Today’s new pharmacy school graduates are eager to find ways to set themselves apart from the crowd and land a coveted residency position, although no one really knows what to expect from their experience. Is this the right choice for me? What is the value of a residency? What is the process for selecting and applying to various positions? These questions, and many more, are tackled in Letters from Pharmacy Residents: Navigating Your Career, a collection of 33 inspiring letters from young practitioners who have recently completed their own PGY1 or PGY2 residency. Edited by Sara J. White, MS, FASHP, Harold N. Godwin, MS, FASHP, FAPhA, and Susan Teil Boyer, MS, FASHP, this book is the latest addition to ASHP’s Letters series, a one of a kind road map to the pharmacy experience. Letters from Pharmacy Residents joins Letters to a Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life and Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists and Letters from Rising Pharmacy Stars: Advice on Creating and Advancing Your Career in a Changing Profession, as part of a growing collection of personal letters created to inspire and comfort pharmacists through all stages of their professional journey. Each chapter is a personal letter to the reader, filled with practical advice and insight on a wide range of experiences. More than a book, Letters from Pharmacy Residents is an essential guide to navigating your life and pharmacy journey.

The latest in ASHP’s Letters series, Letters from Pharmacy Preceptors: Pearls for Success is comprised of 22 letters from award-winning pharmacy preceptors from a wide variety of practice settings and organizations. Led by Co-Editors Joshua Raub, Sara J. White, and Cathy Walker, this inspiring compilation draws on the vast experience, knowledge, and expertise from past recipients of the ASHP Foundation’s Pharmacy Residency Excellence Award who have been recognized in their program achievements and leadership in the training of pharmacy residents. This book is intended to help guide both new and tenured preceptors to further develop their skills as pharmacy educators. This compilation of shared best practices and precepting pearls is derived from the collective experience of precepting over 2,148 residents. Letters from Pharmacy Preceptors joins the ASHP series of personal letters books created to inspire pharmacists through all stages of their professional journey.

Letters from Women in Pharmacy: Stories on Integrating Life and Career focuses on the unique challenges and opportunities faced by women in pharmacy. This collection of 31 personal letters represents experiences of women from a wide array of backgrounds and career paths. Each letter is filled with practical advice, insights, and compelling stories on developing strong support systems and maintaining healthy perspectives on the many roles that women balance to inspire generations of future pharmacy leaders. This Letters publication was stimulated by the ASHP 2016 Women in Pharmacy Leadership Steering Committee recommendation to ASHP: Proactively collect and share stories, case studies and scenarios of how women have addressed gender, workplace, work-life integration, and leadership challenges. The power of this publication comes from each person’s specific journey, all unique but similar in reaching for their potential as both a pharmacist and woman. It emphasizes the multiple successful approaches to blending a career and personal life.

Letters from Leaders in Pharmacy shares the inspiring journeys of 31 pharmacy leaders who have completed or been involved with the Pharmacy Leadership Academy— an online, year-long, rigorous program with a comprehensive curriculum designed to enhance the leadership competence of pharmacists and the pharmacy workforce. These letters will allow you to benefit from others’ leadership journeys and lessons learned including: In the pharmacy content, learning the meaning of leadership and what success looks like. Realizing the value of being nimble and the importance of organizational culture and design. Being in leadership for the right reasons. Learning that empowering your staff entails understanding how the work gets done. Believing in yourself. Appreciating the value of mentors. Observing other leaders and learning from what works and what doesn’t work. And many more

ASHP’s significantly updated 4th edition of our widely popular Preceptor’s Handbook for Pharmacists expands the content to include current challenges and issues impacting preceptors since fundamental changes have occurred that greatly affect modern practice including: The onboarding process Wellness and resiliency Misconduct and inappropriate behaviors Teaching across diverse student populations Ethics To be an effective preceptor, a pharmacist should exhibit clinical competency skills, possess excellent communication skills, and also demonstrate humanistic skills. This edition includes perspectives from across the country and from different or unique practice programs to bring a wide variety of expertise to this edition. The intent is for this book to be reflective on broad practice guidelines. The Preceptor's Handbook for Pharmacists, 4th edition is the updated and expanded authoritative resource for both new and experienced pharmacy preceptors to create a lifelong impact on young pharmacists.

Today's new pharmacy school graduates are eager to find ways to set themselves apart from the crowd and land a coveted residency position, although no one really knows what to expect from their experience. Is this the right choice for me? What is the value of a residency? What is the process for selecting and applying to various positions? These questions, and many more, are tackled in Letters from Pharmacy Residents: Navigating Your Career, a collection of 33 inspiring letters from young practitioners who have recently completed their own PGY1 or PGY2 residency. Edited by Sara J. White, MS,