Talk show: In Our Element

Host: Hailey

Pharmacist/Professor: Kenzie

Pharmacy student: Andrew

Do interviews combined 

*Intro to the show and guests

*Talk about pharmacy and what it is

*Ask the audience for questions 

*Interview guests

*Pharm jokes

*Background music

*Fake laughing

Questions:

  1. What does a typical day, week or year look like for you? K
    1. Veterinarian Pharmacy:
    2. 8am-8pm during the weekdays
    3. 8am-5pm during the weekends
    4. Review/fill prescriptions
    5. Consulted when something new comes up
    6. Deal with 34,000 animals a year
    7. Dealing with drug stability and drug compatibility
    8. Drug relation to animal metabolism
    9. A lot of math
  2. What do you enjoy most about your job, what is most challenging? K
    1. Most enjoy getting the animals the help they need, and being able to cure them. Also, you get to learn so much from the medicine aspect to how it can cure the animal.
    2. The challenges in the field include that it is a very small field of pharmacy so you need to be willing to go where the job is. 
  3. What are all the different types of pharmacy that one could go into? K
    1. Veterinarian 
    2. Retail (rite aid, walgreens, cvs)
    3. Clinical (hospital)
    4. Nuclear
    5. Government
    6. Ambulatory
    7. Trama 
    8. Doctors office
    9. All the specialties 
  4. What advice would you give someone looking to get into the school of pharmacy? A 
    1. Lot of work
    2. Find letters of recommendation
    3. Make sure to keep your GPA up and only take necessary courses
    4. Try to work and volunteer 
    5. Make sure you enjoy what you are doing
  5. Why did you want to become a pharmacist? A
    1. The amount of various industries that pharmacy has to offer
    2. You can work in any state
    3. The hours are great 
    4. You also get to help people of course
  6. What kind of education, training, or background does this job require? K
  1. To become a pharmacist, you need to have earned your Pharm.D.
  2. Typical schooling is 6 years.
  3. Earn a passing score on the Pharmacy Admission College Test (PCAT)
  4. Coursework in pharmacy and pre-pharmacy includes chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, and physiology.
  5. Additionally, PharmD students must complete a series of rotations in a variety of clinical and pharmaceutical settings.
  6. Can you name some of the qualities that would benefit you as a pharmacist? And is there anything you would like to improve on? A
  1. Good memory- drug nomenclature, side effects, and interactions between pills is a sometimes-life-and-death prerequisite for the job
  2. Detail Oriented- we must stay on top of every minute detail of a patient or risk overlooking how an existing condition of medication might have disastrous side-effects.
  3. Kind- 1) People often see a pharmacist after receiving bad news – to one extent or another – from a doctor and  2) People show up at a pharmacy to receive medication for a medical condition they are battling
  4. Interpersonal skills- Pharmacists often have to juggle between doctors who don’t like to be questioned (see point 2), and frustrated patients who are upset at having to wait for their prescriptions
  5. What are you going to do if you don’t get to a Pharmacy School? A
    1. Many other majors that require the same courses as pharmacy
    2. With the heavy chem and bio background a chem or bio major could be foreseeable 
    3. You can always apply again next time or apply to different schools

Game:

Now it is time for the ultimate test. I have acquired some unmarked pills and am going to see if Dr. Charest can identify and explain them. 

Synthroid (levothyroxine), 21.5 million. (Hormone It can treat hypothyroidism. It can also treat an enlarged thyroid gland and thyroid cancer.)

Crestor (rosuvastatin), 21.4 million. (Statin It can treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This may reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and related health conditions.)

Ventolin HFA (albuterol), 18.2 million. (Bronchodilator It can treat or prevent bronchospasm.)

Nexium (esomeprazole), 15.2 million. (Proton-pump inhibitor It can treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). It can also lower the risk of bleeding after endoscopy in patients with ulcers.)

Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine), 10.4 million. (Stimulant It can treat ADHD and binge-eating disorder.)

Lyrica (pregabalin), 10.0 million. (Nerve pain medication It can treat nerve and muscle pain, including fibromyalgia. It can also treat seizures.)

