Next Meeting -- Life as a Pharmacy Student!

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to get the word out about our next meeting -- it will be Wednesday, November 2nd at 8:00 p.m. in Room 270 of the Tanner Building. We will be hearing from Chris Mecklenberg and his student association at Roseman University (formally USN), and they will tell us what it's like to be in pharmacy school! I am really looking forward to this meeting and hope to see you all there!

Auburn University

Dr. Woosley came and visited us today from Auburn University (Alabama) and shared with us information about the Harrison School of Pharmacy! Here are some notes from the meeting:

• Unique characteristics of this school:
• Only two classrooms,
• Golf tournament with employers to raise money for scholarships
• Vaccinations for university
• Health fair and lots of service
• Field games day! Competition between the classes
• Legislative Day
• Rotation Experience
• Graduation -- family affair
• 30% students go into post-doc opportunities
• 24th Highest Ranked Pharmacy School
• Average GPA of 3.4 
• Not a grade-forgiving school
• Always find out school's GPA calculation policy!
• PCAT score is less important than GPA
• Biology and Chemistry sub-section scores are most important
• Shadowing is recommended
• Number of hours isn't important, just important that you know pharmacy is the profession you want to go into 
• Personal essay
• Want it in your own words, PharmCas has software that checks for plagiarism
• Interview -- extremely important
• 16 students invited at a time, interviewed for a day getting to know you and letting you know about the school
• Look for 7 domains of character
• Communication
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Professional
• Ethics
• Responsibility
• Analytical Skills
• Service Oriented
• Don't know your PCAT or GPA scores before 
• Will let you know within 24 hours if you've been accepted or not
• Rolling Admissions
• Take-away message: APPLY EARLY!
• Remember PharmCas is Eastern Standard Time
• 2nd Week of School -- you are assigned a patient 
• You interview them, find out disease states, find out drug therapy
• You will keep this patient for the remainder of the year
• The P2 on your team will be your mentor throughout the year
• Class size of only 15 -- 2 professors
• Pass/Fail -- intent is to learn how to talk to patients and how to solve problems on your own relating to pharmacy
• One 2-hour lab
• Teach on a disease-based concept
• Two years 
• Third Year -- Class size goes from 125 to 8
• Focus on problem based learning, disease centered, you will be given a patient-centered case with multiple problems 
• You will teach the class about your specific disease case
• Fourth Year -- Clinical rotations, 8 five-week rotations, one five-week off
• 6 are in an independent, chain, hospital, multiple clinical settings
• 2 electives: opportunities in Kenya, Arizona, cross-cultural, CDC in Atlanta, research

Check out pharmacy.auburn.edu for more information! 

Next Meeting Info -- USN School Rep!

Hey everyone! Here is the information about our upcoming meeting on NEXT WEDNESDAY, at 8:00 p.m. We will have a presentation from Dr. Michael DeYoung, the Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at USN-South Jordan! We will be meeting in Room 164 of the Tanner Building. Hope to see you there!