Good Evening Everyone!
Welcome to my first blog post as an ASHP BCPS Ambassador! I have never blogged before, so please bear with me as we travel on this journey together. As a new practitioner and someone who recently achieved BCPS certification, I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself and explain how ASHP has helped me along the way.
I am originally from a small town in Indiana, and I graduated from Butler University in 2013. Through my APPE rotations, I knew that I wanted to pursue a career in clinical pharmacy, specifically in the area of infectious diseases. I therefore, completed a PGY-1 residency at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, and I am currently a PGY-2 resident specializing in infectious diseases at the University of Chicago Medicine (both of these programs through ASHP). My areas of interest include pharmacokinetics, resistant gram negative infections, HIV/AIDS, and infections in the immune-compromised host.
Outside of work activities, I also am an avid runner (scheduled to compete in the Shamrock Shuffle this weekend!), traveler, and reader (currently reading
Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett). I volunteered quite a bit during school, and I hope to be able to get back into community service and advocacy activities once I have a little more time on my hands after residency is finished.
I chose to become BCPS certified after my first year of residency because I felt it would be a good way to help set myself apart in an increasingly competitive job market. ASHP provides wonderful re-certification materials that will help me both maintain my specialty certification while also staying up-to-date on the most current pharmacy literature. After all, pharmacists must remain lifelong learners!
I hope you all will enjoy my blog posts and continue to follow along, comment, and ask questions as I embark on this journey as a new practitioner in an ever-changing clinical pharmacy career!
Take care,
- David Martin
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