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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Hello, hello, again! Long time no see? I wasn't sure if I'll make it out of my first rotation, and I'm sure you were worried for me, too. However, here I am again, living to talk about completing my first rotation AND since I’m so behind on this blogging business, completing my second rotation as well! Time flies when you're having fun (or struggling like woah in my case), that's for sure!
I’m going to give you a little summary about how
my Peds ID rotation ended up. I was
talking about how scared I was for rotations to begin, and how nervous I was
about ID because it was never my forte, and unfortunately it still isn’t. That said, my learning curve during this
rotation was exponential! Really. I read
more articles about pediatric diseases and treatments than I had ever in my
life. I now know what it means to
“choose the right drugs for the right bug coverage,” and that “narrow therapy”
is always better than “broad therapy.”
These concepts, I kid you not, where some of the basic things we learned
in therapeutics, but it was a difficult for me to fully understand why. Once you can put a patient’s face to an
infection, though, things start to make more sense. I guess it just adds the urgency and
seriousness of what we’re dealing with.
It’s like any other concept. You
just have to go through the hands-on process to actually “get” what’s going
on.
I still am not ready to be an ID pharmacist
tomorrow; however, I have tons more respect for the ID team that I worked with
and my preceptor. Dr. Klein knows so
much! Everyone who was involved in this
rotation are really good at including the student in all the patient
discussions and makes you feel like you’re part of the group, well, because you
are. I do wish I had this rotation a
little bit later in my rotation series, just so I would be more prepared and
know what to expect, but what’s done is done, and I’m never looking back. Good-bye
Mott Hospital
And two days later… Hello B2!
I’ve graduated from pediatrics and moved on to the bigger and busier
hospital, UH. I spent most of my days in
the basement pharmacy, which was good because Michigan
My second rotation was Nontraditional –
Administration with Dr. Kelley. She’s
new, so not a lot of people have had the fantastic opportunity of meeting her
just yet. Of course, I am one of the
lucky ones who got to spend five whole weeks with her! I know, this is a moment where jealousy would
be an appropriate emotion. I’m telling
you right now, P3s and below, when it comes to ranking time, even if you don’t
think you’re interested in admin, rank Dr. Kelley high! I really, truly enjoyed working with her!
I’m sure you’re now super curious as to why it
was so great, right? What does a
pharmacist in administration do anyways?
Well, since I just finished my 5 weeks, I can answer that! Dr. Kelley and I were problem solvers,
brainstormers, new idea investigators, policy analyzers, ghost busters! You name, we did it. We went to a lot of meetings involving
different departments and different minds, all focusing on how to make patient
care at UMHS better. I had the pleasure
of meeting and working with so many BIG DEAL people!
Here are some projects I got to work on during my
5 weeks… 1. Looking at the feasibility
of offering the service to flavor medications at our outpatient pharmacy. 2.
Conducting a gap analysis on the hospital’s 340B policy and procedures. 3.
Creating surveys for a new software being implemented at Mott. 4.
Observing and writing a report on the current discharge process. 5.
Creating a flow chart. 6. Preparing handouts for various meetings. In addition, we had lots of discussions on
leadership, transitions of care, residencies, interviews, etc. It might sound overwhelming. I was overwhelmed for the first week or so,
just because we never had a standard day.
Everyday was different. Depending
on what kind of person you are, this can be good or bad. If you like structure and a set schedule,
this rotation might be tough, but if you like not knowing what your day’s going
to be like and living in the unknown, this rotation is pretty great and
exciting. I was in between the two. I like knowing the future to a certain
extent, so not knowing what kind of projects were going to pop up after each
meeting made me a little anxious. That
said, I get bored really easily, but during this rotation I was seldom
bored.
Some tips for those of you who have this rotation
in your future… Don’t worry! If I can make it through this, anyone
can! The earliest I went into rotation was
7am, usually 8am, so not super early.
Some days are long depending on how many meetings you have, but some
days you just get to work on your projects.
I did have it easy because my rotation was in July, and according to Dr.
Kelley, a lot of people like having fun in the summer and taking vacations,
which means lots of canceled meetings! I
was spoiled. So all I can say is, GOOD
LUCK! Hope your schedules aren’t too
busy… I tried keeping a to-do list of
just rotation projects, and giving myself vague deadlines so if I run into
problems, I can ask her whenever she seemed to have time. She’s pretty hands off, and let’s you figure
out a lot of things, so it’s a great opportunity to figure out how you work
independently. Oh, and I loved the fact
that I met so many great people! All my
projects involved different groups of people (ACP, 12W Mott, Business director,
financial director, Oncology…) so you have a myriad of chances to interact and
network with pharmacists and nurses and other staff and hear their
stories! How cool.
Yes, yes, I liked this rotation a lot. I don’t think I have the personality to be an
admin pharmacist, but I’m really glad I had this rotation! Thank you Dr. Kelley and everyone else in
B2! I’ll come back and visit J
I’m writing all this in transition to my third
rotation on the Megabus – Community Rotation – Specialty Pharmacy (HIV/AIDS) in
Chicago Chicago
Mkk, until next time! Hopefully you’ll hear from me sooner next
time.
Hope your summer is fun-filled!
yours truly,
ayumi
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