WLWT: Pharmacy students join vaccine effort
Pharmacy profession leading the way in the vaccine effort, and students assist
Hundreds of pharmacy students from the University of Cincinnati’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy were already trained to administer immunizations before the pandemic; and many are now on the front lines in COVID-19 vaccine clinics across Greater Cincinnati.
In a segment on WLWT’s Channel 5 News, fourth year students Henry Agyeman and Katie Greis comment on their experiences and pharmacy faculty member Mike Hegener describes the training pharmacy students receive.
“Their education and learning is really pushing patient care and health care forward,” says Hegener, who oversees the college’s clinical skills laboratory where students first learn to immunize on skin pads and then on each other.
Read more about the impact pharmacy and pharmacy students are making in the vaccination effort.
Featured image at top of fourth-year pharmacy student Kyle Schuchter at the UC Health drive-thru vaccine clinic. Photo/Kelley/UC Creative + Brand.
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