Options in Community Pharmacy

[Albo]

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Hello All,

I have to say I have been enjoying more and more being a community pharmacy intern. The interaction and help you give people is of great satisfaction however I hate all the technicalities and metrics associated with being a community pharmacist. The chain I work for has less than normal working condition and the enjoinment you can get as a community pharmacy is drained from all the technical standards that most retail chain put on their pharmacist. This summer I am part of a performance improvement project focusing in inventory management and reducing inventory losses by a significant margin as part of my summer corporate internship. I really love what i am doing right now, I like community pharmacy as a whole but i dont want to be a retail pharmacist. What are my options? How does doing a community residency help for the advancement of my career? I know Meijers and Kroger have clinical pharmacist coordinators for their community pharmacist? Anyone know what the requirements are for those jobs?

 

[rph3664]

If you love retail pharmacy but hate metrics, you might want to work at an independent pharmacy, or a smaller chain.

 

[EBT12]

Hello All,

How does doing a community residency help for the advancement of my career? I know Meijers and Kroger have clinical pharmacist coordinators for their community pharmacist? Anyone know what the requirements are for those jobs?

Doing a community pharmacy residency would prepare you for a clinical pharmacist coordinator position. Alternatively, a community pharmacy residency could prepare you for a faculty position or a PGY2 in ambulatory care. Different programs definitely emphasize different areas.

 

[Tsap]

Hello All,

I have to say I have been enjoying more and more being a community pharmacy intern. The interaction and help you give people is of great satisfaction however I hate all the technicalities and metrics associated with being a community pharmacist. The chain I work for has less than normal working condition and the enjoinment you can get as a community pharmacy is drained from all the technical standards that most retail chain put on their pharmacist. This summer I am part of a performance improvement project focusing in inventory management and reducing inventory losses by a significant margin as part of my summer corporate internship. I really love what i am doing right now, I like community pharmacy as a whole but i dont want to be a retail pharmacist. What are my options? How does doing a community residency help for the advancement of my career? I know Meijers and Kroger have clinical pharmacist coordinators for their community pharmacist? Anyone know what the requirements are for those jobs?

a friend of mine opened 5 pharmacies; you don't need to do a residency. Having a good business sense is what you need.

 

[Albo]

Thanks for the replies but I am not interested in independent pharmacist right now. I want to do something outside of the box for retail. I have the resume to apply for a community residencies but I have heard mixed review about them. From being pointless to opening a lot of opportunities for you. I am also not interested in academia.

 

[bacillus1]

Thanks for the replies but I am not interested in independent pharmacist right now. I want to do something outside of the box for retail. I have the resume to apply for a community residencies but I have heard mixed review about them. From being pointless to opening a lot of opportunities for you. I am also not interested in academia.

Retail companies very rarely fund 100% clinical positions. Therefore if you want a clinical retail position, you're about 95% out of luck if you don't want to do academia.
The only clinical retail position that I've seen not associated with academia was a CVS position where you're a clinical pharmacist at a call center.

 

[Albo]

Can you elaborate about this CVS position. Was the pharmacist always on the phone answering patient calls and what state was it in.

 

[knight on horse]

a friend of mine opened 5 pharmacies; you don't need to do a residency. Having a good business sense is what you need.

Recently or 10 years ago?

 

[bacillus1]

Can you elaborate about this CVS position. Was the pharmacist always on the phone answering patient calls and what state was it in.

It's a position in PA, and I think I saw another one somewhere out West. From the posting, it seems like the pharmacist is always on the phone, and it said that the main function was "to place outbound calls, with a high likelihood of inbound calls". So I imagine it's something like "hello, this is CVS and we want to talk to you about managing your diabetes, please call us back". I don't know the exact details of the position, as all I saw was a posting for it.

 

[rph3664]

Albo, what kind of job are you looking for, anyway? I strongly suspect that you are pursuing a job description that simply doesn't exist.