Eli Lilly and Company Global Medical Information: Pharmacy Student Clerkships in Industry
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ELI LILLY AND COMPANY GLOBAL MEDICAL INFORMATION: PHARMACY STUDENT CLERKSHIPS IN INDUSTRY JENNIFER L. RIGGINS, PHARMD Senior Medical Information Administrator, Global Medical Information
JEFFREY L. WINN,RPH, DDS Manager, Global Labeling and Global Memcal Information Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
With the growing need for clinical clerkship sites, Eli Lilly and Company continues to expand opportunities available to PharmD students. Thispaperpresents the drug information clinical clerkship program for Eli Lilly and Company in Global Medical Information within the regulatory component. Goals for the drug information clerkship program include: providing the student with experience in drug information, exposing the student to the pharmaceutical industry, strengthening the student’s verbal and written communication skills, improving the student ’s ability to perform computerized literature searching, and more importantly, improving the student’s literature evaluation skills. These goals are accomplished through five objectives consisting of: I . Developing a familiarity with various drug information sources, 2. Completing special projects, 3. Answering requests from health care professionals, 4. Developing an appreciation of differences in industrial versus institutional settings, and 5. Developing an awareness of corporate organization and responsibilities. Benefits of this drug information clerkship are appreciated by the student, by the school, and by Eli Lilly and Company. Key Words: Pharmacy student; Industry; Clerkship; Drug information; Preceptor
INTRODUCTION
cation and training to the PharmD student. In 1992, Eli Lilly and Company began its first THE CURRENT TREND in pharmacy year as a drug information clinical clerkship school education is the conversion to an all site. PhannD curriculum. As more and more pharThe drug information clinical clerkship macy schools convert their programs to this program originally resided in Consumer Techcurriculum, there is a critical need for addinical Services. In 1993, a program was develtional clinical clerkship sites to provide eduoped within the Medical Information Department, and in 1994, Global Medical Information accepted responsibility for educating and Presented at the DIA 33rd Annual Meeting “Optimizing training the drug information student. Pharmaceutical Development: The Global Experience,” Throughout the last five years the drug June 22-26, 1997, Montreal, Canada. information clinical clerkship program has Reprint address: Jennifer L. Riggins, PharmD, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285. grown substantially. In 1992 only two stu283
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dents from one university were offered the opportunity to complete their drug information training at Eli Lilly and Company compared to 12 students from six different universities in 1997-1
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