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Seeing new UNMC students come in to the Student Life Center for orientation — adult, highly-educated, pre-professionals — isn’t too removed from a scene of kindergarteners on the first day of school. All the universal feelings are right there on their faces:<\/p>\n

Who will I eat lunch with today? Which of all these new people might end up being my friends?<\/p>\n

We’ve all been the “new kid” wondering how all of this is going to go. Yes, even future physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other health and science professionals.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great, in that first year, to see a familiar face among the older “kids” who seem to have it all figured out?<\/p>\n

That’s the idea behind an innovative mentoring model being pioneered by the UNMC College of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n

In it, Pharm.D. students and faculty are grouped into “families.” Why?<\/p>\n

“Our previous advisory system wasn’t always personal,” said Kristen Cook, Pharm.D., clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice.<\/p>\n

In pharmacy families, each faculty advisor is grouped with two or three students per year level, P1-4. First-year students are mentored not just by their faculty advisor, but also informally, by the older students. You know, the folks who have survived that first year, and now know a thing or two.<\/p>\n

“When I was a student,” Dr. Cook said, “I had no idea who the P3s and P4s were.” Never mind being able to “know” them enough to ask for advice.<\/p>\n

But the pharmacy mentoring program gets the family together – or, rather, the P1s do. Yes, it’s the job of the first-year students to arrange family meetings. That can be a tough thing to do, especially for first-year students – but, we are learning networking skills, here.<\/p>\n

“It forces them to put themselves out there,” Dr. Cook said.<\/p>\n

These get-togethers are informal by design. They are often off campus, at a happy hour or restaurant. “I am a big proponent of icebreakers,” Dr. Cook said. She hypothesizes that students who get to know her outside of an official setting are less likely to hesitate with real questions.<\/p>\n

Same with their peers. “We aren’t necessarily going to be your ‘friend’ group,” Dr. Cook said. “But you start to realize this is a professional group that can help you.”<\/p>\n

It’s a network. You know someone. <\/p>\n

This is the second academic year that pharmacy families are getting together once a semester. Initial surveys said the program has been well received.<\/p>\n

It’s nice, as a new kid, to see a familiar face.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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