Props:

*White lab coat

*Pills (tic tacs)

*Text book

*Labels for Pills

Outline: (First Copy)

Host: (starts off the show and introduces herself and the guests)

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to this week’s episode of “In Our Element.” I am your Host Hailey Smith and today we will be learning all about Pharmacists and the required schooling to become one. Pharmaceutical texts date back all the way to 2100 BCE, to now, 2019, where pharmacists are one of the most needed health specialists with a very large range of specialties within the profession. 

Today we have two very special guests, Dr. Charest and Mr. Andrew Straffin!

Pharmacist: (Introduces herself) 

Hello, as you have heard, my name is Dr. Charest. I am a veterinarian pharmacist working a medical center in Massachusetts. I did my schooling at the University of New England and while learning about the different fields I could go into, Veterinarian pharmacy was the choice for me. Other than what I do for my job, I also teach a class about medicine at the college of pharmacy. With me today is one of my students, and I’ll let him introduce himself.

Pharmacy student: (Introduces himself)

Host: (introduces questions from the audience-goes back and forth for each question with the guests)

Alrighty! So happy to have you both here. To start the night off we are going to have the audience send in questions they have about the profession or yourselves. 

Pharmacist

  • What does a typical day, week or year look like for you?
  • What do you enjoy most about your job?, what is the most challenging?
  • What are all the different types of pharmacy that one could go into?
  • What kind of education, training and/or background does this job require?

Pharmacy Student

  • What advice would you give someone looking to get into the school of pharmacy?
  • Why did you want to become a pharmacist?
  • Can you name some of the qualities that would benefit you as a pharmacist? And is there anything you’d like to improve on?
  • What are you going to do if you do not get into a school of Pharmacy?

Pharmacist and Pharmacy student: (answer (questions above)

Pharmacist Answers

Q:1

  • Veterinarian Pharmacy:
  • 8am-8pm during the weekdays
  • 8am-5pm during the weekends
  • Review/fill prescriptions
  • Consulted when something new comes up
  • Deal with 34,000 animals a year
  • Dealing with drug stability and drug compatibility
  • Drug relation to animal metabolism
  • A lot of math

Q:2

  • Most enjoy getting the animals the help they need, and being able to cure them. Also, you get to learn so much from the medicine aspect to how it can cure the animal.
  • The challenges in the field include that it is a very small field of pharmacy so you need to be willing to go where the job is. 

Q:3

  • Veterinarian 
  • Retail (rite aid, walgreens, cvs)
  • Clinical (hospital)
  • Nuclear
  • Government
  • Ambulatory
  • Trama 
  • Doctors office
  • Academia
  • Research
  • All the specialties 

Q:4

  • To become a pharmacist, you need to have earned your Pharm.D.
  • Typical schooling is 6 years.
  • Earn a passing score on the Pharmacy Admission College Test (PCAT)
  • Coursework in pharmacy and pre-pharmacy includes chemistry, physics, biology,anatomy, and physiology.
  • Additionally, PharmD students must complete a series of rotations in a variety of clinical and pharmaceutical settings.

Pharmacy student answers:

Q:1

  • Lot of work
  • Find letters of recommendation
  • Make sure to keep your GPA up and only take necessary courses
  • Try to work and volunteer 
  • Make sure you enjoy what you are doing

Q:2

  • The amount of various industries that pharmacy has to offer
  • You can work in any state
  • The hours are great 
  • You also get to help people of course

Q:3

  • Good memory- drug nomenclature, side effects, and interactions between pills is a sometimes-life-and-death prerequisite for the job
  • Detail Oriented- we must stay on top of every minute detail of a patient or risk overlooking how an existing condition of medication might have disastrous side-effects.
  • Kind- 1) People often see a pharmacist after receiving bad news – to one extent or another – from a doctor and  2) People show up at a pharmacy to receive medication for a medical condition they are battling
  • Interpersonal skills- Pharmacists often have to juggle between doctors who don’t like to be questioned (see point 2), and frustrated patients who are upset at having to wait for their prescriptions

Q:4

  • Many other majors that require the same courses as pharmacy
  • With the heavy chem and bio background a chem or bio major could be foreseeable 
  • You can always apply again next time or apply to different schools

Host: (introduces game)

Now it is time for the ultimate test. I have acquired some unmarked pills and am going to see if Dr. Charest can identify and explain them. 

