A Lot To Celebrate!

You're listening to Lee Com Presents Heroes in Training. The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, also known as Lee Com, has been providing training to heroes all across the globe since 1993. This podcast gives you an insider look at the stories of triumph and hope from both former students and faculty, helping you decide if Lee Com is the right choice for your higher education. Let's start the show. Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Lee Com's Heroes in Training. I'm Kathleen Spinisoli, your host. And today we are joined again by Dr. Katie Boyoski, whom I love, and a second year pharmacy student, Davina Toland. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. So I'm super excited because besides that there's a thousand things to talk about with pharmacy this summer, because a lot goes on, even though it's summertime, within the school of pharmacy here at Lee Com Erie, which is super exciting. In fact, Davina just had her pinning ceremony. I know. And there's the pin now. Tell us Dr. Katie, Dr. Boyoski, what the pinning ceremony symbolizes. So it's a great transition. They went through all this didactic training the first two years, very intense, although the first first year summer session, they do get to go on two rotations. So get a little snippet. But the pinning ceremony is a monumental moment where we can congratulate them for finishing that didactic portion of the curriculum and moving on into a whole year of amazing rotations. Right. Which we call advanced pharmacy practice experiences. Bingo. Yeah. Can you believe I got that right? Because I usually miss it. Perfect. So, so, how do you feel? Excited. Yeah. And relieved. Mm-hmm. It does go very fast. I bet. Because of your heads down, your study and study and working like crazy and next thing, you know? Two years has passed. Yeah. Basically. They don't call it accelerated for fun. It really is. They are not created. Right. Okay. So now speak to us for anyone who doesn't know what exactly that means. So accelerated pathway. Yeah. I graduated from our amazing eerie campus accelerated pathway. And now, thanks to the big bill. What is it? The big beautiful bill. Big beautiful bill. It would, it's probably even more important for a lot of the students nowadays. You get to complete a three, you complete your, you get your pharmacy in three years. So the traditional pathway is a four year program. Which we also do have, whether it's distance education or in Florida, braiding to Florida. But here in the eerie campus, we are able to complete all of that in three years. So when she said, it's not for, you know, the faint heart in, but it is amazing. It's a huge cost savings that I don't think as a student, you think of. And it's a great opportunity that yes, you get, you don't get a ton of summer break, but you're really keeping up with that. And then you don't have any breaks that you feel like you've lost all of that curriculum. Exactly. Right, right. So it's beneficial in a multitude of ways. Right. Right. Because when we say it's three years, the tuition is not a four years of tuition spread through three years. It really is just three years of tuition. Right. Huge cost savings. Which is tremendous. Yes. So if you can just go right through, right? That's like hardcore accelerated pathways. I'm hoping the knowledge will be a little more fresh too whenever I go to take boards. Right. Right. That's right. There's not like slide in between the summer regression or the summer slide, even the young kiddos in, you know, undergrad school would have something similar to that. Right. But when you're in the accelerated pathway, I love the idea of that. I think I would love that once you make up your mind that that's what you want to do. Like, let's just get on with it. Right. You're going to your residency, your fellowship, right into work. And your own vision is fantastic. Yeah. I think that's really great. Yeah. Very blessed. So among the other things. All right. So then let's just quickly touch on a bunch of this stuff, which by the way is also on all of our social channels too. So we also had the distance ed students here on campus for a couple of weeks, right? And they had their white coat ceremony after like a few weeks of labs and lectures. So that's what I mean, it is one of my favorite, I love it all. I mean, the pinning ceremony, they're just great monumental steps. I know. It's huge. It's profound in everyone's life. And they don't get old every time it's like, oh, my gosh, it just melts your heart. Only I'm getting old. I'm the one that's getting old. Why is there right? But the distance ed students were here. It was a delight. You see them on Zoom or different platforms. But it's one time that we actually get to see them in person. And it truly solidifies those relationships that we were able to make virtually. And just really kind of hones in on that. It's so nice to have them on campus. It's very active learning, those two weeks or weeks that they're here depended on. They were going. Yeah, we do labs. We do patient counseling. They'll do oscies. They'll do volunteering, beach cleanup. They do fun activities too. So team building. And it's just really about relationships and practical application of everything that they've learned virtually from afar. And there are some things that all of you did together, right? The second year pharmacy students and the distance ed students, you guys got to see the Walgreens presentation on careers and sort of post-school opportunities, that kind of thing. What else? What else? Tell us anything. I know. It's been a really rich couple of weeks in the pharmacy school, I feel like. There's been a lot. A lot has been going on. And what happens with you next? Like what is the very next thing that happens with you? We have our gateway oscies coming up at the end of this month. What's that? So that's a combination of we have a verbal drug information question, we're given a drug that we have to basically interact with a mock provider. We're given a drug scenario to which we have to decide whether or not it's suitable to give the patient, and then we have the soap note portion of it. So there's subjective, objective assessment and plan of a soap note. And we're kind of skipping the front part of that. We're just doing the assessment and plan parts. It's a little more grueling, it's a little more tedious, but we just had a mock one on Friday. So it was nice introductions of what to expect, feel for it, whatever. Yes. But pretty cool though, because it's a great introduction