MUSC Pharmacy Class of 2025 White Coat Ceremony

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going to start that up and it'll be on our youtube channel it'll be on there for ever so if you ever want to go back and watch it you may as well thank you [Music] thank you [Music] said [Music] [Music] [Music] so okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] say feywe ready please stand for the processional so so [Music] please be seated good afternoon on behalf of the faculty staff and alumni welcome to the white coat ceremony for the medical university of south carolina college of pharmacy class of 2025. i am philip hall i'm the dean of the college of pharmacy and it's an honor to be leading this ceremony today class of 2025 today's white coat ceremony recognizes your transition from undergraduate education into pharmacy education and ultimately the profession of pharmacy we are here today under unique and unprecedented circumstances after over a year and a half of a global pandemic while it feels a little strange to be here in a with a room full of people it is great to see all of y'all in person i'm also delighted to welcome all of the friends and relatives participating via live stream today students the past year and a half have been dramatic testimony to the importance of good health care and the need for excellent pharmacists pharmacists have played a key role in the global fight against covid and will continue to do so patients turn to their pharmacist for many things including medications both prescription and over-the-counter medication information education and reassurance vaccinations medical testing and the list goes on pharmacists also play a role in research drug discovery is critical in finding new therapies for the treatment or prevention of many diseases including coven in this pandemic pharmacists have continued to play an essential role in our patients lives adding new roles such as covet testing and covet vaccine administration to our arsenal to battle the disease if you were looking for a high impact career you've come to the right place for 140 years musc pharmacy has stayed on the cutting edge of health care education and practice anticipating and defining the future of pharmacy education as a muc student and future graduate you you join that family and become part of that story your journey over the next four years looks quite long from where you sit today but ask our fourth year students and you will hear how quickly this will go by and when you graduate you will have the proud distinction of being being able to say i am an musc pharmacist i wish you much success and fulfillment in this great profession at this time i would now like to call to the podium dr kathy chessman chairman of the department of clinical pharmacy and outcome sciences to introduce the cpos faculty thank you dr hall i apologize if you sat here for an extra couple of minutes waiting me waiting for me to run over from the children's hospital it's quite a distance these days unfortunately unfortunately our children don't operate on the same schedule that academics do in the children's hospital so um i am um as he said the chair of the department of clinical pharmacy sciences uh clinical pharmacy and outcome sciences many of you during your interviews heard me say this and so i apologize if you hear it again but our faculty are the faculty that are involved in practice um so many of us have a practice like me in the children's hospital or in our main hospital in our family medicine clinics in our community pharmacies outpatient clinics heart failure clinics infectious disease drug information a lot of different areas that we have practitioners in we also have a section of our department that's geared towards outcome research so we have several members of our department who specialize in looking at um how how are we doing are we are we reaching the outcomes that we want to reach with our patients and how can we better those outcomes um and so i want to introduce you to a few of our faculty some of them you may see as dr britton on the is at the end down there she's the first one you will see her this year you'll see her pretty soon on monday morning oh next wednesday so dr britton is an associate professor in our department and she specializes in community pharmacy practice and ambulatory care she's the residency program director for our community residency and has been for our am care residency for many years in the past and you will see her in a lot of places introduction to pharmacy practice self-care and complementary medicine some electives she's a key leader for our leadership academy which is a co-curricular activity so you will see dr britton a lot dr bragg is standing next to her dr bragg is an associate professor in our department and his specialty is family medicine and so he rounds with our family medicine service in the main hospital and he provides a lot of instruction in a lot of different general medicine type areas particularly in renal pharmacology and you'll see him in when you get your disease processes and therapeutics and also clinical applications next is dr sandra garner dr dr garner is like me she's a pediatric practitioner in our sean jenkins children's hospitals she primarily works in the neonatal intensive care unit but also splits times with general pediatrics you'll see her second semester of your first year in the first clinical applications as well as in pediatrics and in our disease process and therapeutics next to her is dr jennifer wisniewski dr wisniewski is an assistant professor in our department and her specialty area is hospital pharmacy practice she practices at the va and was a critical care practitioner at the va prior to coming with us and she runs our hospital labs so you will see her next year in hospital lab and standing next to her with the same last name dr chris wisniewski her husband is um in case you can't figure that one out so he is one of our specialists in drug information so his practice is in the hospital in our drug information center where they also do a lot of other things informatics drug information a lot of things chris will be your course coordinator for intro and advanced drug information dr aaron weda is next to oh and chris just got promoted to professor so congratulations to chris and then aaron weda is one of our outcomes researchers so she's an assistant professor in outcomes and you will see her in the outcomes course in the second year dr jolie firmo is an associate professor also specializes in family medicine and ambulatory care and you will see her in your second year in disease processes and therapeutics dyslipidemia and a number of other areas next to her is marwa so marwa