Friday, April 15, 2005

April 15, 2005

Wilmington, N.C. – In the fall of 2005, the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Student Health Services will become a teaching facility for the Cape Fear Community College’s Pharmacy Technology program.

Tammie Davis, the lead instructor for the Pharmacy Technology program at CFCC, originally contacted SHS to have students work at the health center. At the time, the health center was too small. Now located on the second floor of Westside Hall, the health center has more space, making the partnership possible.

SHS Pharmacy Manager Ann Roth decided to become a preceptor for the pharmacy technician students because she believes teaching is a vital part of the health center’s mission, even in areas that are traditionally thought of as non-academic in scope.

The program allows the UNCW Pharmacy to contribute to the education of students in the field while providing medication and drug usage education to UNCW student patients at the same time.

UNCW pharmacy will work with one student per rotation. The rotations last for five weeks each and three students will rotate through the pharmacy during the fall semester. Students will work at the pharmacy at 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Pharmacy Clinical courses place emphasis on effective communication with personnel, developing proper employee attitudes, and dispensing medications.

The program prepares students to assist pharmacists in duties that a technician can legally perform and to function within the boundaries developed by the pharmacist and the employment agency.

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Media contact: Ann Roth, UNCW pharmacy manager, 910/962-3016 or Tammie Davis, Pharmacy Technology program lead instructor, 910/362-7093