This month, we are also joined at Plain City Druggist by James Wilson a fourth-year pharmacy student from The Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy.

In a previous post, we introduced you to Patrick Wang, who is doing a rotation with Joe in Plain City this month, and now we’d like you to meet James.

James will graduate in May 2022 with his PharmD degree and will then take the test to become a registered pharmacist. James will be with Meghan and the staff here in Plain City throughout August, so please stop by and meet him while he is here.

Here is what James tells us about himself:

Hello! My name is James Wilson and I am from Norwalk, OH. I am a fourth-year pharmacy student with the Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy, and I will be the student pharmacist with Meghan the month of August.

I have been with Ohio State for eight years (Go Bucks!) and earned a Bachelor’s in chemistry during the first four years. Originally, I had no idea what I wanted to do when I came to Ohio State; all I knew was that I had a passion for chemistry and that was the degree I was going to get. About two years into getting my degree, I still had no idea what I wanted to do with chemistry. It was not until a friend suggested pharmacy to me that I made a decision to find out more.  The more I looked into pharmacy as a career the more excited I got. I finally knew what I could do with my chemistry knowledge.

Once I knew pharmacy was the thing for me, I quickly applied for every pharmacy technician spot in Columbus. Soon, I was hired by the CVS on campus and loved the fast-paced environment that the store had. I would end up working there for three years, leaving near the end of my first year in pharmacy school for a research role in a computational drug design lab at the college.

My plans after pharmacy school are still very much up in the air. I very much enjoy emergency medicine. I learned this after shadowing and completing a rotation in the emergency department. It is a fast-paced field with patients presenting with a wide variety of conditions that, as students, we are not exposed to as much. As for my other options after school, I have been heavily debating if I want to complete a PhD and this was sparked on by my research lab. Whatever I decide, I know I will be helping people because of my passion for pharmacy.

That was a little bit about myself. I look forward to meeting everyone at Plain City Druggist this month and learning all that I can about independent pharmacy!