Four ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy students were recently featured on the front cover of the American Pharmacist Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists’ Student Pharmacy magazine.
The pharmacy students on the front cover are Alexa Bancroft of Cleveland, Tennessee, Kelsey Brimer of Hiwassee, Virginia, Dawnna Metcalfe of Bluefield, Virginia, and Andrew Dickerson of Chattanooga, Tennessee. All students are set to graduate in 2021.
The theme of the photoshoot in the November and December 2019 magazine was “Personal & Team Development” and featured the students on the ETSU Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course while completing team activities. Those are the photos that were included in the magazine’s featured article called “Becoming a Successful Team,” by Crystal Atwell, the APhA director of student and new practitioner development in Washington, D.C.
“As future pharmacists, teamwork is an essential skill,” said Dickerson, president of the college’s APhA-ASP chapter. “We have to be able to rely on each other in order to achieve the ultimate goal. This applies to both our organization and for us as members of an interprofessional health care team. Overall, I think the photoshoot turned out really great and represents our chapter and college well.”
The featured photos were taken by Auggie Bui, another pharmacy student who is graduating in May. He is also a member of the college’s APha-ASP chapter and serves on one of the organization’s Communications National Standing Committee with four other student pharmacists from across the country.
Metcalfe also received a singular feature in a separate article on her accomplishments as part of APhA-ASP’s Generation Rx committee to save lives through naloxone training. The same committee has ranked 1st or 2nd in the country for the last six years.
The APhA-ASP’s website describes that the mission of the academy is to be a collective voice of student pharmacists, to provide opportunities for professional growth, to improve patient care and to envision and advance the future of pharmacy as a whole.
