MEMBERSHIP

An Invitation To Join The Metroplex Society of Health-System Pharmacists 

Membership in MSHP requires TSHP membership. MSHP-only memberships are not available.

GREETINGS
On behalf of the officers and members of the Metroplex Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP), you are cordially invited to become a part of this rapidly growing, dynamic, professional organization. MSHP includes pharmacists, technicians, students, and industry assocaites whose goal is to optimize pharmacy practice for the public’s benefit. We solicit your membership and support to further improve and expand pharmaceutical services.

Today’s environment of pharmacy presents many exciting challenges to the practitioner. Patient oriented services such as intravenous admixtures, medication profiles, drug information, unit dose distribution systems, automation, and clinical pharmacy services require a continuing commitment on the part of the health-system pharmacist. Whether one offers professional knowledge and skills to a 15-bed nursing home or to the complexities of a 1000 bed integrated health system network, the responsibility of providing the best possible pharmaceutical services is of equal importance.

Such responsibility and commitment require the active support on one’s professional colleagues. MSHP is the only organization specifically directed and motivated to assist the pharmacist and other related health care professionals in improving institutional and health care pharmacy practice in the Metroplex. We look forward to your active participation!
Benefits of Membership
  • ​​Continuing education opportunities including state-required credits
  • Networking with other colleagues, professionals, and employers
  • Information regarding education, advanced roles, and new laws and regulations through discussion boards and forums
  • Reduced rate admission to annual seminar meetings
  • Development of lifetime friends
  • Paying it forward to your community, members, and the future of the organization
  • Social networking events with other professionals in the DFW area
  • Have a voice and make a difference in the field of pharmacy
 
Technicians
  • Mentorship
  • Helping other technicians to become more involved in their careers
  • Guidance for application to pharmacy school or other career enhancement opportunities
  • Helpful resource tools for issues related to pharmacy technicians
 
Students
  • Mentorship
  • Shadowing opportunities
  • Automatic membership into TSHP, MSHP, and SSHP
  • Residency and job availability and information
  • Opportunities to submit to the TSHP journal for publication
 
Residents
  • Moonlighting opportunities and connections within the DFW pharmacy network
  • Opportunity to mentor pharmacy students via speaking engagements and other events
  • Meetings to stay up to date on novel therapies
  • Workshops and socials tailored specifically to residents
  • Residency and job availability and information
 
New Practitioners
  • Mentorship: mentor/mentee program geared towards mentorship of new practitioners
  • Automatic membership into TSHP and MSHP
  • Opportunities to provide local presentations through MSHP and TSHP
  • Opportunities to submit to the TSHP journal for publication
 
Industry Associates
  • Automatic membership into TSHP and MSHP
  • Market and develop relationships with leaders in pharmacy
  • Increase the ability to drive/increase sales by expanding your network
  • Recognition as an industry leader, key stakeholder, and advocate for your profession and employers
  • Use of MSHP as a news outlet: industry news, regulatory updates, and educational purposes
  • Community involvement via volunteer opportunities
OBJECTIVE OF THE SOCIETY
  • To PROMOTE, encourage and improve pharmacy practice in an integrated Health Care System environment.
  • To IMPROVE the qualifications and professional skills of health-system pharmacists.
  • To ASSIST in providing an adequate supply of qualified health-system pharmacists for the future.
  • To FACILITATE the development and implementation of educational programs, materials and other opportunities that will support the provision of quality pharmaceutical care.
  • To INFLUENCE the legislative and regulatory processes in the state government to promote the successful implementation of the pharmaceutical care model.

MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
  • ACTIVE MEMBERS are pharmacists who are currently practicing pharmacy in a hospital or related healthcare institution, are primarily teaching pharmacy in colleges of pharmacy or are primarily engaged in health system pharmacy organizations.
  • HONORARY MEMBERS may be elected from among individuals who are making or have made outstanding contributions to health system pharmacy.
  • ASSOCIATE MEMBERS are individuals other than institutional pharmacists who by their work in the health services, or otherwise contributing to institutional pharmacy, make themselves eligible for membership.
  • RESIDENT members enrolled in recognized postgraduate residency training programs.
  • STUDENT members are individuals enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs in an accredited college of pharmacy.
  • TECHNICIAN members are individuals employed as supportive personnel in an institutional pharmacy environment.

To join MSHP, please visit the TSHP website.

Reasons to join MSHP

  • Continuing education opportunities including state-required credits
  • Networking with other colleagues, professionals, and employers
  • Information regarding education, advanced roles, and new laws and regulations through discussion boards and forums
  • Reduced rate admission to annual seminar meetings
  • Development of lifetime friends
  • Paying it forward to your community, members, and the future of the organization
  • Social networking events with other professionals in the DFW area
  • Have a voice and make a difference in the field of pharmacy
  • Career-specific benefits (see lists at left)