The UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy has achieved a new milestone as the inaugural cohort of first-year PharmD students at the College’s Nashville and Knoxville locations have successfully completed their first year of studies. Previously, PharmD students were required to spend their first year on the Memphis campus before completing their studies at the respective other Tennessee campuses. However, in fall 2023, the college started offering first-year programming in Knoxville and Nashville. The expansion allows students to complete all four years of pharmacy education on the Nashville and Knoxville College of Pharmacy campuses, eliminating the need for many students to relocate after the first year.
Training pharmacists for four years across all three Tennessee campuses enables the college to promote healthier communities statewide. However, on a personal level, for first-year pharmacy students like Iman Haurami and Ethan Hathcock, the ability to take their first-year classes close to home allowed them to make a positive impact in their communities while training to be pharmacists.
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital has significantly impacted Nashville native Iman Haurami, a first-year College of Pharmacy student at the Nashville Campus. As a child, she herself was a patient at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. This experience fostered a passion for pediatric medicine. After getting a job as a pharmacy technician at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, everything came full circle, “It means a lot to me to be able to give back and be working where I used to be a patient myself,” says Haurami.
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