The 2015 interview season was exciting this year due to weather. Cancelled flights, snow, ice, and rescheduling was a theme in February. I reminded of one key thing that easy to forget, be flexible! Healthcare and pharmacy is an ever changing profession that brings on new challenges and opportunities but how do we discover all of this, we be flexible.
Flexibility. Taking on a new role, rearranging your schedule, ability to that hard yoga pose you have practice for many weeks. Flexibility takes on many shapes depending on the topic. I find that pharmacy continually requires you to be flexible. Yet, with this flexibility I have found some of the greatest opportunities.
Being the first resident in my PGY2 program, this is my new definition of flexibility. We continually change, adjust, and revisit things. Try new things and scrap the things that don’t work. My calendar fills up but yet it is always flexible enough to fit in one more meeting or spend that extra thirty minutes on that project that needs finishing. My flexibility has become my life-line in time management and residency survival.
Flexibility is key in a residency and in any position but it all leads to the ability to accept change. With the changes the profession of pharmacy is facing, how flexible are you?