is our first academic fellow so we just started a fellowship in academics mara we are partnering partnering with seikum in saudi arabia to offer an academic fellowship and so marwa just finished our pgy2 residency in ambulatory care last year she did a pgy1 with us and she also finished our pharmd program after coming over from saudi arabia so we're very happy that she's our first fellow as well dr mark lapoint is next to him her he's a professor in our department with expertise in neurosciences and neurology he is also a jack of all trades so you will see him in the third year in clinical assessment but also in the neurology section of disease processes and therapeutics and next to dr lapointe is taylor morrissette our brand new started on july the 16th or 19th faculty member so he's an assistant professor he just finished pgy2 infectious disease as well as two-year fellowship in infectious disease so he's just joined the faculty and you will see him second year in clinical micro and then a lot of stuff in infectious disease so welcome to taylor our brand new faculty member and then dr shirley is next to him and dr shirley is another jack of all trades we have a few of those in our department dr shirley is an assistant professor uh he uh you will see him right bright and early next week calculations compounding um he also does a lot of oh law and ethics a lot of different things that you will see dr shirley for during your time here there are a few of our faculty members up on the stage um so dr worrell who you you might not know who dr world is hopefully you've figured out dr world by now um so she is a professor associate professor in our department um our professor professor sorry um i knew when i said professor was right and then my brain my piece of paper is wrong this is what um so she's professor in our department she was a nurse and then a critical care practitioner and then she came over to the college and as you guys know is our associate dean for student affairs and a couple other things that go after that dr hall is actually also a faculty member in our department so he's the dean of the college of pharmacy and a professor um and uh his specialty before he became the dean anybody know oncology very good first question answered for the day so his specialty was oncology he still does uh works with you guys in an elective in immunology and you'll see him around quite a bit you know so he's around the college a lot um and then dr tran is going to be your faculty advisor for next year which is why she's on the stage and dr uh tran is an assistant professor her specialty is acute care medicine and she practices at the ralph h johnson va medical center for her clinical practice we also have a couple faculty who aren't here and i know the dean is going she's talking too much she's talking too much they always say that um anyway that's what they get when they tell me i can come up here so we have a few other faculty that couldn't be here for various reasons dr nicole bohm is an associate professor in internal medicine and you will see her in deep dpt and pharmacokinetics me i told you i think i've met all of y'all one time already this week so i'm in pediatrics i'm a professor and i um you will see me the first day of the second year in disease processes and therapeutics fluids electrolytes and nutrition dr de clue is an assistant professor who also works at our family medicine pharmacy and is in community and ambulatory care and you'll see him in introduction to community lab and a few other things dr jason haney is an associate professor and a paper's wrong again he's an associate professor specializing in cardiology and practices in ambulatory care in our heart failure clinics with medical university hospital dr shelby colo is almost as new as dr taylor morsette she joined us a few months ago and she joined our outcomes group and she will be working in the quality department at musc um dr nicole pilch is a professor uh who works also in outcomes and quality and her specialty is trans transplantation dr james starrett who you will see in community practice he also is very uh involved in telehealth and works at the through the feder community centers medical centers and he's an associate professor in our department and a couple of others uh wayne ward and don wiest our professor emeriti and some of our we have people that retire they don't really like to leave us because we are such a great place to work and so they will still be here and help you out in a lot of different areas and also shannon is not here um dr shannon drayton who is the assistant dean for curriculum and assessment that you guys have probably met she's also an associate professor in our department and her specialty is psychiatry so she still does teaching in that area and then the last person is liz weed who also is not here she is an assistant professor in our department she is the experiential director and you will be very much involved with her in your third year when you start picking what rotations you want to do so i have already welcomed all of you guys a couple times this week but i want to also welcome all the family and loved ones to the musc family so we're happy that you have chosen to let your loved ones spend four years with us and uh we hope that they will enjoy being here as much as we'll enjoy teaching them over the next four years thanks [Applause] i would now like to call dr pat wooster to the podium he is the chair of the department of drug discovery and biomedical sciences [Applause] thank you as dean hall said i am patrick wooster i'm the chair of drug discovery and biomedical sciences we are the department that will teach you all the foundational basic science courses that have to do with pharmacy and i do want to say we hold you in very high regard because we held the ceremony after they finished the pile driving for the new building otherwise we'd all be shake rattle and rolling in here so my job as a dean said is chair of the department our department is a heavily research oriented department there are 12 of us you can see that some of us are not able to come today i teach in several classes you'll see me in cop 609 and 611 which are the medicinal chemistry courses they're actually called chem here but it's the same thing there's also special project courses that you can take not just for me but also for the other researchers if you have an interest in research we'd certainly like to have you come up and try your hand in the lab for some of you who are interested in the dual degree program you are eligible to take a couple of our graduate courses along the road if you'd like to do that so there's ddbs 701 and 702 and the pharmacy students tend to do