School boasts largest number
of internships
By Kurt Esposito
Summer
Editor
Through a new initiative to obtain more internships
for its students, the School of Pharmacy has its largest amount of students
ever interning with industrial pharmaceutical companies.
Frank Brown, pharmacy industrial internship manager,
said before, the school did not have an organized effort in obtaining
internships for students, and the few that did, had internships with
either retail pharmacy schools or with hospitals.
Laura Rearick, a junior in the School of Pharmacy,
said the industrial internships are important because it shows students
where there jobs will take them when they graduate and offers experience
not found in retail or hospital internships.
"This opens an entire new area of experience for
the students," she said.
Brown said obtaining these internships for the
students involved making partnerships with the companies. Many of the
internships were acquired by showing those companies what their program
has to offer and contacting Purdue alumni in those companies.
"In most (pharmaceutical) companies there are Purdue
pharmacy graduates that understand the value of a Purdue pharmacy degree,"
he said.
He said the students are under no obligation to
continue working with the companies after they graduate.
He said he hopes by the summer of 2003 to have
80 students in summer internships with industrial pharmaceutical companies.
Some of the companies that the school's students
have internships with include Eli Lilly and Co., NexMed, Inc. and Bristol-Myer
Squibb.
Anjly Sheth, a senior in the School of Pharmacy,
said, "I think it’s a big advantage to students. It means making
the students even better, getting them more experience, making people
succeed when they go into the workforce."
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