The Age of the Pharmacy Technician Residency is Here

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

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Episode 5: An Interview about Cedars-Sanai Medical Center's Pharmacy Technician Residency Program

Margarita Fedorova, CPhT, discusses the pharmacy technician residency program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the first program of its kind nationally.

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Think you’re safe because you’ve “escaped retail pharmacy” and found safe haven in the 4 walls of a health system as a hospital pharmacist? Well think again, because pharm tech residency grads are gonna be coming soon for your jobs. This FURTHER devalues the profession of pharmacy as why would anyone want to go into $200k+ debt and spend 4-6 years of their time in school when they can work for 1-2 years after high school, apply for a pharm tech residency and quite frankly have what I would imagine to be a better job than an average hospital pharmacist?

Wish I could make this stuff up. I really do.

 

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Episode 5: An Interview about Cedars-Sanai Medical Center's Pharmacy Technician Residency Program

Margarita Fedorova, CPhT, discusses the pharmacy technician residency program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the first program of its kind nationally.

info.nhanow.com

PubMed

PubMed® comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Think you’re safe because you’ve “escaped retail pharmacy” and found safe haven in the 4 walls of a health system as a hospital pharmacist? Well think again, because pharm tech residency grads are gonna be coming soon for your jobs. This FURTHER devalues the profession of pharmacy as why would anyone want to go into $200k+ debt and spend 4-6 years of their time in school when they can work for 1-2 years after high school, apply for a pharm tech residency and quite frankly have what I would imagine to be a better job than an average hospital pharmacist?

Wish I could make this stuff up. I really do.

Man, it getting even worse for this profession. Will a BCPS save those hospital pharmacists that escaped retail?

 

[pencilandpen]

all you can do is invest and save aggressively, and hope that your investments grow to a sufficient amount to support you before the job changes catch up to you

 

[gwarm01]

Why are they still pretending that these initiatives are being made to allow pharmacists to practice at the top of their license? What the hell does that even mean? What are these pharmacists at Cedars Sinai doing that the rest of us can't do without these residency trained technicians?

 

[owlegrad]

I am confused how this is bad news for pharmacists. If anything it seems like bad news for technicians. Although they seem to be in pretty high demand to me anyway so I can't imagine this will catch on but I guess who knows.

 

[Hels2007]

I am confused how this is bad news for pharmacists. If anything it seems like bad news for technicians. Although they seem to be in pretty high demand to me anyway so I can't imagine this will catch on but I guess who knows.

The one concern I see is that this goes hand in hand with that hospital's "tech check tech" initiative. If that becomes the norm, it would eliminate a number of traditional hospital pharmacy jobs.

 

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

The one concern I see is that this goes hand in hand with that hospital's "tech check tech" initiative. If that becomes the norm, it would eliminate a number of traditional hospital pharmacy jobs.

Correct. If technicians can have the final checkoff on verifying orders, then every pharmacist whose role is tied to dispensing will be eliminated in the future.

You may think “well that’s great, it’ll free up those pharmacists to do more clinical work” — but the problem with that logic is that those pharmacists have nowhere to go because “clinical” jobs are not going to be growing as fast as the number of pharmacists being displaced, and “clinical” jobs are currently being held by the PGY-2 trained specialists so these new roles would have to entail “clinical” work not currently being done by the pharmacists who already round, etc.

 

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

Why are they still pretending that these initiatives are being made to allow pharmacists to practice at the top of their license? What the hell does that even mean? What are these pharmacists at Cedars Sinai doing that the rest of us can't do without these residency trained technicians?

I can see a research study entitled “Comparison of clinical outcomes among patients managed by hospital pharmacists versus residency-trained technicians” coming out in the future. When they find that outcomes are similar, many institutions will start citing this to eliminate pharmacist jobs.