Publication Date
8-1-2023
Abstract
When Dr. Jessica Burchette joined Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy faculty in 2012, she was no stranger to the college or its mission.
Burchette had the distinction of being a member of the college’s inaugural graduating class in 2010.
Returning to the college as a faculty member has been rewarding for Burchette, who enjoys connecting with her students in the classroom and at her practice site at Holston Valley Medical Center, where she works with interdisciplinary inpatient family medicine teams.
“When I’m in my practice site at Holston Valley with the students on their fourth-year rotation, I’m able to reinforce what they know and show them how all the knowledge they’ve gained over those three years in the classroom are coming to fruition,” Burchette said. “They’re able to use that with their patients and they can really see what their role is and how they can make a difference in patients’ lives.”
Burchette enjoys her work with patients and says the experience helps her better prepare student pharmacists for the ever-evolving needs in health care.
“Medicine and health care turn over so quickly, and so the information that we teach in the classroom could be outdated before the students even graduate,” she said.
Burchette said she strives to prepare student pharmacists to be lifelong learners and to learn to keep with and digest new information to meet the needs of their patients.
“To use the old adage, we want to ‘teach them how to fish,’” she said.
Document Type
News Article
