Prescribing history

By April M. Silvaggio  

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 6:43 p.m. (0)

So is Joshua Nesbitt.

This week, the two South Carolina residents joined the 78-member inaugural class of Presbyterian College’s new School of Pharmacy.

An estimated 231 applicants were initially interviewed to be part of the School of Pharmacy’s first class, with 132 ultimately accepted, officials said.

The School of Pharmacy is housed in a newly renovated 55,000-square-foot building in downtown Clinton that was built as the Mary Musgrove Hotel and purchased in 1975 by the Presbyterian Home of South Carolina.

For years, the landmark on Broad Street served as an assisted-living facility known as Frampton Hall.

Triangle Construction Co. of Greenville, which built the Greenville County Museum of Art and the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, completed renovations on the property this summer.

It features two lecture amphitheaters for 85-90 students, five classrooms outfitted with the latest technology, an area with two state-of-the-art simulation mannequins and seven teaching and research laboratories.

Dougall, of Columbia, holds a degree in chemistry from the University of the South. Having earned her undergraduate degree at a small liberal arts college, she said she was looking for a graduate program in pharmacy that offered her that same sense of community she had found in Tennessee.

“Preparing to do my work in pharmacy, I spent a year at (another school) where there were 300 students in one course,” she said. “I was not comfortable with that. I’m much more comfortable at a small school setting where the professors know my name.”

Admittedly, she said she was nervous about enrolling in a new program.

“It was a little nerve-wracking,” Dougall said. “But PC has a good reputation. And the deans told us what they were looking for in the professors. They were looking for the right people.”

Nesbitt, a native of Arizona who lives in Aiken and is a graduate of the University of South Carolina-Aiken, said as he began checking out PC’s new pharmacy program, it simply stood out to him.

Even before it had a building.

It was the School of Pharmacy’s mission – to prepare pharmacists who care for their communities – and its people who sold Nesbitt on coming to PC, he said.

“When I came here it was completely different because they didn’t have a pharmacy school building you could see,” he said. “They didn’t have facilities. They didn’t have anything except the primary campus. But they had such a large dream that this town is supporting.”

What seemed the goal of the school’s leaders appealed to him.

“It wasn’t to have a bunch of students,” he said. “It wasn’t to get the most funding. It was to actually be such an influence on society so that we may actually help people in a way that they really need and also to have a relationship with them.”

The estimated annual cost for a student attending Presbyterian College’s School of Pharmacy, including tuition, fees, books and housing is $40,300.

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