very well in those courses because they've had a lot of that stuff so you should keep that in mind uh let's see who we have here uh first is dr chao dr chow is an associate professor he's a medicinal chemist and a chemical biologist he came from the university of washington in uh several positions there and his office is in the other building in the qf building and you'll see him for cop 607 which is dosage forms and drug delivery systems he also teaches in 609 and 611 the medicinal chemistry courses and he coordinates the course uh pharmaceutical biotechnology which you'll have uh next churn they're not in alphabetical order so bear with me here i didn't tell them to so it's not their fault you'll find when you get old that your fingers no longer work all right so dr yuri peterson is uh next dr peterson is an associate professor a professor he's also a pharmacologist medicinal chemist sort of a hybrid position yuri knows everything so if you have questions you can just ask him he can tell you anything about science and probably your horoscope if you'd like to know his office is here uh in this building on the fourth floor in room 405. he's right next to me so i can keep an eye on him and you'll see him in cop 607 he'll also be teaching in cop 615 which is our biochemistry course and he also teaches in the biotechnology course and yuri interacts with the students quite a bit so i'm sure you'll get to know him very well along the road next is dr danielle townsend she's an associate professor in pharmacology toxicology and pharmacokinetics and she also is in charge of a what's called a cobra grant which is a grant to help promote the careers of young faculty she has a redox chemistry core for that uh cobra and that's takes up most of her time with with research uh she's also in the uh in the drug discovery building here on the fourth floor in room 414 and you'll see her in uh cop 615 the biochemistry course and she coordinates biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics which you'll have next year xi jiang is a full professor of pharmacology and toxicology and she got her phd at the other carolina university university of north carolina at chapel hill uh dr zhang is sort of a toxicologist she has a research program that involves liver problems that arise from alcohol abuse and things like that so she has a very interesting program ongoing you'll see her in cop 603 which is pathophysiology and pharmacology 713 715 and 718 these are your disease process and therapeutics courses that you'll get later on and she also teaches in biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics and finally sorry eduardo you got shuffled over here somewhere well i can tell you eduardo is an associate professor he is a pharmacologist and also works in mitochondrial biology he actually has a background in veterinary medicine and decided at some point to switch over to humans and and you can probably tell he's from argentina so he has some interesting uh stories about his country to tell you his office is also in this building in on in room 506 he coordinates the biochemistry course so you will see him on the first day i'm not going to mention the people that aren't here because i don't think i brought their little sheets along but i do want to mention dr ed soltis ed is someone who specializes in education and teaches an astounding number of lectures so you will certainly see him probably almost every day for the next four years at least the next three years so i hope you'll stop by and say hello to him the only other thing i want to say is that we do have opportunities for students to be exposed to research i think whether you're going to practice clinical practice or go into actual basic science research it's important for you to see how the scientific method works good for you to have that experience and get exposed to research so feel free to come and see me if you want to learn more about that i'm in this building in room 404 thanks [Applause] thank you dr chessman dr wooster it is now my pleasure to introduce this afternoon's keynote speaker dr lori dickerson dr dickerson has become one of the industry's most respected and influential voices in the last three decades she is a 1993 graduate of the muc college of pharmacy as well as completing her residency in family medicine at musc she is currently editor of the prescribers letter in the pharmacist letter and serves as a volunteer clinical professor in the department of pharma of family medicine here at musc dr dickerson has served in several leadership roles usually held by physicians such as she was the associate director for trident musc family medicine residency program and was associate chair for academic affairs in the department of family medicine at musc sees a multi-award-winning medical educator she is nationally known to advocate for pharmacy and a passionate activist in our community you can read more about dr dickerson in our program please join me in welcoming dr dickerson all right well thank you everyone it's so nice to be here i do a lot of public speaking but it's usually over camera these days um so it's really really nice to be in the room with you all and be back on campus thank you dean hall for your kind introduction and for asking me to speak to the musc pharmd class of 2025 it's really an honor to be here today and dean hall asked me to share a little bit about my journey through pharmacy how i came to pharmacy how i came to musc um so i was thinking about all of you all sitting here before me and how you each have your own story about how you got to this position and how you you uh came to be sitting here in that chair and how um you chose this spot as your uh place to further your education so with that in mind i want to share my story on how i ended up where i am today because really the musc college of pharmacy took a chance on me and that's why i'm here so before i tell you about how i came to choose pharmacy as a career i have a little story for you and jump ahead to my first day on campus in february of 1991 when i came to musc to interview for my post-baccalaureate pharmd because we were in the postbac program back then and i remember so many details of that day and so many details of my interview i'd never been to south carolina i left the bitter cold and literally the hip high snow banks of nova scotia okay so picture that it was very windy and very cold and the stress of my final few months of classes and my exams and trying to figure out what i was going to do with my future and i flew to charleston which i'd never flown alone this was a it was a big deal um i was blown away by the beauty of the city this was before the internet so i had no pictures right i had no