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remains strong with students coming from a
variety of majors including the pharmaceutical
sciences.
The high-quality and the maturity of
the students in our PharmD program
are not only reflected in their
incoming academic records.
PharmD students are also
excelling in a variety of other
activities, such as practice
settings, student professional
organizations, and community
outreach. In 2005, PharmD
students completed a total of over
1600 hours in community service
activities such as brown-bag medicine
reviews, Katy’s Kids, diabetes screenings,
Figure 3. PharmD Professional Experience Sites
health fairs, immunizations and tutoring.
Several of our students traveled away from Ohio
State in outreach and engagement activities; 32
undergraduate and professional students to Merced, California,
to learn more about cultural competency in health care at
Healthy House, a clinic primarily serving the Hmong
population; 10 undergraduates to Puerto Rico to study pharmacy
in that region. Two of our students were selected to participate in
the Brazil Research Exchange Program.
Involvement in student professional organizations, Academy of
Students in Pharmacy (ASP), Student Society of Health-System
Pharmacists (SSHP), student affiliate of the Academy of
Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), and the Student National
Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) continues to increase since
2004.
Diversity in our entry-level professional and undergraduate
programs remains strong, with studentsof-color
representing 11% of the
graduate student body, 17.3% of the
professional student body, and 21.5% of
the undergraduate student body. We
remain strong in our commitment to
enhance diversity and made significant
progress toward our diversity goals. We