Career in Pharmacy
It’s an area with few drug stores
What is a “pharmacy desert”?
This MCPHS summer program allows students to work closely with faculty mentors to design and conduct a real research project.
What is the SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) Program?
This MCPHS ceremony, held at the start of PY1, symbolizes a student’s entrance into the professional phase of the PharmD program.
What is the White Coat Ceremony?
Prepares IV fluids and care for in-patients
What is a hospital pharmacist?
Rounds on medical teams in a hospital
What is a clinical pharmacist?
It’s the list of drugs covered by an insurance plan
What is a formulary?
This MCPHS office helps students with resumes, interviews, networking, and accessing resources and opportunity
What is Career Services?
These early experiential rotations give PharmD students real-world practice in community and institutional pharmacy settings before APPEs.
What are IPPE (introductory pharmacy practice experience) rotations?
This is the federal agency responsible for approving medications for safety and efficacy in the United States.
What is the FDA?
What is a nuclear pharmacist?
It’s abbreviated as a “PBM”
What is a pharmacy benefit manager?
List AT LEAST 4 On-Campus Student Leadership
Peer Mentor
Resident Assistant
CAB Executive Board
Peer Tutor / SI Instructor / PAL
SGA Executive Board
These interviews, conducted by School of Pharmacy faculty during pre-professional year 2, assess both writing proficiency and oral communication before students enter the professional phase.
What are the Progression Interviews?
This nationwide pharmacy chain recently declared bankruptcy
What is Rite Aid?
Provides pharmaceutical care to nursing home patients
What is a long-term care pharmacist
It’s the money returned to a PBM and insurer by a drug manufacturer
What is a rebate?
Elective course you need to take before PY1
HUM, BEH, SSC
This role involves a pharmacy student working under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist to gain on-the-job experience that may lead to a future career.
What is a Pharmacy Intern?
This organization represents pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and is known for the Oath of a Pharmacist.
What is APhA (American Pharmacists Association)?
Prepares creams, capsules and other formulations not commercially available
What is a compounding pharmacist?
It’s one of the three major PBMs
What is CVS Caremark, Express Scripts or OptumRx
This MCPHS office orients students, assists with rotation assignments, and serves as their main school contact while they are at rotation sites.
What is the Office of Experiential Education?
This part of the pharmacy curriculum takes place outside the classroom in real practice settings and involves supervised interactions with real patients.
What is Experiential Education?
This number (in hours) is the minimum national requirement of Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) hours set by ACPE before entering APPEs.
What is 300 hours?