A co-curricular mentoring experience provides student pharmacists with areas for professional growth.

Background And Purpose: The Pharmacy Innovation Experience and Research (PIER) program aims to provide student pharmacists with co-curricular experiences that augment their essential soft skill training while recruiting underrepresented minority (URM) high school and undergraduate students to the pharmacy profession. The goal of the PIER mentoring program is to enhance the leadership, professionalism, teaching, and cultural sensitivity skills of student pharmacists through their participation in the program.

Educational Activity And Setting: During this pilot study, student pharmacists were trained to mentor high school and undergraduate students prior to the start of PIER.