Baptist Medical Center Downtown
Nicolas Pellegrino Pharm.D.
The student had this to say about Dr. Pellegrino:
Dr. Pellegrino provided me with a valuable and diverse learning experience during my rotation. I had the opportunity to shadow multiple areas of the pharmacy, including the IV room, a knee surgery, a heme/onc pharmacist, and even observe a code blue. One of the most impactful aspects of this rotation was learning how to properly work up patients—starting from just three patient work-ups to eventually managing 40 patient work-ups, which significantly improved my clinical and time management skills. He helped me with my patient case and gave me constructive criticism on how to improve the presentation. He was also patient with me when we are talking about multiple topics on different disease states and other pharmacy-related topics.
Brief bio or Site description
I went to UF Jacksonville campus for pharmacy school. I did my PGY1 at Baptist Downtown. After residency I spent a few months as an evening central pharmacist at Baptist South until the current position I have opened up. I am an Internal medicine pharmacist. The floor I cover has internal medicine, general surgery, and bariatric surgery patients.
What is your or your sites philosophy on educating students and/or providing pharmacy services?
I try to tailor the learning experience to the goals of the student. Here at Baptist, we try to give the students every experience possible (going to codes, watching surgeries/bed side procedures, mixing drugs, etc.) to get the most of the rotations.
What is a fun fact about you or the site?
My roommates and I taught ourselves how to juggle during undergrad and eventually ended up getting paid to do a few events as jugglers.