Capital City Times

For pharmacy graduates, practical training is often the first opportunity to move beyond academic knowledge and understand how the profession operates across different environments. Nada Radi used that period to gain experience across community pharmacy, major hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry before completing her Pharmacy degree at the University of Jordan.

Radi trained at Jordan University Hospital and Queen Alia Military Hospital, completed community pharmacy training and later joined JPM, the Jordanian Pharmaceutical Company, as an intern. Rather than concentrating her early experience in one setting, her training covered several parts of Jordan’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sector.

The distinction is important because each environment demands something different from a pharmacy trainee.

Community pharmacy places students close to patients and the everyday use of medicines. Hospital pharmacy introduces a more clinical environment, where medication decisions form part of a larger system involving pharmacists, physicians and other healthcare professionals. Pharmaceutical companies operate differently again, with greater emphasis on structured processes, quality requirements, documentation and the commercial realities surrounding medicines.

Moving between these settings requires adaptation.

Radi completed that training while maintaining a 3.93 university GPA and ranking among the top 10 students in her Pharmacy class. Her practical development therefore took place alongside a consistently strong academic record rather than after it.

There were signs of that performance outside routine training as well. In 2025, Radi was selected to represent the University of Jordan’s Faculty of Pharmacy at the Arab Toxicology Competition in Saudi Arabia. Her team ultimately took first place against participating universities from across the Middle East.

The competition and her placements represent different forms of pharmacy education. One tested scientific knowledge and reasoning competitively, while the others introduced the daily standards and responsibilities of professional environments.

For someone at the beginning of a pharmaceutical career, that distinction matters. Fresh graduates rarely have years of employment through which companies can evaluate them. Their university performance, internships, clinical placements and extracurricular achievements consequently provide much of the available evidence about how they have approached their development.

Radi’s record during this period has been characterized by consistency across those areas. She performed academically, sought exposure across different pharmacy settings and participated in competitive scientific work rather than relying on the degree alone.

Her interests now include pharmaceutical research and pharmacovigilance, fields that would represent another transition from training into specialized professional work.

The next stage will inevitably be different. Excellence as a trainee does not automatically translate into excellence as an employee, where responsibilities and expectations increase substantially. But training is where those habits first become visible.

For Nada Radi, a varied record across hospitals, community pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry training and scientific competition has provided a substantial starting point. How she applies that foundation in her first full time pharmaceutical role will define the next chapter.