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Erica is a University Career coach with almost 5 years of experience working with candidates for positions in pharmacy, healthcare, accounting, and more.
Pursuing additional residency training beyond pharmacy school is optional. You could choose to join the workforce and earn a much larger paycheck right away, but instead you are motivated to spend an extra year or two gaining more career knowledge. Your interviewers want to find out your reason for pursuing residency training.

Erica is a University Career coach with almost 5 years of experience working with candidates for positions in pharmacy, healthcare, accounting, and more.
"At the end of my residency year(s), I hope to have grown as a teacher, both in the teaching certificate program and as a preceptor as well as with my patients in the ambulatory clinic. I am really passionate about helping others learn, and I believe completing residency here will strongly develop me as an educator. Additionally, I am excited to continue doing research and am thinking about topics I want to learn more about. I hope that by the end of the year, I can do a few presentations or even get my work published. I think next June, I will feel accomplished looking back, knowing I developed myself as both a teacher and researcher."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Discuss some of what you're hoping to learn and accomplish during your time training with their Pharmacy Residency. Whether you are simply looking to hone your leadership skills and clinical competencies in a one-year program or are looking to subspecialize in a two-year residency, speak openly and honestly about your goals over the next year or two as a resident.

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