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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The interviewers want to know where you went to pharmacy school to better understand the type of training you received. They are also interested to hear about your most significant challenge and how you overcame it to see how you handle adversity. This question has no incorrect answer, as every candidate will have gone to different universities and experienced varying challenges. Describe what university you attended, when you graduated, what you found most challenging, and how you overcame the challenge.

Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"Seven years ago, I graduated from Ulster University, where I received my pharmacy training. During my schooling, I found learning pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics to be the most challenging at first. After hiring a tutor, she taught me an easy way to remember the differences between the two. She described how pharmacokinetics is what the body does to the drug, while pharmacodynamics is what the drug does to the body. She drew a diagram, explained the differences, gave examples, and then it clicked. After that, it was much easier to learn what I was being taught, and her lesson has stuck with me to this day."

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