1. CREATING YOUR FUTURE IN PHARMACY
John E. Clark, PharmD, FASHP
Director, Post-graduate Residency Programs
Director, Experiential Education
University of South Florida | College of Pharmacy
Tampa, Florida

2. CREATING YOUR FUTURE Learning Objectives
Describe three principles to follow in preparing yourself for a future in pharmacy.
Identify and describe at least five critical principles associated with change
Recognize and discuss three area where there will be a demand for pharmacist’s services in the future
Describe at least five ways to assemble the necessary skills and knowledge for future change in pharmacy
List at least five factors that will determine what you will do as a pharmacist in the future

3. CREATING YOUR FUTURE Strive for Professional Excellence
Critical Principles in Preparing for your Future
Strive for Professional Excellence
Professional Involvement
Develop and Kindle the Fire Within

4. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 1. Change Universal, never-ending, complex
Will not abate, will affect the entire health care system
A permanent condition
Lead by an information revolution

5. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 1. Change
Must track and strive to understand change
Has enormous opportunities for success
Threats, when faced must be faced with a positive attitude and proper effort, can become opportunities.

6. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 2. Anticipate Demands for Service
Pharmacists demand will increase
Drug related illness will not abate
Drug treatment will not diminish
Drugs will not become less potent, less specific, less costly, or less risky

7. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 2. Anticipate Demands for Service
Pharmacists demand will increase
Patients treated with drugs will increase
Drugs that required specialized knowledge for administration will grow

8. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 2. Anticipate Demands for Service
Must understand the nature of the need
Less need for dispensing
Increase need managing drug therapies in all environments:
Home, acute, long-term, intermediate care

9. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
You are receiving a first rate education
Count on it, rely on it, use it
Your education today must serve as the foundation for your continued growth

10. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
You must not stagnate educationally
Educational stagnation will be your career’s kiss of death.
Begin to continue your education now

11. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
Subscribe to and read your professional journals
Cultivate the habit of reviewing the medical and pharmaceutical literature
Begin a pharmaceutical library

12. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
Share what you learn with your colleagues and other students
Try to learn something from your patients

13. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
Reinvest in your future after graduation for continuing payoffs to follow
Go back to school. Take some classes
Complete a residency
Enroll in a certificate program
Board Certification

14. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 3. Assemble Necessary Skills and Knowledge
Take advantage of every opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills that is consistent with your career goals.
“Practitioners of the future will be judged by what they know, not by what letters follow their name.”- Richard P. Penna

15. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 4. Professional Excellence is the Goal
Perfect a process for continual learning
Professionals practice and perfect the process for continual learning and decisive action until it become natural
Learn from successes and failure, past experiences, education, and mentors

16. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 4. Professional Excellence is the Goal
Perfect a process for continual learning
Cycle of Continual Learning
Learn
Analyze
Question
Act

17. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 4. Professional Excellence is the Goal
Harness Technology and Information Systems
Use and apply new technology and information systems
Take personal control and responsibility
It will shape your practice

18. CREATING YOUR FUTURE 4. Professional Excellence is the Goal
Become a Leader Extraordinaire
Emphasize collaboration, group thinking, teamwork, and continuous quality improvement
Be courageous, competent, principle-centered, and visionary
Be a designer, steward, teacher, clinician

19. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
5. Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
The public
Third-party payers
Pharmacy membership organizations
State boards
Pharmacy schools
Employers and managers
Individual pharmacists

20. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
The Public
You must educate the public about the contributions pharmacists make toward good health care
Become involved with the community and the media
Civic and religious organizations

21. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
Third-Party Payers
You must convince third-party payers that their interests are better served when pharmacists are involved in health care
Reimbursement of cognitive services
Pharmacoeconomic research

22. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
Pharmacy Membership Organizations
You must make pharmacy organizations more responsive to your professional needs
Education
Legislative
Networking
You must remain active in your profession
“You can’t save pharmacy if you don’t love the pharmacists. You can’t lead the pharmacists if you don’t serve pharmacy”

23. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
State Boards
You must demand that state boards of pharmacy lead you wisely into the future
Update practice act
Include visionary, competent board members

24. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
Pharmacy Schools
You must demand that our schools of pharmacy graduate pharmacists who are fully capable of managing drug therapy.
Quality training programs
Develop retooling programs for practicing pharmacists

25. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
Employers and Managers
You must have strong leadership at your practice sites
Must create a pharmacy for pharmacists
Equip pharmacists for future roles
Educate administrators

26. CREATING YOUR FUTURE
Factors That Determine what you will do in the future
Individual Pharmacists
Each of us must take charge of our own destinies and make the forces that shape our profession work for us
Stay in touch with your attitude and behaviors. They will take you from A to Z
Educate the public, third-party payers, administrators, legislators
Make state boards and organizations responsive

27. CREATING YOUR FUTURE SUMMARY – Develop and Kindle the Fire
Stand on Principles
Practicing with an uncompromising core of beliefs and principles always serves as the stable and primary source of the fire
Engage in Continual Learning
Continual learning and questioning provide a steady source of enthusiasm

28. CREATING YOUR FUTURE SUMMARY – Develop and Kindle the Fire
Study Heroes
Its critically important to have heroes. Pharmacy has many; study them well
Associate with Winners
Winners all have the fire within, and it is infectious. Associate with winners whenever possible

29. CREATING YOUR FUTURE SUMMARY – Develop and Kindle the Fire
Enjoy the Journey
Professional practice, like life, is a journey, not a destination, so you might as well have fun and enjoy the trip
Focus on Others
Caring for others becomes the ultimate source of professional and personal fulfillment. You must always seek to be patient-centered

30. CREATING YOUR FUTURE SUMMARY – Develop and Kindle the Fire Pass it On
The greatest way to keep and kindle the fire is to pass it on. Every great professional leader is invariably also a great teacher and mentor
"LEADership is not a position..... it's the ACTion you take."

31. CREATING YOUR FUTURE SUMMARY Pharmacy is not immune to change
Pharmacy is a proud and honorable profession
Remember why people need pharmacists
Remember it’s just a journey – enjoy the trip