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Are you required to do a residency for hospital pharmacy employment? What is the advantage of doing a residency?
Originally posted by Kunsan
Pharmacist is a profession about providing drugs to people and not clinical stuff. If someone wanted to go clinical, they should have tried harder to become a Medical Doctor.
I'm kind of unsure about the role of the clinical pharmacist as well. It seems like the pathophysiology and diagnosing of illness is what the docs are trained to do. My naive understanding is that clinical pharmacists would assist in the choice of drug therapy for patients. However, unless the pharmacists have the same access to the patients and the same level of understanding that the docs do, how can they be expected to make that contribution? Maybe in cerain circumstances (anti-coagulation, diabetes, blood-pressure) they can have the access and understanding it would take, but I don't know how great of an unmet service this provides.
What is the difference between clinical pharmacy and hospital pharmacy?
absolutely nothing.
any pharmacist, mail order, long term care, retail, hospital etc....if your job encompasses the review of medication order, the drugs ordered in said order, and the dispensing of medications to patients.....hate to break it to you....you're "clinical"
so there's no point of doing a clinical residency? we might as well just get our pharmD and apply for a job in a hospital?
so there's no point of doing a clinical residency? we might as well just get our pharmD and apply for a job in a hospital?
If you're going into retail...forget residency.
But most of the cool job openenings with upward mobility requires a residency not because of a "residency completed" paper but because residency does make a difference to a pharmacist in health system.
MBA or MHA is another nice route.
I personally feel that pharmacy residency has no benefit. Pharmacist is a profession about providing drugs to people and not clinical stuff. If someone wanted to go clinical, they should have tried harder to become a Medical Doctor. Anyways, no real benefit according to some of my buddies.. You do pretty mcuh the same thing as all other hospital pharmacist and they call it a residency. Stupid I think and I think it is way off the scope of pharmacy practice.....![]()
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