College of Pharmacy celebrates inaugural Pledge of Professionalism

The Â鶹´«Ã½College of Pharmacy celebrated its inaugural Pledge of Professionalism event in Ludcke Auditorium April 9, 2014, as pharmacy students in the class of 2015, clad in their white coats, vowed to extend the professional knowledge, attitudes and behaviors developed in the classroom during their first three years into various pharmacy practice settings during the fourth year.

The transition to full-time experiential education is a significant step in the professional development of the student pharmacist.  In addition to reciting the Oath of a Pharmacist, which they first recited in 2011 at their White Coat Ceremony, the students received a patch, commissioned specifically to celebrate this transition, to be worn on their white coats, which they will wear during their rotations.

Addressing the class of 2015 at the event were class advisor Assistant Professor Lisa Pagnucco, BSPharm, PharmD, BCAP; class president, Wael Alkhalil; Dean Gayle Brazeau, Ph.D.; and a current fourth-year pharmacy student, Garlic Jones, who gave the students sound advice.

As part of the event, students placed note cards with their five-year plans and other select information into a time capsule to be opened at their five-year reunion.

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