Hi Guys! I'm interviewing for a position and the DM said something a bit weird. He said that sometimes his team wears scrubs into the office and will sit in colonoscopies. That isn't something you require is it? I came from the OR so I'm accustomed to it but was trying to get away from having to babysit Dr.'s and nurses in procedures.
As someone who’s been here for 5 years as a specialty rep, this is 100% spot on. I’ve never done it because I don’t take myself too seriously.
A lot of reps are wearing scrubs because they're lazy and they think it makes them look cool. As for sitting in on colonoscopies, that's your call. When I launched Plenvu, I did this for the first couple months, mostly to get new trials started with doctors. But after we had a doctor happy with it and we saw them writing, I never went back into the endo center. Its not expected nor required. Its something you're allowed to do, if you feel it would impact your business. Besides, Plenvu is a P2 drug. Not that this post matters because whoever this person was wasn't hired due to the hiring freeze...
I’ve been here more than six years. I don’t think we are allowed to sit in on procedures since we gave up in Solesta. I don’t know anyone who wears scrubs or goes in to observe procedures. We are no longer really specialty reps. Just glorified PCP pod dwellers. But the money is pretty good.
Uh.. what? You either left the company years ago and are a troll.. or you’re Polaris or whatever they call them now, and also a troll. GI Reps have ZERO pcp or IM targets anymore. Futura and Integra sell Plenvu, the bowel prep and definitely are allowed to and encouraged to shadow procedures. You do know we sell a bowel prep right?
Ok obvious troll. No ones done paid preceptorships in all of pharma in years. What is this 1995? Go troll somewhere else.
We used to do them at Salix and we also used to go in on procedures for Solesta. I don’t know anyone who has been in a procedure since we lost Solesta. Am I the only one?
if you have a good relationship with a doctor, you just ask them if you can watch them do procedures... they will probably say yes.
We were actively encouraged to do this at Plenvu launch. Especially with the Plenvu Challenge program when it first launched. I'm not sure if your region missed the memo on that or not.. But if you were one of the GI towers, Willow, Futura, or Integra, you were encouraged to do what pretty much every other prep rep does, to shadow procedures to get a doctor's real time feedback on preps. Every prep rep in my area does this.. Suprep, Clenpiq.. Besides, you get several hours with a doctor to chat, why wouldn't you do this? Honestly, if you didn't know about this, your manager has failed you for not even letting you know this. The rep who made $50k off of Plenvu last year? I can guarantee you she did this.
Didn't she also stand on stage and say she got the name of each patient the doctors prescribed it for and went to the pharmacy to make sure the patient picked it up?
this proves she didn’t know what the fuck she was talking about. she probably fell ass backwards into a territory that was producing regardless of who the rep was and she made up some BS to sound like she was doing something different and impactful. Over the course of my years here, I’ve learned some territories do better than others, regardless of who the rep is. I’ve seen clueless fresh out of training reps win PClub because they had low goals or wide formulary coverage. Yet they stood on stage telling everyone how the made an impact. Then all the RDs drool over these reps and promote them because numbers are golden. What a joke this place is.