Pharmacist: (tries to match the pills and gives facts about them)

  • Lyrica (pregabalin), 10.0 million. (Nerve pain medication It can treat nerve and muscle pain, including fibromyalgia. It can also treat seizures.)
  • Ventolin HFA (albuterol), 18.2 million. (Bronchodilator It can treat or prevent bronchospasm.)
  • Synthroid (levothyroxine), 21.5 million. (Hormone It can treat hypothyroidism. It can also treat an enlarged thyroid gland and thyroid cancer.)

Host: (thanks the guests for attending)

Pharmacist and pharmacy student: (thank the host)

Host: (wraps up the show)

Dry-Dry Run:

Journal 17:

For our dry dry run, I feel like we have worked out most of the details to how we want our dry run and our main presentation to go. One part we have figured out is what we want to incorporate in our speech. We wanted this to be a talk show feel with having a Q&A and having a game segment. We even have a name which is “In Our Element”. Other than that, we also have figured out the flow to our speech, being a more relaxed talk show, where the guests feel comfortable answering all the questions. The tone is in the middle where it is not a super serious speech but it is also not very comical. One gets to be entertained by the answers and the game and gets to learn from the whole experience. The last part we have figured out is the backdrop to the speech, as we have found a talk show background that matches what we wanted. The parts that we are rethinking include adding a sort of logo segment to the beginning of the speech to make it look more like the talk shows on television. Also we are thinking about the music we want to add to the speech, trying to find background music and music for the beginning segment that is more on the upbeat side. We hope that in meeting before our dry run, we can work out more of the details to our speech, and it will help with making our dry run will go smoothly.

Dry Run:

Journal 18

For our dry run, I feel that we were able to improve from our dry dry run, but there are still some areas that we can work on before our final project. The parts that I felt went well for us were our organization with our outline and being able to run through the presentation without complications. For our outline, we made sure that we incorporated everything we wanted in the talk show. We had introduction, questions from the audience and a game. We took time to prepare for our speech and we ran through a few times to make sure that we understood what we wrote and added/took away parts that we felt needed to be. For the presentation itself, we were able to run through, looking at our outline and at the audience, and we did not have any awkward pauses. We were able to go off of each other and talk as though we were all just having a relaxed and casual conversation which is what we wanted. For the parts we wanted to fix, one part was looking more at the audience. We kept looking down at our outline because we did not fully memorize what we wanted to say. We are going to make sure we meet up before our filming time to practice again what we want to say, trying not to look at the outline. Also, we saw a comment from the audience about the game and how we might want to make it earlier and have more words for the audience to understand. We are keeping this in mind, and are going to fix our game so that the audience will be able to know what we are talking about. We also want to look for more music for our presentation. We feel that if we fix these things, it will be able to make our presentation run more smoothly.

Updated Outline:

Outline:

Host: (starts off the show and introduces herself and the guests)

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to this week’s episode of “In Our Element.” I am your Host Hailey Smith and today we will be learning all about Pharmacists and the required schooling to become one. Pharmaceutical texts date back all the way to 2100 BCE, to now, 2019, where pharmacists are one of the most needed health professionals with a very large range of specialties. 

Today we have two very special guests, Dr. Charest and Mr. Andrew Straffin!

Pharmacy student: (Introduces himself)

Hello, I’m Andrew Straffin. I am a current student at the university of new england. I am apart of the 2+4 PharmD program and I am a first year student in the Pre Pharm Program. Over the summer I will be applying to the college of pharmacy and hopefully by the time my interview rolls around I will have decided my chosen path in the pharmaceutical industry.Today I will hopefully have some answers to your questions and maybe even learn something along the way as well.

Host: (introduces game)

Well thank you so much for being here! Happy to have you both. Now I am going to ask that the audience sends in questions to ask either Dr. Charest or Andrew. You can send your questions in at inourelement.com or tweet them to me @inourelementhost and we will come back to them later in the show. 

Now it is time for the ultimate test. I have acquired some unmarked pills and am going to see if Dr. Charest and Andrew can match them with their name and explain them. 

