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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Denver restaurant week
Monday, February 27, 2012
Organ systems test today
I had coffee way too late again and I'm still awake at 5am.
Here's a couple of pictures of some of the pathways we are looking at for class.
Enjoy :)
Here's a couple of pictures of some of the pathways we are looking at for class.
Enjoy :)
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Optimizing Life and My Manifesto?
Today was a fairly different day.
I had drank coffee at 10 pm yesterday and end up staying on campus until 3 am finishing up a writing paper and studying for an upcoming test.
Despite this ultimate productivity, it threw this day for a loop. I woke up at 9 am, which was fine, and went to school to prepare for our 12pm Spanish class.
I was more excited about meeting today's pharmacy interviewees. I've given a couple of campus tours in the past, put today I volunteered to help with the group interview part. So after Spanish I jetted over to the Pharmacy Building and sat in on a 2 hour open question session with different rounds of interviewees, some of whom were preparing for the essay portion or the interview portion of Interview day. I felt really fortunate to participate because I think I was the only P1 there, there was two other P2s and the rest were P3s in the group of six pharmacy student consultants/evaluators. Fortunately, I was there with Wendy, a P3, who is our legislative liaison for NCPA and we had a constant dialogue and distinguishing different aspects of P1, P2, P3 life from academics to student life to housing and faculty. The candidates had a wide range of backgrounds, met one who was engaged and one that was still in her last year of undergrad. Some of the candidates were local, others hailed from Arizona, Wisconsin, California, and even Georgia.
At one point of the interview, I was mistaken as an interviewee by other females, which means I either look young? or really nervous?....I'm thinking the first, since most of the conversations were really laid back. Luckily, some of interviewees had Dr. Hoody, one of our current Skills professor, and the former associate dean /career development course director, also known for his infamous bowtie, Dr. Rice.
When you hear your self speak out and answer some of the questions from the candidates, it's funny how you didn't have a set auto-generated answer. Rather, I felt I answered the questions with authenticity and passion for our curriculum, faculty, chapter organizations on campus and even our wonderful student life.
After, the candidates reconvened upstairs on the 4th floor of the Pharmacy Building. This kind of gave me chills, because less than 1 year ago, I was in their same exact shoes.
It was at the end of February, towards the last week of the month, that I had interviewed here after going to Maryland's interview. I never knew that at that point, I would be here today. Last year, we were in the older Pharmacy building and I swore I was still jet lagged from all the interview traveling. I was even scared after the interview that I called Jhonny because I freaked out that I missed the back page of the essay interview portion. Knowing that, I was resigned to receiving the infamous "We thank you for your interest in our Pharm.D. program, and despite your qualifications and interests, we are unfortunately unable to offer your a position in next years Pharmacy class." It was one year ago that I was resolved to either an accelerated program in Maryland or the windy Chi-city for grad school.
So today was both a refreshing and confirming experience. It was crazy to see the time lapse since last year. I was able to work with a small group of 5 interviewees observing. The faculty member assigned to the group and later asking the questions was Dr. Trujillo.
Through the 40 minutes group activity, my role was to observe the interactions amongst the group and assess different factors (which is confidential to the interview process), so I'm unfortunately unable to share with you guys.
With that, I think the questions they asked made me realize the opportunities and resources I have here in Colorado with the campus, the faculty, the research and the student life, and city life of Denver. I think today as I walked back to the apartment, I realized I think I need to start balancing or taking the initiative of doing research on campus and creating a more diverse portfolio so that I can get a residency in California! YAY!
Hopefully, 3 years from today, I'll be looking at interview offers for Residency programs. Cross your fingers.
It is with these interesting details and reflections that reading another blog post inspired me to think about my own personal manifesto. Who knows maybe there will be a Nicole Dimaano Manifesto??
Until my next post,
- Nicole
I had drank coffee at 10 pm yesterday and end up staying on campus until 3 am finishing up a writing paper and studying for an upcoming test.
Despite this ultimate productivity, it threw this day for a loop. I woke up at 9 am, which was fine, and went to school to prepare for our 12pm Spanish class.
