Selecting rotations for a job

[AdaraRose]

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Hi there,

My school match is going to run on the 23rd. After working in a hospital as an intern and thinking about this for a while, and I have decided that I don't think a residency is right for me. So, I want to use my P4 rotations as a way to network and land a job after school. What advice do grads have for getting a job after school? What type rotation schedule will best help me have a job when I finish? Should I try to do a lot of rotations with a single company or should I diversify? To be clear, the rotations through my school are 4 week rotations.

If this is already answered somewhere, please let me know, I didn't have luck finding a discussion on this topic.

 

[fewaopi]

I would diversify. It's perhaps the only opportunity you'll have to ever experience many different practice sites and see different things. Diversifying would also mean more employers and more potential openings down the line. Different settings would also give you more experience to talk about in interviews if you decide to go down a specific path.

Not sure how rotations work at your school but can you even do multiple at a single company? I can understand doing rotations at a single hospital site but not at a single company (like industry or chain retail?). I'm guessing you're thinking that rotating at one place will give you more experience and more time to stand out and make an impression, which is true I guess but if there's no opening you basically limited yourself from other potential opportunities. If it's chain retail, I guess it'd help with standing out to the DM but honestly I don't think it'd make a difference if you did 2 rotations at WAG, CVS, or RAD or one. It's best to diversify and not just in companies but also settings, imo.

 

[BenJammin]

Diversify, homie. Seriously. No matter what kind of pharmacy you decide on, doing rotations from all perspectives will allow you to say "I did a rotation at a X pharmacy, Y pharmacy, Z pharmacy and now I know I want to do X pharmacy".

 

[njac]

I will say this.

In school, I interned at the only teaching hospital in the area. In an attempt to diversify, I did my rotations at the surrounding community hospitals.

In the end, I regretted that choice. It depends what you want to do after school, but in my case I wanted to do academic clinical pharmacy, and I would've been better off rotating through the teaching hospital.