idea what it was coming to i'd heard of myrtle beach but that was it that was all i knew um i was it was um i remember dean cormier and you know in the classroom uh interviewing us and telling us about his future and uh the future vision for the college and for clinical pharmacy i remember several of the clinical faculty i remember you kathy coming in kathy chesman coming in and back then we would wear long white coats with these big fabric buttons and pockets full of books and papers because we didn't have smartphones we didn't have cell phones we didn't have the internet we didn't have email so you carried everything you could possibly need in your pockets right and you had a beeper and the beeper was really cool i remember i remember that very very well and i remember just being so excited about what the college had to offer and what sort of experience could be in my future so and i thought i'm really going to fall apart if i don't get to come here it was so exciting so i returned home to nova scotia and i focused on finishing my classes and exams and i waited and i waited and i waited because of course acceptance letters came in the mail back then right so the acceptance letters were to have gone out i'd counted the days and the calendar how many days it would take for the mail to come to my dorm and the whole thing and it didn't come and so i called the dean's office and um dean cormier's assistant who was sweet pat sharp that you all some of you all will remember and she said oh my dear there's been a terrible mistake we didn't hear back from you after we mailed out your letter and we assumed you didn't want to come and we've given up your spot i'm terribly sorry well this was a big ordeal as you can imagine it was the morning of our big end of the year um [Music] graduation party for the graduating pharmacy students and it was a big event put on by all the chain pharmacy community pharmacy chains in canada and everybody was going to stand up on the stage and talk about what they were doing after graduation and i had nowhere to go so this was a big deal the next details are a bit fuzzy however i must have been home uh because dean cormier called my apartment and a few hours later that afternoon and said and i mean i will never forget what he said he he said we only have room for 24 students in the program that's how small the post-baccalaureate program was at that time so we only have room for 24 students in the program so i'm not sure how this is all going to work but we're going to make room for 25 and we want you to come so that was a life-changing moment for me and i will never ever forget that and he didn't have to do that for me right and he did and um it was it was it was a big deal so it turns out the musc email room had put um had not put international postage on my letter and it came back to the clap to the dean's office a few days later and so that explains the story so here i am 30 years later because really the musc college of pharmacy took a chance on me and increased the class size and here i am 30 years later and now they're investing in you just like they invested in me and so coming back to what dean hall asked me to talk about uh it made me think about my guiding principles throughout my career and the things that have helped me make my decisions and those things would be putting patients first committing to lifelong learning and being open-minded to non-traditional roles so i'm going to talk about a few of those things and hopefully keep you entertained with a few stories along the way so i first learned about putting patients first at ryan's pharmacy and i think my parents are watching and back home hi mom hi dad um at the drugstore that my mom and dad opened in my very very small hometown in eastern canada in 1970. so i pretty much grew up in the pharmacy watching my dad work side by side by the one physician in town to care for about a thousand people in my hometown and my mother taking care of every need of the customers in the front door and so you know anybody could literally call dad at any time of the day or night and he would know what little white pill they were taking and tell them what to do and anybody could call my mom and she would whip up these amazing gift baskets from the front store you know to give to so-and-so's wife for their anniversary or whatever i mean it was a real community oriented organization right when we were old enough my older brother and i gradually were promoted from filling the pop machine the soda machine as you all call it down here the pot machine to working the cash to working in the dispensary with my dad my brother graduated from the massachusetts college of pharmacy in 1987 and i graduated from dalhousie university in halifax nova scotia in 1991 which is the same school that my dad graduated from with his pharmacy pharmacy degree in 1965. my parents commitment to their patients and the community has really been with me every day now of my 30-year career my brother and sister-in-law now put patients first at ryan's pharmacy running the pharmacy there and carrying on that 50-year family business so in the last year of my bachelor of science and pharmacy program i was exposed to a new way of putting patients first when we had a new faculty member join our program who actually had just finished her pharmd here at musc and her residency in family medicine and it was because of her anne marie whalen that i learned about musc and prior to that we hadn't had clinical pharmacy really teaching our classes and i was really like sort of blown away by how she taught and her stories of working with patients and being on the healthcare team in the clinic setting in the hospital setting and uh i decided that you know the post-baccalaureate pharmd was for me and i needed to figure out how to how to get down here to do that and so now in at that time there were no pharmd programs in canada so we had to come to the united states to our pharmd and so you know how i got here and you've heard that part of the story but that was my my journey to musc and now my career has not been typical um so i want to jump to how the musc college of pharmacy has helped prepare me for and help me be open-minded to non-traditional roles for pharmacists so i did my post pharmd residency in family medicine and i learned so much from my mentors wayne wurt whose name you've heard already and you will meet and debbie carson who's his partner in crime in the department of family medicine i learned so much about pharmacy about being an educator and just about life i learned so much about life from them also i loved loved loved working in family medicine i loved working side by side with the family docs the nurses the behavioral