I was more excited about meeting today's pharmacy interviewees. I've given a couple of campus tours in the past, put today I volunteered to help with the group interview part. So after Spanish I jetted over to the Pharmacy Building and sat in on a 2 hour open question session with different rounds of interviewees, some of whom were preparing for the essay portion or the interview portion of Interview day. I felt really fortunate to participate because I think I was the only P1 there, there was two other P2s and the rest were P3s in the group of six pharmacy student consultants/evaluators. Fortunately, I was there with Wendy, a P3, who is our legislative liaison for NCPA and we had a constant dialogue and distinguishing different aspects of P1, P2, P3 life from academics to student life to housing and faculty. The candidates had a wide range of backgrounds, met one who was engaged and one that was still in her last year of undergrad. Some of the candidates were local, others hailed from Arizona, Wisconsin, California, and even Georgia.
At one point of the interview, I was mistaken as an interviewee by other females, which means I either look young? or really nervous?....I'm thinking the first, since most of the conversations were really laid back. Luckily, some of interviewees had Dr. Hoody, one of our current Skills professor, and the former associate dean /career development course director, also known for his infamous bowtie, Dr. Rice.
When you hear your self speak out and answer some of the questions from the candidates, it's funny how you didn't have a set auto-generated answer. Rather, I felt I answered the questions with authenticity and passion for our curriculum, faculty, chapter organizations on campus and even our wonderful student life.
After, the candidates reconvened upstairs on the 4th floor of the Pharmacy Building. This kind of gave me chills, because less than 1 year ago, I was in their same exact shoes.
It was at the end of February, towards the last week of the month, that I had interviewed here after going to Maryland's interview. I never knew that at that point, I would be here today. Last year, we were in the older Pharmacy building and I swore I was still jet lagged from all the interview traveling. I was even scared after the interview that I called Jhonny because I freaked out that I missed the back page of the essay interview portion. Knowing that, I was resigned to receiving the infamous "We thank you for your interest in our Pharm.D. program, and despite your qualifications and interests, we are unfortunately unable to offer your a position in next years Pharmacy class." It was one year ago that I was resolved to either an accelerated program in Maryland or the windy Chi-city for grad school.
So today was both a refreshing and confirming experience. It was crazy to see the time lapse since last year. I was able to work with a small group of 5 interviewees observing. The faculty member assigned to the group and later asking the questions was Dr. Trujillo.
Through the 40 minutes group activity, my role was to observe the interactions amongst the group and assess different factors (which is confidential to the interview process), so I'm unfortunately unable to share with you guys.
With that, I think the questions they asked made me realize the opportunities and resources I have here in Colorado with the campus, the faculty, the research and the student life, and city life of Denver. I think today as I walked back to the apartment, I realized I think I need to start balancing or taking the initiative of doing research on campus and creating a more diverse portfolio so that I can get a residency in California! YAY!
Hopefully, 3 years from today, I'll be looking at interview offers for Residency programs. Cross your fingers.
It is with these interesting details and reflections that reading another blog post inspired me to think about my own personal manifesto. Who knows maybe there will be a Nicole Dimaano Manifesto??
Until my next post,
- Nicole
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Hollywood and Drugs
I have blogged about Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson in the past. More recently, Whitney Houston's passing has raised speculation and questions to how such a young singer could have died so young.
Here is current news reports from Internet sources on the causes
Here is current news reports from Internet sources on the causes
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Big Business and Pharmacy
Today we had Nancy Lamb, RPh speak to our management class about Business Opportunities in Consulting Pharmacy. She shared more information about the recent rejection of Omnicare's offer for PharMerica
Link
Link
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Technology and Drugs
Today, our dean and her P4 rotation student hosted a Colorado Sunset Legislation Review. In essence, Colorado is a little special in that the Board of Pharmacy and Colorado Pharmacy Society work together to create or modify new legislation. Of the 13 or 14 proposed Sunset points, 2 of them involved drug dispensing specifically for pets and fall under the veterinary side. Along with that, 2 positions of the State Board of Pharmacy would be added that would have a veterinarian advisory role. Yes, this is purely an addendum, but this shows how involved this legislative process is.
