130 - From Pharmacy Student to Clinical Scientist in Pharma: An Interview with Dr. Anastasiya Koshkina

HelixTalk - Rosalind Franklin University's College of Pharmacy Podcast

Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS

Health & Fitness, Medications, Rosalindfranklin, Rfums, Pharmacy, Pharmd, Pharmacist, Medicine, Drugs

5 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss pharmaceutical industry career paths with Dr. Anastasiya Koshkina, a graduate of the RFUMS College of Pharmacy and Associate Director and Clinical Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

Key Concepts

When preparing for the fellowship application process, do your homework on the sector(s) you plan to apply for. It is crucial that you have a cohesive and logical story for why you are applying and what makes you a good fit for the position.
Strong clinical knowledge is important in the pharmaceutical industry even though there are no traditional direct patient care interactions.
Postgraduate pharmaceutical fellowship programs are looking for applicants with strong academics (high GPA), leadership experience in extracurricular, and research experiences.
Pharmacy fellowship programs are specific to a sector of a pharmaceutical company (e.g. medical affairs, regulatory affairs, research and development, etc.).. Unlike with pharmacy residencies, fellowships may or may not have rotations; if rotations exist, they are usually many months in length.
The team (the people you will be working with) are an essential component of a position. It is much better to work with a team that is supportive and committed to your professional development than to have a seemingly perfect job but be part of a team that is not supportive. The people are everything!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Helix Talk, an educational podcast for healthcare students and providers covering real-life clinical pearls, professional pharmacy topics, and drug therapy discussions.
0:11.0	This podcast is provided by pharmacists and faculty members at Rosal Franklin University College of Pharmacy.
0:17.0	This podcast contains general information for educational purposes only. This is not professional
0:22.4	advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified health care provider.
0:27.2	And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 130. I'm your co-host, Dr. Cain.
0:36.0	I'm Dr. Patel. We actually have two exciting announcements
0:39.1	before we start today's episode. So the first announcement is that we now have a mailing list.
0:43.9	So if you go to helixtalk.com and you click on the subscribe to our mailing list link on that
0:49.8	homepage, whenever we come up with new episodes, you can get that episode email to you in your inbox.
0:55.1	This is perfect for those that don't have podcast catchers on their phones and things like that,
0:59.4	but want to be alerted whenever a new episode comes out. So if you'd like that, go to our website
1:03.7	helixtalk.com and go ahead and sign up. Part of our second announcement, we want to bring
1:08.9	in the audience on the behind the scene of what
1:13.1	it takes to come up with an episode and we want your participation.
1:17.6	We're working on a potential COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy episode, but we want to hear from
1:23.2	you.
1:24.2	So this is not a research survey, but we want to hear from you about things that you have
1:30.0	heard from patients and family members and friends about just COVID-19 vaccine and kind of
1:36.5	concerns or issues or hazardous that they're having. It's a short nine question survey. It will
1:43.2	take you no more than two minutes to complete.
1:46.0	The link will be available on the HILICS talk and the survey will be live.
1:50.0	So if you can please take that couple minutes of your time to complete the survey, it would make
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