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This podcast is provided by pharmacists and faculty members at Rosal Franklin University College of Pharmacy.

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professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified health

care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 78. I'm your co-host

Dr. Cain. I'm Dr. Patel. And we don't have Dr. Schumann here today, but we have a very

distinguished guest with us today. She is the Dean of Student Affairs at our College of Pharmacy, Dean

Winneke. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for inviting me. And the title of our topic today

is transitioning from school to practice, advice for new practitioners. So we're

moving away from some of the clinical topics and kind of talking on the professional issues

that pharmacist or per se new practitioners face when they join the practice force.

And before we get into that advice that Dean Winneke, you would have for our new graduates and new

practitioners,

I think it's important that the listeners have a better idea of who you are, where you've

come from, and what your background is. So could you kind of just fill us in a little bit with that?

You bet. Before I joined Rosalind Franklin, I've been here five years in the Student Affairs

Department. I worked for Albertsons, which many listeners may know is a

national community pharmacy chain, and I spent over 20 years at that company. I worked in the

stores for about five years, practicing my pharmacy skills, learning how to be a manager,

working in 24-hour stores, low volume, high-volume stores.

Then I had the opportunity to work for the Midwest and the East Coast sections of that company

for about six years as their trainer. And that was so much fun. I got to work with students,

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