The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Student Pharmacists

LIFE

Pharmacy school is a time of personal and professional growth. To be successful, you need to have a vision for your future.

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Haley Barnes with classmates
No longer in the Zoom waiting room: A first year's reflection on virtual pharmacy school

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My excitement never waned as I looked forward to the fall of 2020, but as COVID-19 entered Tarrant County in early March of 2020, it became clear that my first year of pharmacy school would not be

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Making the most of a second chance

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After graduating from a 2-year program and earning my veterinary technician license, I wanted to continue my education in the hope of pursuing pharmaceutical research and working with laboratory an

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Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

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A huge conflict I faced during my APPE rotations was the fear that I was “not enough” as a student pharmacist. Did I deserve that award? Am I qualified enough for this position?

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Soak up the knowledge

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During the summer of 2019, I drove 30 minutes both ways to my first-year professional student institutional IPPE.

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Bladecki at APhA headquarters
The value of versatility

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I joined the Army National Guard while I was still in high school and deployed to Iraq at the end of 2004, the same year I graduated.

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The miracle of solid organ transplantation

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According to DonateLife.net, 22 people die waiting for an organ transplant each day, and one person is added to the organ transplant waiting list every 10 minutes.

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Elisha Robinson with family.
Becoming a pharmacist while raising a young family

LIFE By Elisha Robinson 

The moment I had been anticipating for months was finally here! It was March 2018, and in my hand I held an envelope from the Purdue University College of Pharmacy.

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Nam Le flexes muscles during child cancer awareness event.
Learning resilience is not a heavy lift

LIFE By Nam Le

A quick Google search will define resilience as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” Resilience has been a buzzword in recent years, but the term unquestionably applies t

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Olhauson in APhA virtual meeting
Persevering, and finding peace, in the new normal

LIFE: By Morgan Olhausen

As I prepared to leave campus for spring break, I had unknowingly sat in my last didactic course and would spend the rest of my last academic semester of pharmacy school completely online.

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How much is your car costing you?

LIFE: By Timothy Ulbrich, PharmD

As a student pharmacist, you’re likely dreaming of that pharmacist paycheck that will someday soon start appearing in your bank account.

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Embrace the transition

LIFE: BY Scott Sexton, PharmD

Structure. Community. Exhaustion. Perhaps these are words that have defined the last several years of your life during pharmacy school.

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A year of firsts

LIFE: By Savannah Cunningham

My first year of pharmacy school was one of several firsts for me.

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Grayson Layton with family on beach.
Top five to survive

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Beginning your journey in pharmacy school brings about a multitude of changes that require you to shake up your world and step outside of your norm.

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Katarena Nalbandian in the kitchen baking with her grandmother.
My grandmother, Alzheimer's, and pharmacy school

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During several different periods in my life, one constant has been my grandmother. While Alzheimer’s may have changed her, nothing will ever alter the impact she has made on me and my future.

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Fun that won’t break the bank

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You all know about the importance of self-care and preventing burnout. New research proves you can’t deny the importance of taking care of yourself.

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The zen of bullet journaling

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Did you know that studies have shown disorganization leads to stress? I bet even without having done a lit search on the topic you know from experience that it’s true. I know I have.

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Students practicing mindful meditation
Be mindful about mindfulness

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The pharmacy profession prides itself on having an evidence-based approach to practice in order to improve medication adherence.

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Dickerson behind his drum set
A lifetime of obstacles: Lessons in perseverance

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How do you decide what outfit to wear each day? Do you consider what matches or what’s clean? Probably.

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How my pharmacy curiosity was awakened

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It was a cold, rainy evening when I visited my friend Cindy at the hospital. Her room was dark with a tiny strip of light coming in from the slightly open door.

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