Easy Pills to Swallow

Welcome to Season 2 of Easy Pills to Swallow! We are back and better than ever as resident pharmacists! This episode we take some time to catch up with one another, talk about how graduation impacted us, how we navigated the licensure process in our respective states, and what the first 3 months of residency has looked like for us. This will be a year of great adventures and learning and we have b...

Konner with a K!!! You know him, you love him, you've only heard his name 800 million times on this podcast. Lexi's boyfriend joins us this week to talk about all things relationships when it comes to dating someone in pharmacy school, particularly when they are moving every 5 weeks on rotations. Konner also went to visit Lexi at most of her sites so he got to experience a little bit of th...

After 11 months, we have successfully completed 8 rotations and only have one more until graduation! This episode we talk about our experiences at our acute care core in Alaska for Lexi and community core in Minnesota for Peyton. There are so many things we loved about this rotation but still things we learned and grew from as well. Lexi is making soup during this rotation so you also can come alo...

Iris joins us for this podcast to talk about the residency match process and reflecting on the journey now that we are on the other side of match day. We all matched to our top programs and are so excited to become residents this coming year!! There was a lot of time and energy that went into applying, interviewing, and anxiously waiting, but we made it through and would love to share what we lear...

He has been mentioned in this podcast at least 4 separate times so we thought it necessary to bring him on for his own! Dr. Wrenn joins us for an episode to talk about his journey as a neuropharmacologist, how he ended up at Drake, and what he loves most about being a professor. Dr. Wrenn has made such a positive impact on so many students and we felt honored he decided to come on the pod!

Annika is a 2023 Drake grad who is a current PGY1 resident in San Jose, CA. Both of us have always looked up to Annika throughout pharmacy school and are so thankful she came into our lives. Annika tells us about her journey through pharmacy school and what her current residency looks like right now and all that she has learned along the way. Thank you for your honesty and insight and of course th...

Courtney and Caitlin are the backbone of our class, the main reason we all became so close with one another and cohesive as a group. They are two individuals who worked so hard during pharmacy school to make sure that we all remembered to enjoy the journey and make memories while also grinding in our studies. They are the founding fathers of trivia nights, party buses, and overall camaraderie of o...

Allyssa with two L's, two S's, Y in the middle, and A's on the end joins us today to talk about her role as the compliance coordinator for the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Drake University. Lexi got to work with her for two years in the Cline office where they became fast friends and bonded over their love of brussels sprouts. We absolutely love Allyssa and are so thankfu...

I cannot believe that we have fully completed 6 rotation blocks, AND it's the year we graduate. Time really does fly when you're having fun. This episode, we talk about our experiences at our block 6 sites which were Iowa Methodist Medical Center with the trauma surgery team for Lexi and Primary Healthcare diabetes elective for Peyton. We learned so much during this block and both had wond...

It's the Midyear episode! Iris, Peyton, and Lexi all attended ASHP Midyear from Dec. 3-5th in Anaheim, CA. The conference was a whirlwind of events and emotions and we documented it all both throughout the time we were there as well as reflecting on it afterwards. We give tips and tricks, what we enjoyed most, and how we feel the the conference benefited us moving forward. We had a wonderful t...

Happy Monday! I first want to formally apologize to Marcus's family for the delay in getting this episode posted. I promise you it is worth the wait! Tim and Marcus (otherwise known as Tarcus) join us this week to talk all things P2 year. Notoriously, P2 year is the hardest year of pharmacy school. However, while we may have been working super hard in school, we also found connection in each o...

5 blocks down, 4 more to go. This episode we talk about our experiences at our ambulatory care sites in Montana and Colorado. We both had some challenging experiences that pushed us to grow a lot but weighed on our hearts that we felt the need to talk about. Overall, we are so thankful for our experiences, but this episode is a little heavier than some of our other ones have been. Nonetheless, we...

