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Comment on The importance of lifelong learning by daniel

daniel — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:57:25 +0000

I, like many pharmacists I believe, will always direct a student to look up the answers themselves. I am not a walking Medline…ahem..I mean I encourage self-learning.
I will double check (is this a pharmacist thing) their answers and direct them as necessary.
And I wouldn’t dismiss Wikipedia as a reference source as well. The trick of the trade is to recognise worthy articles and not summarise everything under the wiki banner as crap (EBM skills there).
But I do agree, having students is a blast, they do jot our memory about how in one cold day we were learning this thing called cyclic AMP thingy…

Comment on The importance of lifelong learning by Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:50:45 +0000

I disagree with Joe. I encourage all students to ask questions and I enjoy answering. It is the job of a student to learn and a preceptor should attempt to educate. Plus we are all busy and do not have time to always sit down and discuss relevant topics so asking questions is the best way to get knowledge out of a busy rph.

Comment on Two months worth of reader email by J

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:58:55 +0000

Concerning “Mike’s” problem: Methadone only comes in 5,10, and 40mg tabs. Hard to believe that patient isn’t going to notice such a drastic change in directions, and I find it hard to believe that any doctor is going to write a script for 10mg 9 po QD or Q4-6. I’m calling BS on this one, and that’s excluding the entire issue of the responsibility falling on the pharmacist for whatever happens (unless this intern was repeatedly negligent, and he probably shouldn’t be a pharmacist anyway for the sake of everyone, if that’s the case.)

Also – glad you’re “back”. Looking forward to more rage..

Comment on The importance of lifelong learning by Joe

Joe — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:40:14 +0000

The student sounds like one of those obnoxious little pissants who already knows the answers to all of their own questions, but asks them anyway to show off what a brilliant ass kisser he is. No patient has ever asked me what class of antipyschotic Seroquel is, because none of them give a crap. The only question they ask is why their med isn’t ready and why it costs $3 when their other meds are $1.

I don’t actually think that the questions were posed like that at the time. Because, you’re right, that would be a little silly. Either she didn’t know the answers when she asked them (and subsequently looked them up before writing this) or had some sort of assignment where there were a number of questions like that and they were to ask the pharmacist (or preferably look up) as a way to get credit for the externship. Regardless, in the story she says “3rd year” of schooling, and since we don’t know how their curriculum is designed, she may not have reached those lectures yet…never know!

Honestly, though, what you are saying is a moot point for most of the readers of this site. I am really talking about using students on doctoral rotations as a learning tool. These kids will have had 5 (or more) years of schooling and maybe even some other challenging rotations. These kids will, hopefully, be pretty sharp on most things drugs. The questions the preceptor would ask them should be very challenging (much moreso than ‘what class is quetiapine’ and ‘why do topical corticosteroids thin out the skin’ — and if they don’t know they will look up the answer. If the student ask a questions of the preceptor and the preceptor doesn’t know, they will look up the answer. I *may* tell them I’m not 100% sure of the answer, but I wouldn’t continually show them ineptitude like that guy did. That would definitely open up a bag of worms, potential for a disrespect, and a bad site experience.

Comment on The importance of lifelong learning by Meanmick

Meanmick — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:41:22 +0000

Hahahah. Students. While I agree that having students is beneficial, I would love to see this gal after even one year in retail pharmacy. My bet is she will be back at uni doing med.

I wouldn’t blame her. The outlook on pharmacy is not so good in the States — wonder what it’s like in other countries? I wouldn’t let my son/daughter go to pharmacy school for anything right now — other than if I owned an already successful, un-challenged by WAG, independent pharmacy somewhere in a rural area. Then you have something to hand over…or maybe the only other reason would be making sure that they completed a two year residency, got board certified, and stepped into one of those roles — which are expanding in many areas and ways. But retail pharmacy? We could all of us be screwed soon…

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Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:42:28 +0000

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Comment on I have reached the big time by Phathead

Phathead — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:53 +0000

Nice! You should have signed it for her

Comment on Doctor shopping and insurance fraud and asshat patients — OH MY! by TheAngriestPharmacist

TheAngriestPharmacist — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:47:06 +0000

I think it might be spelled differently in Europe/down under…as it is just a made up brand name. But I may be wrong there.

Comment on Two months worth of reader email by Mellee

Mellee — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:17:51 +0000

Glad to see your back to blogging again :)

Comment on Doctor shopping and insurance fraud and asshat patients — OH MY! by jessica

jessica — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:27:32 +0000

supposed pharmacist doesnt know how to spell XANAX?

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