{"id":21556,"date":"2016-10-09T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=21556"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:33:31","slug":"jared-derossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2016\/10\/09\/jared-derossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared DeRossi &#8217;16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Hometown: Dix Hills, New York<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major: Pharm.D.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Graduation Year: 2016&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhy did you choose URI?<\/strong><br \/>\nI chose URI for the promise of its&nbsp;state-of-the-art facilities\u2014the new pharmacy building was not yet completed at the&nbsp;time. URI&nbsp;delivered on its&nbsp;promise\u2014and then some. Also, aesthetically the campus was gorgeous &nbsp;I could &nbsp;picture spending my six&nbsp;years here without a doubt.<br \/>\n<strong>Why did you choose the Pharm.D. program?<\/strong><br \/>\nI chose the Pharm.D. program for a couple of reasons. URI has&nbsp;a great reputation in the field, and having the University of Rhode Island&nbsp;on your degree holds weight. I also liked&nbsp;the fact that Pharm.D. is&nbsp;a 0-6 program, so&nbsp;you do not need to reapply to pharmacy school after your first two years.<br \/>\n<strong>What made you decide to become a pharmacist? <\/strong><br \/>\nMy reason&nbsp;was a very personal one. A pharmacist actually saved my aunt\u2019s life by catching a potentially fatal drug interaction that a doctor made by mistake. I realized I wanted to be the one who&nbsp;could catch those mistakes and have that kind of impact.<br \/>\n<strong>What has been the best part of your studies in the College of Pharmacy?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe best part of my studies at the College of Pharmacy has definitely been working with the professors. They &nbsp; take a real&nbsp;interest in your development. Every single professor here at the College is&nbsp;very approachable .&nbsp;If you introduce yourself and make the effort for them to get to know you they are always there to help you.<br \/>\n<strong>What has been the best part of your entire URI experience?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe best part of my entire experience at URI is the community that exists on campus. There are always new people to meet. On a nice day you can walk onto the Quad and just jump into a game of Frisbee or a pick-up game of football. I have not run into an unfriendly person on this campus.<br \/>\n<strong>What do you consider the biggest strengths of your major or program?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe biggest strength of the Pharm.D. program has to be the faculty. They are all experts in their fields, not just teachers. They bring up their own research and explain everything to make sure&nbsp;you understand, and if &nbsp;you don&#8217;t, they are wiling to take time with you.<br \/>\n<strong>What was your favorite experiential education placement so far? <\/strong><br \/>\nMy favorite was a placement at&nbsp;Glen Cove Hospital back home in New York. I loved this rotation because it was something different.&nbsp;&nbsp;I work in retail, so everything was new and the staff there was really good at facilitating my learning. Also, I really liked going on rounds with the pharmacist to the different departments\u2014e.g., Psych, Osteo, Rehab, etc.\u2014and seeing how the role of the pharmacist is changing in today\u2019s world.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What has surprised you most about URI?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat has surprised me the most about URI was, oddly enough, the quality of the food at the dining halls. All my older cousins talked about how bad the food was at their schools, so obviously I was&nbsp;worried. On&nbsp;average the food is exceptional here and there are many options to choose from. When my parents come to visit they would rather go to my dining hall than a restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite was a placement at Glen Cove Hospital back home in New York. I loved this rotation because it was something different.  I work in retail, so everything was new and the staff there was really good at facilitating my learning. Also, I really liked going on rounds with the pharmacist to the different departments\u2014e.g., Psych, Osteo, Rehab, etc\u2014and seeing how the role of the pharmacist is changing in today\u2019s world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":21654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,1237,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-profiles","category-student-profiles-pharmd","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36034,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions\/36034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}