Retail Pharmacy Intern

[lixx0843]

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Frankly, I have no retail pharmacy experience. Can anyone tell me what you need to do as a retail pharmacy intern? Thanks.

 

[crazybob]

Frankly, I have no retail pharmacy experience. Can anyone tell me what you need to do as a retail pharmacy intern? Thanks.

I have no experience either, but from what I hear,

• You counsel patients on their medications when the pharmacist is busy
• You answer any questions that patients/customers may have when they call. Sometimes if the pharmacist is a female and the intern is a male, the male patient will have no questions for the pharmacist, but a million questions for the male intern.
• Dispense medications like the pharm techs
• Anything else that the pharmacist or the pharmacy manager assigns for you to do.

 

[deleted205891]

At our store there's really no difference between techs and interns, besides the fact that I sometimes counsel on OTCs as an intern and the pharmacist lets me (but not the techs) take phoned-in Rxs.

 

[johnep34]

Seems very strange to me that someone would consider a career without an inkling of what it is about. When it was suggested that I became a pharmacist, I also had no notion. I went straight to the local chain (Boots) and asked what I could do. They referred me to the Area Manager who suggested I worked as a Saturday boy at the local branch. That was in 1950, and I worked part time and vacations all through college and that is where I did my intern. No real problem. Do you have Saturday/evening etc people in the US, or does everyone work full six days a week?
johnep

 

[ValeRx]

You do everything. Everything the techs do, everything the pharmacists do except verification.

You do the crap the pharmacist doesn't want/have time for, such as calling for copies, taking voicemail rx's and sometimes counseling patients. Only thing that sucks about being a 1st year is you don't know **** about the medications so you can't really counsel.

 

[Sparda29]

You do everything. Everything the techs do, everything the pharmacists do except verification.

You do the crap the pharmacist doesn't want/have time for, such as calling for copies, taking voicemail rx's and sometimes counseling patients. Only thing that sucks about being a 1st year is you don't know **** about the medications so you can't really counsel.

Actually, in NYS the pharmacy intern can verify medications, but most pharmacists are just too scared to let us do it.

 

[J ROD]

Seems very strange to me that someone would consider a career without an inkling of what it is about. When it was suggested that I became a pharmacist, I also had no notion. I went straight to the local chain (Boots) and asked what I could do. They referred me to the Area Manager who suggested I worked as a Saturday boy at the local branch. That was in 1950, and I worked part time and vacations all through college and that is where I did my intern. No real problem. Do you have Saturday/evening etc people in the US, or does everyone work full six days a week?
johnep

1950!!! 😱

 

[ValeRx]

1950!!! 😱

Back when they still went out in the woods searching for reagents to make their medicine.

 

[pharmwannebe2]

Actually, in NYS the pharmacy intern can verify medications, but most pharmacists are just too scared to let us do it.

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