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Pharmacy Team Leads Efforts For Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic For Underserved, Kyle Mcmillan, Christine R. Birnie Phd

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Completing Advanced Practice Placement Experience (APPE) rotations in the midst of a pandemic such as COVID-19 left many pharmacy students across the state and country with frequent changes and cancellations to their schedules. As stressful and anxiety- producing as that can be, it also creates some unique opportunities. During one of my last rotations, I had the opportunity to participate in a Service-Learning Elective at St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center in Rochester, N.Y., where we were able to design and execute the Center’s first COVID-19 vaccine clinic.

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Introduction To Leadership Development Using The "Five Practices" Framework In A Co-Curricular Pharmacy Student-Development Program, Sumyya Wase, Melinda E. Lull

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Introduction and leadership framework: With the increased expectation that pharmacy education should prepare students to become pharmacy leaders, schools of pharmacy are struggling to find ways to incorporate leadership topics. One way to incorporate content is to build co-curricular programs that introduce and practice leadership frameworks. The co-curricular program described in this study introduces leadership content using Kouzes and Posner's Student Leadership Challenge. Educational context and methods: Students were offered three workshops developed around the Five Practices framework. Each workshop provided background knowledge before engaging in self-reflection, discussion, and application activities. Students participated in a pre−/post-series assessment of leadership practices, …

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Wastewater Surveillance For Sars-Cov-2 On College Campuses: Initial Efforts, Lessons Learned, And Research Needs, Sasha Harris-Lovett, Kara L. Nelson, Paloma Beamer, Heather N. Bischel, Aaron Bivins, Andrea Bruder, Caitlyn Butler, Todd D. Camenisch, Susan K. De Long, Smruthi Karthikeyan, David A. Larsen, Katherine Meiediercks, Paula J. Mouser, Sheree Pagsuyoin, Sarah M. Prasek, Tyler S. Radniecki, Jeffrey L. Ram, D. Keith Roper, Hannah Safford, Samendra P. Sherchan, William Shuster, Thibault Stalder, Robert T. Wheeler, Katrina Smith Korfmacher

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Wastewater surveillance for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging approach to help identify the risk of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. This tool can contribute to public health surveillance at both community (wastewater treatment system) and institutional (e.g., colleges, prisons, and nursing homes) scales. This paper explores the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from initial wastewater surveillance efforts at colleges and university systems to inform future research, development and implementation. We present the experiences of 25 college and university systems in the United States that monitored campus wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 during the fall 2020 academic …

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Pharmacy Team Leads Efforts For Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic For Underserved, Kyle Mcmillan, Christine R. Birnie Phd

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications

Introduction To Leadership Development Using The "Five Practices" Framework In A Co-Curricular Pharmacy Student-Development Program, Sumyya Wase, Melinda E. Lull

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications