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Alternatives to Funding Conference

Here are some ways to fund the conference.

1.) Document all of your cost savings initiatives as a pharmacy buyer in the form of a quarterly, biannual or annual report.

2.) Meet regularly with your pharmacy director and point out the ways your are saving your organization money.

3.) Consider attending the conference as a competency that you require for annual education and gain support for your department to cover or subsidize the expense.

4.) Participate in market research about pharmacy purchasing trends and save the honorariums towards your conference.

5.) Reach out to your wholesaler and/ or GPO for assistance.

6.) check out if your hospital has pharmacy educational fund that supports conferences.

7.) reduce your annual inventory and ask your boss for an opportunity to attend the conference, present the savings.

8.) Attend a conference and document savings ideas youlearned and implemented from the previous conference to promote future attendance to conference.

9.) speak up! and promote yourself and your accomplishments.

10.) contact non-pharma reps, like biological companies or supply companies you do business with who can support you.

good luck

Name of Facility: Albert Einstein Medical Center

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