Let's Talk Tribes in Pharmacy & Medicine for 2020

It has never been easier to find your tribe in healthcare, pharmacy, and medicine! The variety of associations & organizations over the past 20 years has exploded in healthcare...and that's a good thing, as we become more diverse and treat a widely diverse population of patients with different needs. Just look at pharmacy alone! We can practice in pretty much ANY setting now, including NO SETTING - we can literally go where the patient is and help them, even outside the corner drug store!

In fact, as we reach the new decade, I wanted to interrupt my usualness of the podcast, The Edutainer, to focus on just a handful of these tribes. If you, like me, shop for which associations or tribes to be a part of for the coming year NOW.

Why is it important to join a tribe, association or organization? Well, many reasons!

1. Namely - our profession is changing so fast that it is giving all of us whiplash, so we need to be on watch for our patients and our profession.
2. Second, we have to stick together - if we have rogue factions, we're never going to win anything--if we stick together, we can advocate for better care for our patients or better professional lifestyle and practice for us.
3. Third - networking: it's important to get around and be around your peeps on occasion.
4. It's a great place to shop for career development ideas.

So, I'm going to collect the episodes on podcasts from this miniseries, right here, right now, so all of us can review them in one place. (I'm a big fan of a solid collection, BTW!) Here we go!

Podcast Miniseries at The Edutainer on Tribes, Associations & Orgs in Pharmacy & Medicine, 4Q19

First, there were 3 previous episodes to this podcast miniseries that were published earlier than 4Q that are still germane to this series, they include:

DiMe, or the Digital Medicine Society - a 4th of July chat with Jennifer Goldsack!

Next up, Jeff Sventek, Executive Director of the Aerospace Medical Association chats with us.

Dr. Sara Rogers, Co-founder and Director of Clinical Affairs breaks down safety in the American Society of Pharmacovigilance in September, 2019.

And now on to the 4Q miniseries!

We begin with Episode 1 - Chatting with Melani Kane about the International Society of Cannabis Pharmacists.

Dr. Jerrica Dodd breaks down 2 places to get info on pharmacy - 1. PharmaSis Magazine and 2. A new tribe: Women in Pharmacy, What's Next?

Episode 3 focuses on Functional Medicine with Dr. Lauren Castle of the Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance.

Episode 4 focuses on the Pharmaceutical Industry with the Industry Pharmacists Organization founded by Jim Alexander.

Episode 5 of the series discusses what's going on in schools of pharmacy with the academic pharmacy tribe, Dr. Lucinda Maine of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

We reach out to the state pharmacy associations with episode 6 and our chat with President of the Indiana Pharmacists Association, Dr. Denise Fields.

Episode 7 takes me over to the day job at ASCP, with the senior care pharmacists at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists with CEO, Chad Worz. We discuss senior care pharmacy

In Episode 8, we chat with Dr. Suzy Soliman, founder of the Pharmacist Moms!

For Episode 9, we get into the world of oncology pharmacy with Dr. Lisa Holle, Treasurer of ISOPP.

In episode 10, we return to the state association side with our friend of the podcast, Dr. Kate Gainer of the Iowa Pharmacy Association.

And there's more to come yet - believe it or not!

Keep checking back to see more episodes added. More important, find your tribe and jump right in - we need you now more than ever!

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Erin L. Albert is a pharmacist, podcaster, and senior director of education at ASCP. Opinions expressed by Erin are hers alone, and are not necessarily those shared by her employers and/or companies.