scientists to take care of those patients and their families in the center so after i finished my residency in 1994 i joined the faculty and teaching pharmacy students in family medicine and i became the residency director for the pharmacy family medicine program and then the department chair for family medicine in 1997 or so asked me to join the department of family medicine full time and be a fully funded faculty member in the college of medicine now at that time it was a pretty big deal to be asked uh to do that because most uh faculty members in the college of medicine would have been physicians and not pharmacists so i felt a little um you know funny leaving my my academic home in the college of pharmacy um and and but i but i decided to take that leap and i moved full-time to the department of family medicine the teacher and me wanted to focus on teaching family physicians how to help their thousands of future patients and i realized that putting patients first didn't mean just caring for the single patient in front of you but it also meant caring for the population of patients that you could impact so i i dove in and became completely immersed in the world of teaching family physicians in the department of family medicine um as as philip said um you know i had some firsts as a part of that and i tell you these first not to at all be boastful but to show you what sort of opportunities are out there for you so i was the first uh non-physician first pharmacist faculty to be hired in the college of medicine i was the first woman to be promoted to full professor in the department of family medicine and i was one of the very few pharmacists nationally uh who had roles in family medicine leadership i was the associate program director for the physician training program the associate chair for research and again i tell you those things just to let you know that you know you're really unlimited with the tools that you're going to leave here with when you graduate from the college of pharmacy now 20 in in 2013 18 um eight years later right i'm sorry 2013 eight years ago i left musc to join the editorial team at the prescriber's letter and pharmacist letter and you probably haven't heard of the pharmacist letter yet but i'm certain you will because i know the college of pharmacy has a student subscription waiting for you and so i because i checked so i know that that's there now the pharmacist letter has been around for 37 years um and now more than 90 of community pharmacists are actually subscribers to the pharmacist letter and read it every month and get their continuing education and learn about new medications well i first saw the pharmacist letter in high school on our kitchen table when my dad started subscribing to the canadian pharmacist letter in its very first years so i read it then i remember reading it on the pharmacy shelves at dalhousie university and then i became a subscriber myself when i came to musc and i got involved with their parallel products the prescribers letter when i was teaching family physicians in 2007. so i was offered the chance to join the editorial team of the prescribers letter and again it felt again like a little bit of a betrayal i was leaving my home in family medicine it was a very difficult decision for me but i saw this as another opportunity to put patients first by impacting an even broader population by helping our hundreds of thousands of subscribers help their thousands of patients by getting good information out about medications to them so that they could help help their patients i was really awed by this incredible group of pharmacists that were all writers for for the pharmacist letter that i was going to get to work with and also the connections that we had nationally and internationally with government organizations and pharmacy and medical groups and just big academic institutions so i joined the prescriber's letter team i now have i'm now the lead editor for the prescribers letter and i have the pleasure of working with many of the faculty that are here who i call on with questions about how should we say this or what should we do about this as well as many of my family physician graduates who are out in the community across the country as our peer reviewers to help us make sure we have our message right so i've really been able to stay connected to my musc community through this new role so that leads me back to your training and you'll be seeing again some of these resources and other resources that you'll learn about during your training and it leads me back to the thought of your journey towards lifelong learning and that's one of the core principles too that i want to mention you're about to take the white coat pledge and that is to maintain the highest academic and scientific standards and that is a commitment to lifelong learning i remember back in my early days of the pharmd program when one of the faculty said half of what we teach you in the next two years so it's a two-year program half of what we teach you in the next two years will turn out to be incorrect and the bad news is we don't know which half that is okay so this was a big deal right but that's when it really hit me about lifelong learning back then what you learned today is really just true for today because information is changing every single day and nothing really can demonstrate that more clearly than what we've been through in the last 18 months right where we've learned and relearned and adjusted and readjusted information about how we prevent and treat covet 19. and so this has really been very difficult for the public as they're seeing sort of science change at lightning speed but this is part of your commitment to lifelong learning and you've seen it play out over the last over the last 18 months so if you're guilty like i was at the back way back when of learning for the next exam in your prior studies prior to coming to the pharmd program now is the time to change that now is the time to learn how to learn to learn how to learn so you can become a lifelong learner now when one of the faculty is teaching you about over-the-counter pain meds in probably a very soon lecture picture yourself in the pharmacy helping a patient choose a safe and effective option think about what you're learning every single day because you will be using it with a patient in the future every bit of what you're going to be learning you'll be using with a patient in the near future so now isn't the time to just learn it to get through the next test it's your professional responsibility to learn it today because you could end up working to save someone's life tomorrow so it's your professional responsibility and be ready to change your thinking