Chu speaks to packed room at HOSA conference

High school students attending the recent Hawaii state HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) conference in Honolulu got to sit in on a variety of career workshops, including one presented by DKICP Associate Professor Cherie Chu. Her presentation, titled Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Pharmacists, drew a packed room of interested young people.

“I talked about a typical day in the life of a critical care and emergency medicine pharmacist,” says Chu, “and provided reasons to pick pharmacy as a career. I also provided information about the DKICP program and prerequisites, discussed why I went into pharmacy, what made me choose this career path, and why I chose critical care and emergency medicine as my practice areas.”

She also fielded questions from students about the pharmacy program, opportunities for shadowing a pharmacist and educational costs and financial return.