I have now come to the conclusion that a pharmacist with advanced Excel skills is an oxymoron.

To prove this I did an advanced linked in search a couple of months ago with the key words “pharmacist” and “excel”. I was surprised when I got a lot more hits than I expected. I started to panic. However, when I started going through the profiles, I realized that people were describing how they excelled at say patient care or customer service etc. rather than at MS Excel.  While this brought a sigh of relief that I wasn’t alone in the boat of pharmacists bereft of excel knowledge, it made me also realize the huge opportunity that existed for me.

My journey into the world of excel has been through a variety or resources, but I have found wallstreetprep.com particularly helpful.

While I’m still a work-in-progress, I am encouraged by what I am able to do so far and wish to send that encouragement on to my other colleagues, who by their nature of work never have to touch a spreadsheet. It is doable. All it takes is a couple of minutes a day consistently.