I participated in the introductory compounding lab boot camp that was held at the University of Toledo on Aug 23 and 24. We did two full day of lectures and hand on laboratory work. As the pharmacist told us, the intent of this boot camp is to introduce students like us with unique dosage forms utilized by compounding pharmacists, to initiate us to open our own compounding pharmacy in the future, and to make us think about compounding pharmacy as a career pathway. During the lab, we were provided lectures about basic compounding skills, about the tools and equipment’s used in the lab. Even if I was exposed to different lab equipment’s during my p1 year in pharmacy school, during the boot camp I was able to see different technologies used to help in today’s compounding. …show more content…
I was able to get knowledge about different chemicals used in preparing the dosage forms and why are they used.
From the boot camp I learned about what it would take to open my own compounding pharmacy. We were told detailed information about compounding pharmacist daily activity in the work place, what they do, how their salary looks. These helped me to think about taking compounding pharmacist as a career in the future when I graduate. We were also told how compounding pharmacist compound different medication in different dosage forms that are not available in the market, by making that they impact the life of specific population by providing them their medications in dosage form they want. Also as a compounding pharmacist, you will be able to have knowledge about different chemicals used, which will expand your creativity skills to come up with a different dosage form. This will make me expand my creativity skills because I will be using my skills and knowledge to come up for a solution. Also as a compounding pharmacist, they are able to work at the phone desk