Other current legislation involves electronic prescriptions accepted from doctors, and reclassifying pharmacists as "healthcare" providers. As of right now, we are not considered healthcare providers according to state legislation, since we were first called druggists and never reclassified. Other more modern legislation include intern and pharmacy supervision, practice development hours. Our dean along with the other Pharmacy school, Regis University, has lobbied for legislation that would allow for other healthcare providers to work with students in pharmacy practice. The intention of this legislation was to help fulfill requirements of accreditation that mandate interprofessional work and team setting. (Yes, I did think of how IPE would fit into this category). It does make sense that nurses can be as educated as other health professionals to teach vaccines to pharmacy students and so forth. THis was the logic that was presented by our dean and her rotating student.
In contrast, other legislation are not as logical such as, allowing the unlicensed healthcare providers (doctors, pharmacists,nurses) to practice without a license for 30 days. Yes, this could work for newly graduating health professionals, but then there is a loophole. For example, what would stop someone from saying that they were going to get a license, and never do. In that case, that 30 day lapse becomes 30 days of increased risk of different forms of malpractice.
As far as innovation, a biotech company is looking to implement technological legislation that slowly integrate fingerscans, retinascans for i.d. for patients when filling out prescriptions. LIkewise, providers would also be responsible for registering and completing these same finger/retina scans. Far fetched, but I think it does move in an interesting direction.
REgardless, this goes with my theme of technology and drugs. Aside from administrative contributions, technology can leave a positive impact to how we treat our patients and patient compliance.
Read more about it here: Wall Street Journal
Other current legislation involves electronic prescriptions accepted from doctors, and reclassifying pharmacists as "healthcare" providers. As of right now, we are not considered healthcare providers according to state legislation, since we were first called druggists and never reclassified. Other more modern legislation include intern and pharmacy supervision, practice development hours. Our dean along with the other Pharmacy school, Regis University, has lobbied for legislation that would allow for other healthcare providers to work with students in pharmacy practice. The intention of this legislation was to help fulfill requirements of accreditation that mandate interprofessional work and team setting. (Yes, I did think of how IPE would fit into this category). It does make sense that nurses can be as educated as other health professionals to teach vaccines to pharmacy students and so forth. THis was the logic that was presented by our dean and her rotating student.
In contrast, other legislation are not as logical such as, allowing the unlicensed healthcare providers (doctors, pharmacists,nurses) to practice without a license for 30 days. Yes, this could work for newly graduating health professionals, but then there is a loophole. For example, what would stop someone from saying that they were going to get a license, and never do. In that case, that 30 day lapse becomes 30 days of increased risk of different forms of malpractice.
As far as innovation, a biotech company is looking to implement technological legislation that slowly integrate fingerscans, retinascans for i.d. for patients when filling out prescriptions. LIkewise, providers would also be responsible for registering and completing these same finger/retina scans. Far fetched, but I think it does move in an interesting direction.
REgardless, this goes with my theme of technology and drugs. Aside from administrative contributions, technology can leave a positive impact to how we treat our patients and patient compliance.
Read more about it here: Wall Street Journal
Monday, February 13, 2012
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
MCI or Mild Cognitive Impairment is one of the indicative steps of dementia in older patient populations. Over the Christmas break, our experiential assignment is to put together a Dementia patient pamphlet. Last week, I was able to walk the OTC aisles of Safeway Pharmacy with another classmate who had a different topic and discuss with everyday people information on dementia.
So with this, I hope that readers and healthcare providers are able to share this relationship between caloric intake and cognitive impairment.
Calories Memory Loss Huffington Post
Another Article
So with this, I hope that readers and healthcare providers are able to share this relationship between caloric intake and cognitive impairment.
Calories Memory Loss Huffington Post
Another Article
Methotrexate Shortage as seen on NBC Nightly News
Article Source here
I think it caught my eye more just because we have been practicing with asceptic technique in the horizontal lab hoods. So seeing this news report rang a bell. What do you think? Should the FDA intervene?
I think it caught my eye more just because we have been practicing with asceptic technique in the horizontal lab hoods. So seeing this news report rang a bell. What do you think? Should the FDA intervene?
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