Inside: Looking for a podcast to hear from your peers and get the latest updates in health care? These pharmacy podcasts are for pharmacists by pharmacists.
Have you listened to a podcast?
Chances are you have considering that 112 million Americans listened to a podcast as of 2017.
And, 42 million Americans listen to podcasts weekly. This is a staggering number considering it represents nearly 15 percent of the U.S. population.
So, what is a podcast?
A podcast is a series of episodes that a user can download and listen to on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer.
One or multiple people host each episode of a podcast. Formats can include a single host speaking, co-hosts discussing, interviews, roundtables and more. All podcasts seek to entertain, inform and inspire listeners to subscribe and tune in episode after episode.
Podcasts provide a unique way of consuming information or entertainment. You can listen to them on-the-go. Like when you’re driving to the pharmacy. While running after work. Or when you’re scarfing down your lunch before heading back behind-the-counter.
Benefits of listening to pharmacy podcasts:
- Learn new things
- Multitask at the same time, like exercising or cleaning
- Dive deeper into your favorite topics
Podcast topics include everything from exercising to American history to comedy. But did you know pharmacy podcasts exist, too?
7 Interesting Pharmacy Podcasts That Will Inform You About the Industry
Pharmacy podcasts can help you dive deeper into your profession and learn from experts in the field.
Listen in to these relatable pharmacy podcasts.
1. Pharmacy Podcast
The Pharmacy Podcast provides podcast episodes on innovation in the industry.
The content includes thought-leading interviews with experts in the pharmacy industry. Todd S. Eury, a pharmaceutical business development and marketing strategist, produces the show along with multiple co-hosts.
Topics on the podcast focus on:
- Specialty medications
- Pharmacy business supportive technologies
- Industry trends
The podcast produces content for multiple audiences, including specific episodes for community pharmacy.
Recent community pharmacy topics include:
- What’s Your Angle? Personal Branding, Social Media & Success
- Attestations & Certifications: Pharmacy Compliance Guide
- Privately Owned Pharmacies Opportunity for Growth
- Generics: The Importance of Rebates
- The Future Independent Retail Pharmacy
The Pharmacy Podcast is part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Or, listen here.
2. Pharmacy Leaders Podcast
The host of the Pharmacy Leaders Podcast, Tony Guerra, conducts interviews and shares advice on building a professional brand, network, and a purposeful second income.
Guerra is the Pharmacy Technician Program Chair and Pre-pharmacy Advisor at the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC). He is also the author of the audiobook, Memorizing Pharmacology: A Relaxed Approach.
Recent podcast episodes include:
- LinkedIn and Career Coach Expert Keith Carlson
- ThePharmacyGirl.com Top Female Entrepreneurs Jackie Boyle
- Residency and BCPS Advice with the Persistent Pharmacist Brian K Fung PharmD
- Pharmacy School Mentorship and Leadership University of Buffalo Syed Samad
- PGY-1 Residency and Clinical Pharmacist Anna Shields PharmD MBA Drake University
- Rural Clinical Pharmacist Spotlight Brandon Gerleman Montross Pharmacy Winterset Iowa
The Pharmacy Leaders Podcast is part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Or, listen here.
3. The Pharmacy Inspection Podcast
The Pharmacy Inspection Podcast discusses issues related to sterile and non-sterile pharmacy compounding. The show also looks at compliance with industry standards.
The show seeks to help compounding pharmacies and hospitals improve the quality of their pharmacy compounding laboratory and environment.
The hosts each bring a unique perspective to the show.
Bryan Prince, MBA, is a compounding workflow and design consultant specializing in USP <800> facility design. And, Seth DePasquale co-owns and operates BET Pharm, a compounding pharmacy specializing in long-acting injectable hormone formulations for equine reproduction.
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Or, listen here.
4. Talk to Your Pharmacist Podcast
Talk to Your Pharmacist is a podcast for pharmacists to hear from industry leaders about current healthcare topics.
Hillary Blackburn, Pharm.D., Director of Pharmaceutical Services at the Dispensary of Hope, a non-profit distributor with a mission to create pathways for donated medicine to reach individuals in need, started the podcast.
On the podcast, Hillary interviews leaders from across the pharmaceutical industry and encourages them to share their stories of success.
Recent podcast episodes include:
- Hot Topics in Pharmacy Law: 340B, DSCSA, Healthcare Reform
- Pharmacy Career Coaching: Find Out if It’s Right for You?
- Medication Safety Experts
- The Pharmacists’ Role in Medical Cannabis
- Translating Your Pharmacy Skills to Non-Traditional Career Paths
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
5. HelixTalk
Produced by pharmacy faculty with the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Ill., the HelixTalk podcast provides clinical discussions to help supplement pharmacy students’ knowledge.
The show discusses hot topics that are also relevant to today’s practicing pharmacists.
Recent podcast episodes include:
- Holy Hypertension Guidelines – Holiday Edition
- Does Rosuvastatin REALLY Cause 42 Adverse Drug Reactions? Identifying True ADRs to Improve Your Patient Counseling
- The Pharmacist Must See You Now – A New Rule Requiring Pharmacist Counseling in Illinois
- Hooked on a Feeling: How to Discuss Benzodiazepine Tapers with Your Patients
- Diabetes: Does it Cost a “Heart” and a Leg?
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Or, listen here.
6. Podcasts from the CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produce hundreds of podcasts on health and safety.
Much of the content is for the general public, but certain episodes include good background information and updates on timely health topics for pharmacists.
The podcasts include a short section of seven episodes for healthcare providers.
The CDC podcasts cover health topics such as:
- Active living
- Antibiotic use
- Diabetes
- Drug Overdose
- Flu
- Hypertension
- Men’s health
- Obesity
- Women’s health
- And many more
Access all of the CDC podcasts.
7. FDA Drug Safety Podcasts
Get the latest updates on drug safety information by listening to the drug safety podcasts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) produces the podcasts.
The latest topics covered on the podcasts include:
- No significant increase in risk of serious asthma outcomes with long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) used in combination with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS)
- Warning that gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) are retained in the body; requires new class warnings
- Evaluation of increased risk of heart-related death and death from all causes with the gout medicine febuxostat (Uloric®)
- Warning about serious liver injury with Ocaliva® (obeticholic acid) for rare chronic liver disease
- Caution about withholding opioid addiction medications from patients taking benzodiazepines or CNS depressants
The podcasts last three minutes each and also include transcripts.
Access all of the FDA drug safety podcasts.
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