Anna Crider, a UM senior and first-year pharmacy student, has accepted an offer to intern this summer at the Mayo Clinic in its clinical pharmacy department in Rochester, Minnesota. Photo by UM School of Pharmacy.
OXFORD, Miss. – Anna Crider, a first-year pharmacy student at the University of Mississippi, has accepted a pharmacy inpatient internship through the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic and St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester partner to give interns exposure to clinical pharmacy while they gain a better understanding of the pharmacist’s role and intervention in the hospital setting.
“The coursework and the rigor of it at our pharmacy school have really made me confident in my ability to say ‘Yes, I can compete on a national level across all pharmacy schools,'” said Crider, a native of Brentwood, Tennessee.
During the 10-week internship, Crider will spend time collecting medical histories of patients and work under pharmacists in the central dispensing unit.
Crider’s academic and thesis adviser, Erin Holmes, credits this internship offer to the extensive education at the UM School of Pharmacy.
“The Mayo Clinic pharmacy internship is, without question, one of the most prestigious summer internship programs in the country,” Holmes said. “For one of our students to be selected for this internship validates the high standards expected in our program and quality of our training.
“Anna is truly deserving of this opportunity, as she is extremely bright, very hardworking, has a passion for learning and is always seeking ways to grow professionally.”
Crider is a member of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, where she is working on her thesis, “Mississippi Pharmacists’ Perceptions and Knowledge of ADHD in Children.”
Aside from her role as a first-year pharmacy student, Crider works as a pharmacy technician in the Oxford community. She is also active in community service organizations such as Relay for Life and RebelTHON.
A senior, Crider is on track to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences in May. She plans to pursue a critical-care pharmacy role in a clinical setting after completing her residency.
“I hope to be able to serve patients and be an advocate for them in their time of need,” she said.
For more information on the UM School of Pharmacy, call 662-915-7267 or visit http://pharmacy.olemiss.edu/.