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Record W2026056477 · doi:10.1177/1715163513501990

On becoming a new pharmacist / Devenir pharmacien

2013· article· en· W2026056477 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Ross T. Tsuyuki

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInternshipThunderPharmacyGray (unit)Health careManagementHistoryMedicinePublic relationsPolitical scienceMedical educationFamily medicineEngineeringLaw

Abstract

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Do you remember what it was like when you graduated? I’ll bet you were going to change the world. Then you saw that the real world wasn’t always what you thought it would be. How did you react to that? How you establish your practice is perhaps even more relevant today than ever before, with all of the new opportunities afforded by broadening scopes of practice across Canada. What are the aspirations of new pharmacists? What will their challenges be? How will they deal with these challenges? How will their bosses react? It’s a cliche, but our new graduates are truly the future of our profession. They are going to determine if we take advantage of the expanded scopes of practice and new remuneration opportunities. In a new feature of CPJ, beginning next issue, I’m going to follow 3 new pharmacists as they enter the real world of community pharmacy. Let’s meet them: Bryan Gray, 24, is a recent graduate of Dalhousie University. He has recently returned to his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he has completed his internship. His aspiration is to become a leader in pharmacy practice change and to advocate for patient-centred care and clinical services. He is also enrolled in the MBA program at Lakehead University. He has been hired by Shoppers Drug Mart. Recent graduate Bryan Gray, who currently works at Shoppers Drug Mart in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Anita Cumbleton is a 26-year-old from just outside Rochester, Alberta. Recently, she and Reid MacDonald, 27, from Calgary, were hired at Fyfe’s Friendly Pharmacy in Barrhead, Alberta, a town of 4400, 120 km northeast of Edmonton. Anita knew that she wanted to return to a small town. She knows there is so much she can do as a pharmacist. She wants to “help people like her father—a stubborn farmer—to increase health literacy. I love teaching patients.” Reid aspires to “see pharmacy practice change, away from dispensing.” Both intend to get their prescriptive authority as soon as they can. So far their biggest challenge has been educating patients on the services they can provide. Many seem unaware of what pharmacists can do, and they seem surprised and reticent about the pharmacist’s new role. Together, Anita and Reid have been conducting 3‒4 Comprehensive Annual Care Plans every day. Between those and follow-up visits, injections and general counselling, it’s so busy, their single examination room is almost never free. Sometimes it causes problems when both want to conduct an assessment at the same time. I spoke with Lorraine Grant, who owns Fyfe’s Friendly Pharmacy with her husband, Collin, who handles the business end. Lorraine has worked there since graduating almost 30 years ago. The pharmacy is a family business; her father-in-law owned the pharmacy previously. On hiring Anita and Reid, she says, “We realized that the new pharmacy services were the future and we didn’t have enough staff.” Lorraine Grant, owner of Fyfe’s Friendly Pharmacy in Barrhead, Alberta, with new employees Reid MacDonald and Anita Cumbleton. Our new pharmacists have already had some interesting interactions, which will be the subject of this new column. I’m going to follow them as they start their journey to provide patient-centred care, and invite you to join me. We’ll check in with them every issue. We’ll follow the ups and the downs of practice and see how they cope with the real world. They are our future—let’s watch it unfold. ■ Vous souvenez-vous de ce que vous avez ressenti quand on vous a decerne votre diplome? Je parie que vous vouliez changer le monde. Puis, vous vous etes apercu qu’en realite, le monde n’etait pas ce que vous aviez imagine. Quelle a ete votre reaction? Compte tenu de toutes les nouvelles possibilites offertes par l’elargissement des champs d’exercice a l’echelle du Canada, la maniere dont vous etablissez votre pratique est plus pertinente que jamais. A quoi aspirent les nouveaux pharmaciens? Quels defis auront-ils a surmonter? Comment y feront-ils face? Comment leurs patrons reagiront-ils? C’est un cliche, certes, mais nos nouveaux diplomes sont vraiment l’avenir de notre profession. Ce sont eux qui determineront si nous tirerons parti de l’elargissement des champs d’exercice et des nouvelles possibilites de remuneration. Dans une nouvelle chronique de la RPC, a compter du prochain numero, je vous raconterai le quotidien de trois nouveaux pharmaciens qui font leur entree dans le monde reel de la pharmacie communautaire. Laissez-moi vous les presenter : Bryan Gray, 24 ans, vient de terminer ses etudes a l’Universite Dalhousie. Dernierement, il est retourne dans sa ville natale de Thunder Bay, en Ontario, pour y faire son stage. Il aspire a modifier l’exercice de la pharmacie et a promouvoir les soins axes sur le patient et les services cliniques. Il suit en outre le programme de MBA de l’Universite Lakehead et travaille chez Shoppers Drug Mart. Anita Cumbleton, 26 ans, vient de la region de Rochester, en Alberta. Dernierement, Anita et Reid MacDonald, 27 ans de Calgary, ont ete embauches chez Fyfe’s Friendly Pharmacy a Barrhead, en Alberta, une municipalite de 4 400 habitants situee a 120 km au nord-est d’Edmonton. Anita souhaitait retourner vivre dans une petite ville. A titre de pharmacienne, elle estime pouvoir apporter une aide precieuse. Elle veut « aider les gens comme son pere – un agriculteur entete – a ameliorer sa litteratie en sante ». « J’aime eduquer les clients », dit-elle. Reid, quant a lui, souhaite que « l’exercice de la profession change, qu’il ne se limite plus a la delivrance de medicaments ». Tous deux envisagent d’obtenir l’autorisation de prescrire des medicaments des que possible. A ce jour, leur plus grand defi a ete d’informer les patients des services qu’ils peuvent offrir. Beaucoup semblent ne pas savoir ce que peuvent faire les pharmaciens et se montrent etonnes et circonspects quand on leur parle du nouveau role qu’ils jouent. Ensemble, Anita et Reid gerent 3 ou 4 plans d’intervention annuels chaque jour. Entre la gestion de ces plans et les visites de suivi, les injections et les consultations generales, ils sont tellement occupes que leur unique salle d’examen n’est presque jamais libre. La situation est parfois problematique quand ils ont tous deux un examen a realiser en meme temps. J’ai parle a Lorraine Grant, proprietaire de Fyfe’s Pharmacy avec son mari, Collin, qui s’occupe de l’aspect commercial. Lorraine y travaille depuis la fin de ses etudes, il y a presque 30 ans. La pharmacie est une entreprise familiale; c’est le pere de Collin qui en etait proprietaire auparavant. Concernant l’embauche d’Anita et de Reid, elle dit : « Nous nous sommes rendu compte que les nouveaux services pharmaceutiques representaient l’avenir, et nous n’avions pas assez de personnel ». Nos nouveaux pharmaciens ont deja etabli des contacts interessants; j’en parlerai dans cette nouvelle chronique. Je les accompagnerai dans les premiers instants de cette aventure ou ils aspirent a fournir des soins axes sur le patient, et vous inviterai a vous joindre a moi. Nous les suivrons dans chaque numero. Nous vivrons les hauts et les bas de la profession et verrons comment ils s’en sortent dans la realite. Ils sont notre avenir – voyons a quoi celui-ci ressemblera. ■

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.197
Threshold uncertainty score0.660

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0090.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1970.071

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.138
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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