Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

MAY 11, 2023

to improve pharmacy practice and patient care. Prior to the course, students learn about pharmacy regulations, associations, advocacy, and independent community settings in Minnesota and the United States so that they can compare and contrast with the systems in Portugal.

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PQA

APRIL 29, 2025

I still oversee program development today but am now focused on health care innovation and collaborating with payers, pharmaceutical companies, providers, and patients to bring these holistic solutions to market. I have worked in both the payer and provider segments, including hospital, mail, and specialty pharmacy.

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The Nontraditional Pharmacist

OCTOBER 14, 2019

[00:02:25] I have to say that my pharmacy school experience at least for the first year and a half was extremely rough and kind of discouraging for me because I came in wanting to do direct patient care and then I quickly realized a few months into my first year that that was not the route for me.

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The Physician Pharmacist

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I was reading research papers, and it was this new class of calcium channel blockers, which was just a number so that the ACE inhibitors didn't even exist at the time I was a pharmacy student. It made my life easier, and it made patient care so much better. And there's still a lot of room for improvement.

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