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(Unless you continue to practice at the same institution after you Remember, part of your role as a
complete residency, you’ll likely lose access to your work e-mail pharmacist is educating other members of
account, and saving articles and e-mails as you go is much easier the healthcare team, and the faster you can
than trying to save everything toward the end of residency.) pull the articles you need and share them,
the better!”
In addition to saving primary literature and review articles, we
recommend you ask preceptors and co-residents to send you elec- advised us, the single most important task you can do to advance
tronic versions of the presentations they have developed. (Think your knowledge as a practitioner in oncology is read, read, read!
Oncology Forum presentations, for example.) These can be useful With all of the other responsibilities of residency and pharmacy
resources, especially because they contain citations of landmark training, devoting time to reading can easily get pushed to the end
trials that you can go back to and study. Keep your system of of your to-do list, and that’s why we strongly encourage you to
organization as simple as possible so you can easily locate articles protect your reading time. Otherwise, the articles quickly pile up,
when you need them. Remember, part of your role as a pharmacist and you may end up missing important information. Even reading
is educating other members of the healthcare team, and the faster one clinical trial or review article in-depth, or reading the abstracts
you can pull the articles you need and share them, the better! of a few published trials each week, goes a long way to advancing
Building a thorough reference library for yourself should be an your knowledge. By following all of these steps, you’ll have a solid
essential goal of your residency training. framework for educating yourself throughout your career!

Finally, in keeping with the specific, measurable goals you es-
tablish for yourself throughout your training, it’s very important to
consistently set aside a specific amount of time each week (at least
1–2 hours) to solely focus on reading oncology-related literature.
This should be in addition to all of the reading you do to prepare
for topic discussions and presentations. As one of our mentors

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