to what rotations you may see. So it's the safe space and environment to maybe make some of those little nuance mistakes and change them before you actually go on to your apis, your advanced practice rotations. So you can make them here and hone in on some of those skills, enhance those things that you're really good at. I think it's a great opportunity for them to maybe a little stressful, but just knowing that you have the backing of our team, I think, should help you and your peers, right? Better to stress now. Yeah. So that would allow, you got it. Absolutely. I was fortunate enough to be able to schedule my apis and just about every form of pharmacy that Eerie has to offer. Oh, that's great. I'm pretty excited for that. I'll be in Fusion Pharmacy, compounding, pill packing. Might be doing an Am Care one with Dr. Katie here. So we'll see what happens and then I'll be back at Mill Creek for my institutional. So we'll see how you so we get to keep you. That's great. A little bit. 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So script your future. Again, tell me if I get this wrong. Is the National Consumers League Nationwide Initiative? Amazing. It is an amazing initiative that sort of propel, like, launch. It launches into communities across the country with, at the hands of pharmacy students and pharmacy departments around the country, right, for medication education. vaccine education, and a host of things that I'm not even saying on altitude. Yeah, it's a really amazing student driven. We call it a challenge they even do so too. So there's nothing wrong with some good friendly competition. Right. So we're up against, you know, a multitude of other pharmacy schools, although a huge component of scripture future is interprofessionalism. And we, or blessed, or the students earned, I should say, and were honored for their contributions to our local community for interprofessionalism. So they were really the, the poster, the panel that reviewed their application. Their submission was really impressed that they were able to work so closely with the podiatry students, the dentistry students, and the DO students. So it was really collaborative and impactful, impactful challenge that we just completed again. And we won an award. We won the award for interprofessional team challenge. Yeah. Right. So in competing against students and colleges across the country, we were chosen. That's so great. They did great. It's good. It's lots of hard work. It is. It is a lot of work. But this is also not our first award. Am I right? I know. So we're going to brag just a little because pharmacy school has been awarded before by scripture future. So before my time, they have earned awards. But since I've been here, this is our fourth scripture future in a row award. So the students have really honed in their skills. They, they look forward to this every year. It's a three-month challenge starting in January. So get yourselves prepared. You'll see Lee Com Kittos all over. Come January through March, helping in a multitude of areas rural community pharmacy, Kittos at elementary schools all over. Right. So any setting you can possibly think of. Right. And I was surprised. I mean, I don't know why I was surprised. But it's kind of shocking to learn that I forget what the percentages of people who do not follow the instructions of their medication of their prescriptions, either because they they misunderstood. They never really got the information or they got home and forgot or whatever, right? So without our pharmacy students in this whole challenge going out there, you know, a lot of people would not otherwise be taking their medication properly, which is a terrible thought. It's scary. Yeah. What have you learned about non-interiors? They're, um, you weren't surprised. Or have you seen non-interiors that you could? Too many times to count, unfortunately. Yes, it's very true. I've worked in pharmacy setting, retail settings for like 16 years now. And I've seen my share of things, but adherence is by far the biggest thing. There's repeated calls that go out from the company I worked for that's people almost, they almost annoyed the patient to the point of like, okay, you're due for a refill, but I still have three months of this. Okay. Well, but you know, I don't really like automatic refills. They're geared to help, you know, keep a rolling day supply, so the patient never runs out. So refills aren't usually an issue. You know, there's there's safe havens like that in place to make sure the patient has the medication. Right. And then, you know, proper directions, as well. So that's where the interprofessionalism between, you know, pharmacist and prescriber go, right? Right. Right. Are the directions making sense to the patient? Do they? That's like, think what happened. Do they understand? Yeah. I mean, I myself always feel like I got it. And then I get home and think. Oh, what did he say? The doctor said, yeah. And that happens. Right. And what is the number? And again, am I getting this wrong? It's something like with all of the outreach that you guys did for scripture, future in terms, and everything like hands-on, working with patients, printed information distributed and children through elderly populations, like over 200,000 people have been touched. Yeah, truly touched by their work. Yeah, it's really remarkable. So the end of the variety of topics. So medication adherence is our huge component of this. And, you know, really could be the bottom line of where everything stems from. So, but we go into making sure mental behavioral health, smoking sensation. Oh, right. So there's lots of different aspects. You know, there's these dreaded TikTok challenges. So we do allow my gosh, and deterring, um, to make good choices. Yeah. Pure pressure. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Yep. All makes up, you know, an impact. Yeah. And someone has a story and they've touched so many lives and positive and meaningful ways. So unbelievable. It's on the community, which is everything that we talk about, right? It's just being part of the community and the difference that you all make. That's right. Welcome. Congratulations to you, Dr. Boyleski, assistant professor, pharmacy practice here. Lee, come eerie. And Devina, thanks for sharing with us. Thanks for having me today. We'll see you next time. Remember to check us out on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, all the places. And this podcast is on all the places you can get a podcast or you can just watch it on YouTube. And we'll see you next time. Thanks.