My Goals For A Career As A Phharmacist

From a very young age I knew that I wanted to get involved in the medical field in some kind of way. I did not know in what way exactly, but I knew I wanted to improve people’s health quality. It wasn’t until high school that I decide that pharmacy was the way to go. I enjoyed how the patients had easy access to care in a pharmacy compared to a doctor’s office. They could just walk in and ask for help without having to set up an appointment. After making this decision to become a pharmacist, I chose to go to STLCOP. During my first year of college I have established several goals to develop myself as the best pharmacist I can be. Obviously, one of my main goals is to graduate from STLCOP. This goal breaks down into several smaller goals. For …show more content…
In terms of the curriculum, the first three years seemed like basic education to me and I initially thought it wouldn’t improve my future career in any way. Though, as I look into it, many of the classes can improve me as a pharmacist. For example, I am going to have to take global heritage, which will provide me with information on many different cultures. This will teach me how social forces affect the different people of these cultures and allow me to provide better patient centered care as a result. Since I have a better understanding of the patient, I will have an easier time interacting with them. In the many biology and chemistry classes I have to take, I will be able to learn how drugs affect the body. I am already learning much of this in biology and it truly interests me. Science electives such as forensics will improve my knowledge on health, while literature electives would improve my communication skills and understanding of people. The subsequent professional years will develop my overall pharmacy skills. For example, I will learn many disease states, drug interactions, and proper patient care. Also there are many extra-curricular things that I mentioned before that I would like to do. For example, I would like to get involved in something like tutoring to further develop myself. On top of …show more content…
This goal is improving the health literacy of the world. There are way too many errors that result because a patient didn’t know how to take their medicine. This is a preventable thing that should never occur. I personally plan on doing everything I can to explain things to patients in as clear a way as possible. It would be terrible to know that someone hurt themselves because they didn’t really understand what I told them. Fixing this could range from doing something as small as informing many health care professionals to slow down and speak in more understandable language, to starting programs that improves the public’s understanding of medicine. It could also help to change the way instructions are physically written so that patients have a better understanding. If more people across are able to understand what their pharmacist is telling them, then a lot of medical mistakes can be