USF Magazine Spring 2013

Volume 55 | Number 1

Spotlight

Health

Pharmacy Advances

| USF Health

With her grades and work experience, Morgen Schmitt could have had her pick of pharmacy schools, but she doesn’t hesitate when asked about her decision to enter the Tampa-based USF Health College of Pharmacy’s first class.

“I looked at a lot of programs, and, hands down, USF’s had the best curriculum,” says Schmitt, now in her second year of the four-year USF Doctor of Pharmacy degree program.

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Do You See What I See?

| USF News

It isn’t your typical classroom. But for students in the colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health at USF, the Contemporary Art Museum may be the place where they fine-tune their observation skills.

A new interdisciplinary program, led by Megan Voeller, associate curator of education at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, is teaching USF Health students skills in critical art observation — skills transferable to clinical contexts that may lead to better observations and more accurate diagnoses, according to research.

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