PharmD Required Courses
Our PharmD curriculum is designed to prepare you to be “practice ready” upon graduation and act as caring, ethical, respectful and scholarly pharmacy practitioners while serving as leaders in the advancement of the pharmacy profession.
Pharmacy Electives (8 credits)
Elective courses provide students with an opportunity to enhance their knowledge, skills and professional attitude beyond that provided by the core curriculum. Students entering in the Fall 2024 term or later are required to take 8 elective credit hours, Carefully review the elective policy here and PharmD electives.Pharmacy Electives are taken in the P2 and P3 years, and must be completed before the start of the P4 clinical rotations year.
Students completing a dual/collaborative degree will have their 8 PharmD elective requirements met by the other master’s degree program.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
1) Patient/Pharmaceutical Care: Provide high quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care that is appropriate and effective, in cooperation with patients, prescribers, and other members of the interprofessional health care team.
2) Medical and Science Foundations: Demonstrate mastery of the core knowledge and skills corresponding to established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge. This includes competency in those areas specifically supporting high quality pharmacy practice.
3) Practice Based Learning and Improvement: Evaluate practice and care, and promote continuous improvement in one’s own patient care and pharmacy services.
4) Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Demonstrate effective interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills with patients, families, the public as well as other health care providers, adapting to socioeconomic and cultural factors as well as situational applications as appropriate.
5) Professionalism: Evidence exemplary professional, ethical and legal behaviors, complying with all federal, state and local laws and regulations related to pharmacy practice.
6) Systems-Based Practice and Management: Demonstrate an awareness of, and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, effectively utilizing systems and systems of care to provide cost-effective, optimal care.
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