when new evidence comes along you know in pharmacy school you all know this one we learned that beta blockers were contrary to contra indicated in heart failure and if you gave a heart failure patient a beta blocker you would probably they would probably die well turns out that that was what we thought and it didn't turn out to be true and now beta blockers are part of the core treatment for patients with heart failure reducing their mortality you have to be ready to change the way you're thinking there are hundreds of examples just like this and in fact probably half of what i learned in pharmd school right where things have totally changed so be prepared for that so now is your time i'm focusing on to focus on learning how to learn so you can care for your patients it is your they are your patients think about that they are your patients and is your responsibility because you will be an integral part of that healthcare team and you're fortunate that the faculty here will prepare you like no other to become an excellent pharmacist because they they're here to invest in you and they've taken a chance on you you just like they took a chance on me so a few final tips to close with this program of material will be difficult don't wait to ask for help don't hesitate to ask for help the faculty want to help you be the best pharmacist that you can be they want to help you be successful they're invested in you so ask for help just walk on into their office and get to know them and ask for help don't be afraid to do that get involved in the college of pharmacy in musc and in the community around you start to give back to your profession already even as a student by sharing your time and your knowledge and the expertise that you're gathering along the way carry that giving back throughout your career learn from everyone around you not just the faculty the lessons i learned from our residency coordinators and the staff in the dean's office were just as important as what i learned in the classroom learn from everybody around you and don't be afraid to talk to your patients learn to listen to them also don't make assumptions about what they are doing or what they aren't doing you will be amazed at what they will teach you and how it will help you be a better pharmacist so thank you dean hall for having me here today and for this opportunity to speak to the pharmd class of 2025 to share some of my thoughts about putting patients first becoming lifelong learners and being open to non-traditional roles and i hope it was helpful to all of you out here to hear some of our stories and i truly look forward to working with you as you become readers of the pharmacist letter and and we work together in in that role so congratulations and best wishes [Applause] thank you dr dickerson for providing our entering class with an excellent introduction to their pharmacy education we are honored to have you with us this afternoon and on behalf of the college it's my pleasure to present to you a small token of our appreciation [Applause] if you didn't read her bio dr dickerson is also our distinguished alumnus from this past year so as you heard her story you certainly understand why she was bestowed that honor i would now like to invite dr emeline tran the class of 2025 faculty advisor to the podium to discuss the symbolism of the white coat [Applause] before i get started and kind of get into the historical perspective of a white coat in the white coat ceremony i do just want to take a moment to say how much it is a privilege to serve as your class advisor for the next couple of years it's so much fun for me to see students grow and just to be along your journey is is an honor thank you i also just want to say thank you to the audience out there family friends i knew that i wouldn't have made it through pharmacy school without the support of them so thank you for being here thank you for being here for our students all right so i'll get into a little bit more at the formal um presentation so healthcare professional schools first began celebrating white coat ceremonies in the early 1990s so really not that long ago if you think about medicine and its historical perspective the first pharmacy white coat ceremony was performed in 1995 at the university of kentucky and today most pharmacy schools across the country hold similar events i still remember my white coat ceremony from years ago the white coat holds so much symbolism in the health professions and as a symbol to your patients the white coat represents several different concepts first it indicates membership in the practice of pharmacy you will now be recognized as a member of one of the most trusted professions your colleagues and patients will trust you greatly because of the diligence and commitment of those pharmacists who have come before you it's your duty to maintain that trust second it signifies your pledge to maintain the highest academic and scientific standards the continuous advancements in medicine and drug discovery compels pharmacists to be lifelong learners as dr dickerson had just mentioned third it symbolizes an immense responsibility to maintain a high ethical standard as a servant leader you should always prioritize your patients needs above your own and our job is to serve the public our patients and our health care colleagues with respect compassion and humility may the white coat be a symbol to you as well being a pharmacist starts today while you may not shoulder all the responsibilities of being a pharmacist your lifelong journey starts now as you learn make mistakes and grow be thankful and humbled to be part of this highly respected profession i want you guys to think about each time when you put on that white coat remember what an honor and responsibility it is to be entrusted to take care of others i hope that you can all reflect on the significance of your step today and make a commitment to yourself and the profession your white coat should serve as a symbol to your commitment to making significant contributions to health care and helping and excuse me helping people lead healthier lives welcome and we wish you much success um i would like now like to invite matisse patel honor council representative for the class of 2023 to the podium for his remarks [Applause] thank you dr train class of 2025 as you receive your white code this afternoon you will also be signing the pharmacist code of ethics this is an important tradition at musc and to pharmaceuticals across the united states the pharmacist code of ethics dates back to 1848 when the philadelphia college of pharmacy established the first code as a practice pharmacy has evolved throughout the years the american pharma association has published