Pharmacist: (tries to match the pills and gives facts about them)

  • Lyrica (pregabalin), 10.0 million. (Nerve pain medication It can treat nerve and muscle pain, including fibromyalgia. It can also treat seizures.)
    • This is pregabalin, a common brand for this drug is called Lyrica, and it is used to treat muscle pain, such as fibromyalgia, which is musculoskeletal pain.
  • Ventolin HFA (albuterol), 18.2 million. (Bronchodilator It can treat or prevent lung problems that accompany asthma such as lung spasms, wheeziness, etc.)
    • This is Albuterol, a common brand is Ventolin, and this is able to treat bronchospasms which is tightening of the muscles in the bronchi of the lungs. 
  • Synthroid (levothyroxine), 21.5 million. (Hormone that treats hypothyroidism. In simpler terms it helps your thyroid to regulate the body’s metabolic rate as well as heart and digestive function, muscle control and even brain development,  .

Host: (introduces questions from the audience-goes back and forth for each question with the guests)

Well that was definitely impressive; I can’t even imagine being able to identity random medications like that. Wow.

Now it’s time to answer some of your questions

Pharmacist and Pharmacy student: (answer (questions above)

Pharmacist Answers

Q:1

  • Veterinarian Pharmacy:
  • 9-12 hour days
  • Deal with 34,000 animals a year
  • Dealing with drug stability and drug compatibility
  • Drug relation to animal metabolism

Q:3

  • Veterinarian 
  • Retail (rite aid, walgreens, cvs)
  • Clinical (hospital)

Q:4

  • To become a pharmacist, you need to have earned your Pharm.D.
  • Typical schooling is 6 years.
  • Earn a passing score on the Pharmacy Admission College Test (PCAT)
  • Coursework in pharmacy and pre-pharmacy includes chemistry, physics, biology,anatomy, and physiology.
  • Additionally, PharmD students must complete a series of rotations in a variety of clinical and pharmaceutical settings.

Pharmacy student answers:

Q:2

  • The amount of various industries that pharmacy has to offer
  • You can work in any state
  • The hours are great 
  • You also get to help people of course

Q:3

  • Good memory- drug nomenclature, side effects, and interactions between pills is a sometimes-life-and-death prerequisite for the job
  • Detail Oriented- we must stay on top of every minute detail of a patient or risk overlooking how an existing condition of medication might have disastrous side-effects.
  • Kind- 1) People often see a pharmacist after receiving bad news – to one extent or another – from a doctor and  2) People show up at a pharmacy to receive medication for a medical condition they are battling
  • Interpersonal skills- Pharmacists often have to juggle between doctors who don’t like to be questioned (see point 2), and frustrated patients who are upset at having to wait for their prescriptions

Q:4

  • Many other majors that require the same courses as pharmacy
  • With the heavy chem and bio background a chem or bio major could be foreseeable 
  • You can always apply again next time or apply to different schools

Host: (thanks the guests for attending)

Well I think this is all the time we have for today! I wanted to thank you both so much for coming on to today’s show- I know the audience has definitely learned a lot from the both of you. 

Stay tuned for next week’s show where I will have two special nursing students joining me from UNC Chapel Hill!

I am Hailey Smith, and this is In Our Element. Thank you.

Journal 19:

For the overall presentation for speech 4, I feel that it went well. I feel that we were able to improve from our dry dry run and even our dry run. The aspects that I felt went well included being organized and being able to compose it all together with music and background. Before the whole process, we made sure that we finalized our outline. We rearranged it to make it flow more easily. By doing this, we felt ready to film. Going into the green screen room, we ended up filming our presentation in sections, as we had to keep swapping out with another group due to double booking. We made sure we knew what we wanted to say and were able to run through each section without needing to re-film. I even made sure we practiced our parts in between filming to make sure that we were solid on our part. Before even filming, we had meetings outside of class, where we were able to mostly memorize our parts, which helped in the long run. Other than that, the editing portion was able to bring what we wanted our video to look like to life. Hailey was able to put all the sections together and would ask for feedback to make sure she did not miss anything. Through suggestions, I was very pleased with how the whole video came together. Even with all this, there is one portion that could be improved. I feel that throughout the video, I found myself talking more at the camera than at the host. I can fix this by focusing more on my body language during the speech, making sure I am looking where I am supposed to be. From all this, I feel that I have been able to improve on my public speaking skills andwill be able to improve even more as I move onto the next speech.