graduates and residency opportunities. Providence Medical Group has a PGY-1 community-based pharmacy residency program in Monroe, WA focused on providing services for outpatient care. Ambulatory Care Academy PGY1 representative, Elizabeth Satterwhite, PharmD, interviews current residents Alicia Stark, PharmD and Vivian Lee, PharmD on their day to day life as residents in this program as well as considerations for what it means to be in a community pharmacy residency.

UW graduate, Ramon Garza, hosted a podcast discussion on the topic of “Learning in the Time of COVID-19.” The panel included two faculty members Dr. Lingtak-Nenader Chan and Dr. Leigh Ann Mike, as well as two fourth-year pharmacy students Michelle Nguyen and Stephanie Yu. The discussion included conversations about how faculty and students adjusted to teaching and learning virtually.

WSPA Ambulatory Care Academy (AmCA) Chair Ashley Van Allen, PharmD, BCACP hosts a discussion with ambulatory care pharmacists serving patients and billing as providers in Washington State.

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the WSPA Ambulatory Care Academy Podcast. If you want to learn more about the WSPA Ambulatory Care Academy, please go to: https://www.wsparx.org/page/Ambulatory

If you are looking for information on a specific question, here are the timestamps!
01:10 - Introductions
03:09 - How did you get into ambulatory care pharmacy, and why?
06:14 - Can you take us through a standard day in your practice?
11:06 - How does your position fit into the ambulatory care pharmacy field?
15:17 - Why would you recommend ambulatory care pharmacy?
16:27 - What are the main skills that are utilized in the ambulatory care setting?
19:10 - What was your most meaningful interaction?
21:35 - What are your thoughts on a PGY1 vs PGY2 residency for someone interested in ambulatory
care? Is a residency required?
25:40 - Any advice for students interested in pharmacy school? Those in pharmacy school who are interested in ambulatory care practice?
27:44 - Where do you think the field of ambulatory care pharmacy is headed in the future?