several renditions to this code the current pharmacist code of ethics was established in 1994 and is printed in your program it reads pharmacists are health professions who assist individuals in making the best use of medications this code prepared and supported by pharmacists is intended to state publicly the principles that form the fundamental basis of the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists these principles based on moral obligations and virtues are established to guide pharmacists in relationships with patients health professionals and society a pharmacist respects the conventional relationship between the patient and pharmacists a pharmacist promotes the good of every patient in a caring compassionate and confess and confidential manner a pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient a pharmacist acts with honesty and integrity in professional relationships a pharmacist maintains professional competence a pharmacist respects the values and abilities of colleagues and other health professionals a pharmacist serves individual community and societal needs a pharmacist seeks justice and distribution of health resources in a few moments you will sign the pharmacist code of ethics before receiving your white code as you do this reflect on all the hard work and dedication that brought you to this point and which will carry you through the next four years of pharmacy school it sure does go by fast reflect on those who came before you and the responsibility that comes with the doctor of pharmacy degree remember both the musc honor code that you have already signed and the pharmacist code of ethics that you are about to sign are not merely words they are codes of integrity principles and professionalism allow these two important codes to define your behavior as students and pharmacists i look forward to meeting each of you as you officially join us at the college of pharmacy now i invite dr hall and dr royal ford to present the white coats [Applause] good afternoon everyone before we begin i just want to say how much i have enjoyed getting to know the entering class this summer and over the course of this week when we got to be in person finally and i'm just really looking forward to building on those relationships over the next four years students please prepare for the hoodings or not hooding that's at the end sorry please prepare for the white coat ceremony that four years went really fast didn't it [Music] all right when i call your name please come forward to sign the code of ethics and then proceed to dr hall to receive your white coat courtney anderson courtney is from dawsonville georgia and attended the university of georgia zachary arcelona zachary is from miramar florida and attended nova southeastern university [Music] nicholas arose semena nicholas is from orlando florida and attended the university of central florida and valencia college [Music] [Applause] mackenzie boyd mackenzie is from loganville georgia and attended augusta university [Music] [Music] [Applause] shaheen brown [Laughter] shaheen is from somerville south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mary christine buener [Music] mary is from johns island south carolina and attended the university of north carolina greensboro casey carl [Music] casey is from charleston south carolina and attended trident technical college catherine castillo catherine is from columbia south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] [Music] [Music] danica chaney danica is from bluffton south carolina and attended tuscaloom university [Applause] janie cole janie is from middleton new jersey and attended the college of charleston [Applause] cassidy cross cassidy is from honea path south carolina and attended erskine college [Applause] chloe dawson chloe is from charleston south carolina and attended trident technical college [Applause] diane dela cruz diane is from stafford virginia and attended virginia commonwealth university [Music] [Applause] frederick dougherty frederick is from the ivory coast and attended indiana university at south bend [Applause] uh andrea naomi edwards andrea is from charleston south carolina and attended trident technical college [Applause] so [Applause] selena element selim is from charleston south carolina and attended try and technical college there [Applause] benjamin anthony emory benjamin is from lexington south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] roderick's tyrique fobs rodericks is from somerville south carolina and attended the college of charleston cameron fox cameron is from somerville south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Applause] dalton fox dalton is from somerville south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] so [Music] madeleine frelick madeline is from asheville north carolina and attended the university of north carolina at chapel hill [Applause] [Music] [Applause] haley grant haley is from charleston south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sydney herron sydney is from clover south carolina and attended the college of charleston [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] reagan hill reagan is from somerville south carolina and attended claflin university [Music] [Applause] dorothea monica hoffler is from stone mountain georgia and attended atlantic metropolitan state college [Applause] [Music] [Music] colin hux colin is from a north south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] victoria isgit victoria is from plant city florida and attended saint leo university [Music] [Applause] sidney jablonski sydney is from somerville south carolina and attended clemson university kaylani jackson okay lonnie jason kaylani's from goose creek south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] kawhia johnson kalia is from walterboro south carolina and attended the university of south carolina at beaufort [Applause] regine johnson regine is from charleston south carolina and attended claflin university [Applause] [Music] [Applause] haley king haley is from sacramento california and attended sonoma state university [Applause] [Applause] anderia lewis anderia is from marion south carolina and attended francis marion college or university sorry about that [Applause] [Music] sydney mcgrath sydney is from raleigh north carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] renee mayo renee is from columbia south carolina and attended the college of charleston [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] morgan marie mckinney morgan is from myrtle beach south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] [Music] sherry ivana mclamb sherry is from rock hill south carolina and attended jacksonville