Comments on: Interview: Hieu Tran, PharmD [Pharmacy School Dean]

By: huong Nguyen

huong Nguyen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:17:39 +0000

Well, I am pre-pharmacy and SUCOP candidate for class of 2013. I came to school on Fri Nov 6, 2009 for an interview. I found that this school has a very good potential to be accredited. The staff, faculty, and students are sweet and friendly; the school is surrounded by a peaceful atmosphere. I don’t see why I wouldn’t go here to strive my goal of going to be a pharmacist. The Dean and Assistant Dean are very helpful and understanding. THerefore, I don’t understand why there are some negative posts about Dean Tran. He is going to be successful and so is his school.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:19:30 +0000

I’m a current student at LECOM and also a former student of Dr. Trans’. Dr. Tran as a faculty and a chair brought light to the success and development of the school. He is great lectures, has compassion for teaching and interacts with the students in the classroom making everyone welcomed for discussion. Dr. Tran’s teaching was practical and very applicable to the clinical practice once we graduate from pharmacy school. He always kept my attention and I was looking forward to this classes. I liked how simply he applies basics of kinetics to more complicated cases, indicating that in order to advance further you need have a foundation for the basic principles first and from there everything comes naturally.
I strongly believe that pharmacy will evolve into a more valuable and reliable profession if we incorporate research into the curriculum. This is what makes the pharmacy profession different and gives us the opportunity to be one of the more meaningful parts of a hospital as an entity. I admire Dr. Trans’ philosophy supporting the establishment of the new pharmacy school.
The interview is very helful for prospective students deciding to enter pharmacy school

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:21:22 +0000

I’m a student at LECOM & I only had Dr. Tran for a few classes, but I really liked him. After he left the kinetics class kinda turned into a joke.

By: cory

cory — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:02:55 +0000

I just read this article twice. I plan on reading the other postings by Mr. Tran. Iam believing that this article is to educate pre-pharm students(myself) about the “school” and for me it did. I was planning to apply only to 2 other pharm schools next year. I now have another option. So, in summary, thank all of you who took the time to comment on this post. Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:41:45 +0000

One goal of the article was to introduce the new school and shed some light on the accreditation process. It seems to meet that goal.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:46:51 +0000

I found this interview to be more an advertisement for Sullivan University’s program than about Pharmacy school or the life of a Pharmacy professional. Not up to the standards of SDN or journalism for that matter.

By: cassandra

cassandra — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:04:00 +0000

I found the interview interesting. I am always looking at other options for Pharmacy School, and even though I live in texas I am looking at out of state schools So I found it helpful.

By: Okram

Okram — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:03:54 +0000

I am a former (now graduated) LECOM pharmacy student and I have had the pleasure of being in several of Dr. Tran’s classes there. He is one of the most compassionate, intelligent and caring people I’ve ever met. Not only was he accessible anytime but he truly cared about pharmacy education. I think that he is actually part of LECOM’s success. Many students just stopped paying attention to him because of his accent or claimed he was hard to understand – how foolish. If you are to succeed in the medical field, be prepared to expand your horizons. Not every doctor will be American born and have 100% mastery of the English language. In fact, medicine is becoming increasingly diverse and unless you strive to bring down the barriers to communication yourself, you will never succeed. I am quite proud of Dr. Tran’s achievements and can say he has my full support.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:09:07 +0000

Well, I am sure that he can’t please everyone. I have certain professor that I really like but some of my friends totally dislike. On the other hand, I have this one professor that I can’t stand and some of my friends thinks that she is awesome. If you can please everyone, something is not real there. lol

By: tim

tim — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:19:21 +0000

I am a former student of his at LECOM. He was the least liked faculty position and his classes were a joke. He about ran the school into the ground, he could not work well in groups. Should be interesting to follow this attempt.