Qamar Mobayed
Monday, December 2, 2024

Making an Rx-traordinary impact on your community in co-op

Qamar Mobayed (Rx2026) shares her co-op work term experience. She outlines how she implemented individual learning during her co-op term and shares how to create a lasting impact in your workplace.

Qamar’s co-op journey started during her time in her University of Waterloo Faculty of Science biology undergrad where her first two co-op work terms consisted of working as a pharmacy assistant, first at an independent pharmacy and then at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy.

Here, she helped manage the pharmacy workflow, the packaging of different medications as well as flu shot & COVID-19 administration consent forms.

During her first co-op work term in the School of Pharmacy programQamar worked as a pharmacy student at a Costco Wholesale pharmacy.

She counselled patients when they received a new medication or a dose change, answered drug information questions and gave COVID-19, RSV, and SHINGRIX vaccines just to name a few. Qamar also performed more professional clinical services like medication reviews and minor ailment assessments and prescribing under the pharmacist's supervision.