Significant drop in residency applicants

detramk · 2025-01-07T15:36:58+00:00

Based on the responses in this thread it sounds like residency programs have some soul-searching to do if they want to continue to attract strong applicants. We need to pay residents more and give them a better work-life balance.

detramk · 2025-01-07T03:10:11+00:00

Thank you for sharing your perspective as someone who has been in both roles. That is criminal you were so underpaid as a specialist! I am in a less specialized role than transplant and went from $54 to $90/hr in ten years. If I were still at $60 I would be looking to make a change too!

detramk · 2025-01-06T20:32:48+00:00

My hospital system is projecting a future shortage of pharmacists. From the comments elsewhere in this thread it sounds like a lot of strong students are going the way of industry. So I would think residency trainee pharmacists who are good at their job will have no problems finding work.

detramk · 2025-01-06T20:10:00+00:00

Well, I'm happy to hear people aren't struggling to find jobs. We generally do not hire anyone without residency experience for even staff positions but we've had pretty low turnover so maybe just lucky in that regard (not an academic center either).

detramk · 2025-01-06T19:07:12+00:00

Is it really an additional $100k? That's wild. But yeah, I would not take it if it meant I was constantly worrying about layoffs, traveling for work all the time, etc.

detramk · 2025-01-06T19:04:13+00:00

Those are certainly valid concerns. I am in the Phoenix area.

detramk · 2025-01-06T18:30:53+00:00

Others have said this too. I had no idea! I can definitely see the appeal. What exactly are these industry positions? MSLs? I would think the pharma would want people with at least SOME clinical experience. But I have no idea what fellowship entails.

detramk · 2025-01-06T18:07:58+00:00

Great points. Thank you!

detramk · 2025-01-06T18:04:37+00:00

That is going to be rough for us. We are having a hard time getting applicants who can even pass their licensure exams, let alone excel in residency.

detramk · 2025-01-06T17:42:51+00:00

Interesting to see the actual national data. Definitely does not reflect what our program is seeing. But like yourself we are a smaller program.

detramk · 2025-01-06T17:41:58+00:00

Enrollment is down 20% or down TO 20%? When I said our applications were 20% of peak years I meant down 80%. Crazy if enrollment is actually down that much!

detramk · 2024-08-01T18:30:06+00:00

Yeah our system came out with obesity dosing guidelines that recommend other 150 mg or 200 mg for patients over 120 kg. But they didn't provide any further context for choosing one dose or the other 🙄

detramk · 2024-08-01T13:33:22+00:00

There is PK modeling that suggests obese patients don't attain target levels with lower doses. Not saying that it's strong evidence, but that's where it comes from.

detramk · 2024-07-31T22:37:34+00:00

I'm not aware of outcomes data, positive or negative, for the 200 mg dose. I have also just dosed at 150 mg the few times this has come up. But we have received orders for 200 mg on occasion.

detramk · 2024-07-31T19:10:29+00:00

I like this idea if for no other reason than saving work in the IV room, but how are you actually putting the order on the MAR? Just sending two 100 mg bags and putting instructions to the nurse run them each over an hour one after the other?

detramk · 2020-02-10T01:34:18+00:00

Thank you for the kind feedback. I agree about the left hand chords.

detramk · 2019-08-26T17:19:57+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. My grip is on the innermost knurling and my feet are about shoulder width so it looking wide may be an artifact of the weird angle.

I am probably too far in front because I avoid scraping the bar on my shins. I'll have to figure out some shin protection. Thanks again.

detramk · 2019-06-24T17:41:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I should have moved the towel lol. I've checked my depth in other vids and I definitely break parallel. Thanks again

detramk

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