university [Applause] so [Applause] hey johanna mitchell ayanna is from adams run south carolina and attended the university of south carolina at beaufort [Applause] carly mitchell carly is from myrtle beach south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] jory morgan jory is from punta gorda florida and attended hillsboro community college [Applause] whitney morrison whitney is from tuscaloosa alabama and attended the ville state community college [Applause] [Music] [Applause] kyla mosher kyle is from somerville south carolina and attended trident technical college [Applause] so [Applause] kishayna mosey shanna is from winsboro south carolina and attended winthrop university [Applause] okay [Music] lois no faggiani lois is from north charleston south carolina and attended musc college of nursing [Applause] christian nicole nobles christian is from new bern north carolina and attended east carolina university [Applause] [Music] noah davis nussbaum noah is from monk's corner south carolina and attended charleston southern university [Applause] casey christine obermeyer casey is from greenville south carolina and she attended clemson university [Applause] [Music] ryan o'connell ryan is from claussen michigan and attended the university of north carolina at wilmington [Applause] [Applause] asia patel asia is from orangeburg south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] autumn philbeck autumn is from gaffney south carolina and attended the college of charleston [Music] [Applause] elizabeth elizabeth shawley is from florence south carolina and attended francis marion university [Applause] [Music] [Applause] pragya raj parohit is from augusta georgia and attended the university of south carolina at aitkin [Applause] [Music] [Applause] supreme cemetery cipri is from charleston south carolina and attended jadapur university [Music] [Applause] [Music] kaylee simon kaley is from mclean virginia and attended the pennsylvania state university [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mercena is from charles sorry charlotte north carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Music] [Music] taylor taylor is from orangeburg south carolina and attended orangeburg calhoun technical college [Applause] so sarah smith sarah is from merrell's inlet south carolina and attended clemson university [Applause] [Music] [Music] kayla michelle snipe kayla is from mount pleasant south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Applause] is from charlotte north carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] riley sumner riley is from anderson south carolina and attended anderson university [Applause] [Applause] banaya is from charleston south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] dana van halten dana is from somerville south carolina and attended the college of charleston [Applause] marin vandershaff i know i killed that and attended washington college [Applause] [Applause] shema varghese shayna is i only have maryland on here i'm sorry shaima i don't have a city and she went to school at montgomery college [Applause] [Music] david wallace david is from aitkin south carolina and attended anderson university [Music] bailey wells bailey is from anderson south carolina and attended university of south carolina and buford [Applause] [Applause] williams is from columbia south carolina and attended the university of south carolina [Applause] [Music] morgan wright morgan is from irma south carolina and attended anderson university [Applause] [Music] evan young evan is from oakboro north carolina and attended the university of north carolina charlotte [Applause] [Music] students please rise please join me in welcoming the class of 2025 medical university of south carolina college of pharmacy students please remain standing i'm going to call dr tran back to the podium to lead you in the pledge of professionalism all right i would like to invite all pharmacists who are here and those watching the ceremony on the live stream to stand as well as we recite the pledge of professionalism students please raise your right hand as we recite the pledge together as a student of pharmacy i believe there is a need to build and reinforce a professional identity founded on integrity ethical behavior and honor this development a vital process in my education will help ensure that i am true to the professional relationship i establish between myself and society is i become a member of the pharmacy community integrity must be an essential part of my everyday life and i must practice pharmacy with honesty and commitment to service to accomplish this goal of professional development i as a student of pharmacy should develop a sense of loyalty and duty to the profession of pharmacy by building a of community one able and willing to contribute to the well-being of others and one who enthusiastically accepts the responsibility and accountability for membership in the profession foster professional competency through lifelong learning i must strive for high ideals teamwork and unity within the profession in order to provide optimal patient care support my colleagues by actively encouraging personal commitment of the oath and code of ethics as set forth by the profession incorporate into my life and practice dedication to excellence this will require an ongoing reassessment of perfect professional values maintain the highest ideals and professional attributes to ensure and facilitate the conventional relationship required of the pharmaceutical caregiver the profession of pharmacy is one that demands adherence to a set of rigid ethical standards these high ideals are necessary to ensure the quality of care extended to the patients i serve as a student of pharmacy i believe this does not start with graduation rather it begins with my membership in this professional college community therefore i must strive to uphold these standards as i advance towards full membership in the profession of pharmacy students please be seated i would like to call dr hall back to the podium for his closing remarks this concludes the class of 2025 white coat ceremony i want to thank the families the faculty staff and friends who participated in today's ceremony here on campus and via live stream i would also like to thank the musc alumni association for sponsoring the white coats for the students this year congratulations again class of 2025. we look forward to seeing you in class next week have a great afternoon please remain seated for the recessional recession of the students [Applause] wow so [Music] [Music] [Music] again thank you for attending have a great afternoon [Applause] this is an easy one

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