Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship Program

The Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship Program FOSTERs the growth and development of future pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry professionals through the following key program features:

• Family of Leading Companies–Partners include several of the top 10 global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies.
• Outstanding Alumni Track Record–Over 500 alumni hold prominent positions at more than 100 different companies.
• Strong Network–Annually, more than 80 fellows develop valuable, lasting connections with each other, alumni, preceptors and faculty.
• The Pathway to Industry–Since 1984, the Rutgers program has been nationally recognized, trusted, and proven as the pathway to industry for pharmacists.
• Enhanced Career Path–Increasingly challenging assignments build depth of experience and enhance the potential for an accelerated career path.
• Rigorous Academic Component–Rutgers affiliation provides academic and professional development opportunities.

Unfortunately, this fellowship program is only for pharmacists. Someday, we'll see an industry fellowship program for physicians. Right? Maybe.

More than 80 Pharm.D.s participate in the Fellowship Program annually. Over 500 Fellows have successfully completed the Program to date, and are now pursuing influential and rewarding careers in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries both in the US and abroad.

http://pharmafellows.rutgers.edu/applicants/index.php

Career Services from Rutgers

Rutgers has a nice career service page that lists some helpful career resources for anyone who is currently looking for a job. You can find those resources here:

http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/

Here are some of my favorite links:

• Job Search Tip of the Week
• Preparing for Grad School
• Career-related Links

I didn't go to Rutgers, but several of my colleagues (and family members) studied at Rutgers. Speaking of Rutgers, you may be interested in learning more about the Rutgers Institute for Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowships if you're a pharmacy student.

Learn how to improve the business of HIV pharmaceutical management

There's a free webinar coming up titled, "Solutions for Managing HIV in the Payor Community." This is a webinar sponsored by BioScrip and all the speakers are BioScrip employees. So, I hope it will be an informative webinar and not simply an infomercial. This is NOT a certified CME/CE event, so I am not expecting that it will be fair balanced and free of any commercial bias. However, if you wish to learn more about HIV management, then you'll probably find it informative. Those working in the public health sector may find this interesting.

This webinar will address:

• Emerging trends in HIV patient demographics
• Patient Diagnosis, Treatment and Compliance Issues
• Government Initiatives and Guidelines
• HIV business environment: Pharma trends, Costs, and  Copay Issues
• Unique challenges for Specialty Pharmacy payors
• Solutions for HIV disease management

The presenters are:

• Elizabeth Engelhardt, RN, MSN, VP, Clinical Services and Product Development, BioScrip, Inc.
• Sara Deno, Pharm.D., AAHIVE (American Academy of HIV Medicine HIV Expert), Director of Pharmacy Services, BioScrip, Inc.
• Stephen Cichy, Executive Vice President, Managed Care Sales, Marketing and Product Development, BioScrip, Inc.

To learn more about this webinar, click here.

Summer Pharmacy Internships

Now that it's already March, the summer will be here very quickly! If you're in pharmacy and you're looking for a summer internship, you may want to take a look at this list from the Pharmacy Times:
http://careers.pharmacytimes.com/articles/B66094EC.asp

Hospital Pharmacy Performance Index by McKesson

McKesson has a new survey called the Hospital Pharmacy Performance Index. There's been a lot of talk about increasing physician performance, but there are significant needs to improve corporate performance at hospital and pharmacy levels. So how does your local hospital score? To find out, have your hospital take the online assessment here:
http://www.highperformancepharmacy.com/

The assessment is based on the 8 dimensions of pharmacy practice: leadership, medication preparation and delivery, patient care services, medication safety, medication use policy, financial performance, human resource management, and education.

ACPE

Since I'm a physician executive working in a medical, nursing, and pharmacy education company, in my world, ACPE means two very different things:

ACPE = American College of Physician Executives
http://www.acpe.org/

ACPE = Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
http://www.acpe-accredit.org/

The pharmacy CE (continuing education) programs we develop are certified for ACPE credit. The ACPE is the pharmacy equivalent of the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) for CME (continuing medical education) programs.