APPEs at Wind River Wyoming

Rotation: After five short weeks of learning, exploring, and traveling our rotation has come to an end. This was sadly our last week in Wyoming. The clinic activities this week included finishing our Journal Club and presenting it to Katherine and the pharmacy staff. The Journal Club was on the use of Belbuca (buccal buprenorphine) for chronic low back pain in opioid-naïve patients. Presenting this article as a Journal Club sparked lots of conversations about pain management and the complexities of treating chronic pain. We both learned so much about pain management on this rotation from completing this Journal Club and from presenting patients at the Pain Committee Meetings!  During our last week, we also went to the FedEx in Riverton to ship a box of our things home. We had to do this because we both had ordered Halloween costumes that would sadly not fit in our suitcases. Since we flew to Wyoming, we did not want to have to purchase another bag to put these in, so we decided to ...

Rotation: The fourth week of the rotation fell on Halloween! The clinic had a Halloween party where everyone brought food and the pharmacy staff all dressed up in costumes. We decided to be the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who. Katherine and the pharmacy technician Leslie were Bob Ross and Amber, the other pharmacist, was the Happy Tree from Bob Ross’s painting show. Dressing up was so much fun and all the patients loved our outfits! Katherine let us order our costumes to her house because there is a note in the pharmacy school house that says it is best not to order any packages to the house. For the party, we brought pigs-in-a-blanket and Oreo balls. The food was delicious and everyone was in the Halloween spirit!   Picture of Halloween Costumes (Kristin is the Grinch and Anne Thomas is Cindy Lou Who)   On Wednesday, we attended the Pain Committee Meeting and presented two more patients. Getting to attend these meetings was a great experience because we learned so much about pain ma...