Rural India has a serious shortage of healthcare professionals with suboptimal healthcare outcomes. Vikas Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has initiated a program that provides experiential learning for PharmD students that in the long-term should have a positive impact on the rural population.
South Carolina has the fourth fastest growing Latino population in the nation. In the Southeast, the healthcare provider population typically does not mirror the growing ethnic diversity of the patient community. Because the increase in Latino residents is recent, the cultural norms and health beliefs of the Latino population often are not well understood by…
Most of us, at least in India, end up in the PharmD program primarily because they did not get into medical school. We have no idea when we start PharmD program, what it is and what its relevance to real life. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to work in a hospital setting during my second…