Carter Richard Holm joins us this week to talk all things law school! Carter is Peyton's roommate and (arguably) best friend. It's been such a treat to get to know him over the years and this episode is a bundle of laughs and law. Grad school is hard but it's the people and experiences that get us through. Carter is living proof of that and we hope you enjoy this episode!

We want to apologize for the hiatus in episodes, the past couple of weeks have thrown some curve balls at us. However, we are so excited to be back and with none other than Jana Kay! Jana is one of those people who light up the room when they walk into it. She makes everyone around her feel better and feel worthy and it is a privilege to call her our friend. We talk about her rotations at Mayo, wh...

Please welcome the wickedly talented , Amisha Tayal! Amisha is a fav friend and is currently a P3 at Drake going through the preferencing process in preparation for her P4 year. We check in with her how that's going and reminisce on our experiences doing the same thing at this time last year. Amisha also had an internship with Seagen in Seattle this past summer and she touches on her time ther...

We are almost halfway through our rotation year and have been working our booties off these past 5 months. Our guests today are no strangers to working hard. Sam and Dillon are two individuals who hustled throughout pharmacy school but still were able to be the life of the party and enjoy the years we had together. They're doing great things on rotations and it was so fun to catch up with them...

We are four blocks into our rotations year! Each 5 weeks goes by faster and faster it seems like. This episode we talk about some of the most important things we learned at our block 4 sites (St. Cloud Hospital and San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation), the struggles we encountered, the coolest things we got to see/do, and how we have seen growth in ourselves. Do we feel more prepared to be a...

Two dynamic duos come together for this week's episode. Shannon and Fiona met before undergrad even started, just like we did and have been inseparable since (well until Fiona decided to graduate and go to PT school). We talk about how we all met during P1 Spring and some of the crazy experiences we had such as Ghost Girl at 1 am walking back from a late night study session. Fiona touches on h...

THE MOMS ON A PODCAST!! Our wonderful mothers join us this week for an episode full of laughter and good memories. Our parents have been with us through it all and we wouldn't be where we are without them. Not only has our pharmacy journey affected us, it has also affected our moms greatly. They even became besties from us introducing them and we wouldn't have it any other way. The moms ta...

It's been too long since the three of us have been together so we thought we'd catch up and talk about some of the great memories college has brought us. We also talk about traveling and being off on your own and how nobody really talks about how lonely that can be sometimes. All three of us have been so thankful for our rotations and this did not deter us from choosing the rotations we ha...

Kristen Giles is someone in our class that shines from the inside out. We are so honored to consider her our friend and loved having her on the podcast this week. Kristen is from Canada and talks about her experiences as an international student as well as what it was like to golf all 5 years of didactic learning while juggling pharmacy school. Not only is she a fabulous student, but she also was...

We are officially done with 3 blocks! Doing some quick math, that is 33% of our rotation year. In this episode, we talk about our experiences in Infectious Diseases in Alaska (Peyton) and during an open block at home (Lexi) and what we've learned/appreciated through it all. Block 4 is right around the corner so we will also touch on what we are most excited for and looking forward to for this...

On this week's episode, University of Michigan pharmacy student, Mary Westover, joins us to talk about her experience in pharmacy school at a much larger state university. Mary is on rotations in Alaska right now with Peyton and so they have gotten to spend some time exploring the state and learning about the differences and similarities in our curriculum together. We absolutely loved getting...

We took a little break from pharmacy this week and are joined by Peyton's twin brother, Alex Braun. Alex went to college in Lexi's hometown, thus connecting us even more than we already were! Alex graduated with a psychology degree and is currently working towards his Master's in Applied Behavioral Analytics. Not only is Alex a working man, he is also a married man to the wonderful and...

We have officially completed 2 blocks of our rotation year!! Time sure flies when you're having fun. This week, we talk about our experiences at Iowa Lutheran hospital for Lexi and Broadlawns hospital for Peyton. We talk about the most important things we've learned, some of the challenges we encountered, how we have grown, and some of the coolest things we got to do. Also, we are official...