Winter 2007 [pdf] - University of Kentucky - College of Pharmacy

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Mac Bray of Frankfort graduated from
the UK College of Pharmacy 30 years ago,
but he says he hasn’t stopped learning about
the pharmacy profession. Not only does he
share his wisdom with current UK College
of Pharmacy students, sometimes they are the
source of his new knowledge.
Bray is among the more than 300 communitybased
volunteer faculty members who serve as
preceptors and mentors to fourth-year pharmacy
students required to complete 10 one-month clinical
rotations as part of their Advanced Pharmacy Practice
Experience prior to graduation.
“Just as is the case with all pharmacy schools
across the country, we depend on volunteer faculty
to provide experience to our students and prepare
them for their future in this profession,” said John
Piecoro, Pharm.D., director of experiential education
at the UK College of Pharmacy. “Pharmacists who
volunteer as community-based faculty are some of
the most progressive practitioners and our students
often have the opportunity to assist in expanding their
services such as helping in immunization programs
or health screenings.”
This year, 95 fourth-year students will complete a
total of 950 rotations. Sites available are located in every
corner of the state and everywhere in between. Preceptors
represent nearly every facet of the pharmacy profession.
About 75 percent are UK alumni with the remainder
graduates of other pharmacy schools now practicing in
the Commonwealth, said Mike Richardson, program
coordinator for the experiential program.
“Many students say their fourth year of pharmacy
school is the most rewarding because they’re getting
to practice the knowledge they have accumulated over
the past three years,” Richardson said. Although they
benefit from the services of the students, preceptors are
committed to working and supervising the students
including spending one-on-one time with them, he
Fourth-year pharmacy student Jessica Tackett of Georgetown works with Frankfort pharmacist and volunteer communitybased
faculty member Mac Bray at Capital Pharmacy during her December clinical rotation.
said. “We’re fortunate to have so many alumni and
other practitioners in Kentucky devoted to seeing the
next generation of pharmacists succeed.”
Bray, a 1976 graduate, and owner of Capital
Pharmacy, mentors about seven to 10 pharmacy
students a year providing them with some of
the unique experiences found in operating an
independent pharmacy. “Along with medication
therapy management (MTM), health screenings, flu
and shingles vaccines, students are exposed to the
business side of running an independent pharmacy
including third-party billing and other financial
considerations,” he said. The “back room work” of
third-party billing is different than they will find in
other pharmacies, he said.
Jessica Tackett, a fourth-year student from
Georgetown, was working with Bray during
December. She says so far during her rotations
she’s had the opportunity to practice many aspects
of her clinical pharmacy education such as giving
immunizations and compounding medications as well
as learn more about the entrepreneurial and business
management elements of the profession.
Bray says Tackett, like all the UK students who
come to work in his Frankfort business, are well
prepared to handle the increasing demands of the
pharmacy profession.
“I do my best in teaching them about the business,
but I find I’m always learning from them too.”
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But reaching out to undergraduate students isn’t always the best way to recruit future
pharmacy students, said Vickie Henderson, director of recruitment for the UK College
of Pharmacy.
“We’ve learned you can’t wait until students get to college to begin recruiting,” she said.
“It is important to engage younger students and educate them as early as in middle school
on what pharmacy is and the career opportunities that exist. Students also have to know
what they need to do in high school – such as take advanced science and math courses every
year – to get them ready for the college curriculum that eventually will prepare them for
pharmacy school admission.”
In addition to recruiting a diverse student body, retaining minority students is imperative,
Lubawy said. “We hope the activities being offered once students are enrolled in our program
will be a significant factor in providing an inviting multicultural environment.”
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