VCU agrees to automatically accept eligible Randolph-Macon College students into pharmacy school
VCU and Randolph-Macon College have signed an agreement to automatically grant admission into VCU’s Pharm.D. program to eligible Randolph-Macon students. Randolph-Macon sophomores who meet VCU’s requirement for health-care shadowing and who successfully complete an on-site interview will be given provisional acceptance into the doctor of pharmacy program under the articulation agreement. If they maintain their […]
Auxiliary Label: Working to build better opioids
By Christian Ruiz Auxiliary Label Staff Opioids are a class of highly addictive pain-relieving drugs derived from the opium in poppy plants. These drugs are at the center of today’s opioid-overdose crisis, in which at least 115 people per day in the United States die after opioid overdoses. If you have ever had your wisdom […]
About Auxiliary Label
Auxiliary Label is a student-created blog examining pharmacy life, education and research at the VCU School of Pharmacy from a student perspective. It is overseen by Greg Weatherford, the school’s director of communications. Contact him here. MEET THE STAFF Nicole Carter has a BS in biochemistry with a minor in biology from Old Dominion University. […]
Dr. Rx: Apps can help people stay on top of medications
By Yasser Ali Q: How can technology help me keep track of my medications? A: Nearly 50 percent of Americans over the age of 55 are on at least one prescription medication, with 12 percent of those over the age of 65 taking four or more. That is a lot to keep track of on […]
With White Coat Ceremony, a new class joins the profession
Gathering backstage for their official white-coat portrait, members of the Pharm.D. Class off 2022 joke and laugh. Photo: Dan Buth WATCH: Pharm.D. students try on their white coats for the first time By Greg Weatherford | VCU School of Pharmacy The Pharm.D. Class of 2022 received their white coats and took the Oath of […]
Pharmacy students present at pharmacoeconomics conference, win best poster award
By Purva Parab (VCU-ISPOR Chapter President 2017-2018) Hrishikesh Kale, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the VCU School of Pharmacy, received the Best Student Poster Research Presentation Award at the recent conference of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. The top 10 percent of posters out of 1,600 submitted were considered for the award this […]
Artificial intelligence, “authentic interaction” will guide future pharmacists, speaker tells graduating Class of 2018
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy Pharmacists of the future will need to understand artificial intelligence, “augmented intelligence” and the growth of interconnected data systems, the head of the nation’s largest pharmacy-education association told the graduating School of Pharmacy Class of 2018. “There is no doubt that the diagnostic and therapeutic […]
Chemistry. Compounding. Zombies!
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy Photos by Danny Tiet, VCU School of Pharmacy Thirty students in VCU School of Pharmacy’s third-year elective on advanced nonsterile compounding recently got a crash course in doing work in difficult conditions. Really difficult. Zombie-invasion difficult. The goal for the Zombie Apocalypse Lab, which comprised two weeks of the course, […]
Two from VCU School of Pharmacy receive Walmart Scholarships
Two students in the VCU School of Pharmacy have been selected as 2018 Walmart Scholars. The $1,000 scholarships will cover registration and other expenses for VCU pharmacy students Casey L. Boyer and Jacob Ellerbrock to attend and participate in the annual meeting and seminars of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Boston this July. Walmart offers 85 of the scholarships each […]
Congressional fellow heads for Capitol Hill
Today, Nilofar “Nellie” Jafari begins a new and important phase in her tenure as 2017-18 ACCP/ASHP/VCU Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow. She has been selected to work in the office of U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Murphy is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) as well as the […]