First Year (P1)
This course introduces students to how the pharmaceutical, chemical and biological sciences relate to each other and the practice of Pharmacy. Experience gained from this course allows students to comprehend how fundamental sciences integrate to form a foundation for pharmacy practice.
This course introduces students to concepts in cell biology and pathophysiology that form a foundation for understanding the mechanisms by which drugs act or intervene with disease processes. Knowledge gained from this course sets a foundation for understanding disease development and progression in subsequent courses.
This course builds upon student knowledge of biochemistry to explore applications of biochemistry to diseases, drug actions and drug development. Knowledge gained from this course is used as a foundation for understanding the rationale for the therapeutic uses of drugs.
This course introduces students to pharmacy laws and regulations and as a result, students are able to carry out their intern duties in accordance with professional guidelines and regulatory standards. The course also explores how to apply ethical and professional principles in various healthcare settings.
This course is the second of a two-course series designed to help students develop skills to communicate effectively with patients, caregivers and healthcare providers to facilitate the achievement of optimal patient outcomes. These courses will cover all aspects of professional communication, including gathering, organizing, conveying and documenting patient-related information. The courses emphasize a patient-centered approach to communication and cover social factors such as health literacy, barriers to communication and cultural competency. These courses will foster and develop professional behaviors and attitudes in pharmacy practice. The second semester builds on concepts learned in the first semester, and focuses on obtaining a medication history, providing patient education for prescription medications, motivational interviewing, as well as further developing a patient-specific assessment and plan which is then communicated in a verbal or written format with other healthcare providers. The course integrates concepts learned in Self Care Pharmacotherapy 2 and Pharmacotherapy 1 including prescription medications. This active learning course consists of a one-hour didactic session and a three-hour small group session weekly.
This course is the second of a two-course series designed to help students develop skills to communicate effectively with patients, caregivers and healthcare providers to facilitate the achievement of optimal patient outcomes. These courses will cover all aspects of professional communication, including gathering, organizing, conveying and documenting patient-related information. The courses emphasize a patient-centered approach
This course will prepare the student to be able to 1) collect appropriate patient data to make an assessment for self-care (e.g. nonprescription products), 2) conduct a patient-centered assessment, and 3) design, implement, evaluate and adjust a patient-centered self-care plan.
Course provides students with the tactics necessary to perform dispensing duties in most pharmacy settings and systems. The fundamentals of the practice of drug information are introduced so that students can retrieve, evaluate, and utilize professional and lay information in a critical and scientific manner that enhances their practice of pharmacy. The pharmacy practice and drug information fundamentals are presented to the students with the context of the history of pharmacy and contemporary pharmacy practice.
This course introduces students to biophysical and chemical considerations in the development of pharmaceutical products and compounding of various dosage forms. Principles of parenteral drug preparation and administration are learned. Dosage forms are discussed in the context of formulation and delivery, and laboratory exercises include compounding of sterile and non-sterile preparations. Knowledge gained from this course will allow the student to understand formulation development and optimize dosage forms for individual patients.
This course explores the modern drug discovery and development processes and utilizes clinical examples to teach students to rationalize and predict how the chemical structure of a drug dictates its medicinal properties and routes of metabolism.
Using nervous systems as a model, the course introduces students to the mechanisms by which drugs produce therapeutic effects and side effects. The mechanisms of drug toxicity and how toxicity can be prevented and treated will be explored.
This two-year series of courses encompasses students’ efforts in introductory pharmacy practice experiences and interprofessional training. The experiential component integrates pharmacy-specific abilities learned in other courses, and applies them in service learning activities, over-the-counter medication counseling, basic community and health-system pharmacy activities, and in collaboration with medical practitioners. Students are evaluated on communication, professionalism and their continuous professional development. The interprofessional component provides students with opportunities to practice resolving issues in team care (role clarification, team communication, conflict resolution, etc). A portfolio documents the students’ increasing proficiency in parallel with the curriculum.
This 7 course series covers core clinical sciences includes pathophysiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics of a range of system based physiological conditions. Standards of care, controversial issues, pharmacotherapy advances, and patient management are covered. Active learning strategies and patient care-related skills activities are incorporated. Courses in this academic year:
- Gastrointestinal, Pulmonology, Dermatology, Opthamology, and Otic Diseases (Pharmacotherapy 1)
Second Year (P2)
This course is an application of medicinal chemistry concepts using clinically relevant case studies, designed to examine mechanism(s) of drug action and resistance, structure activity relationships, and other concepts related to the pharmacology and clinical use of modern drugs.
This course provides students with a conceptual, working knowledge of drug disposition in the human body and how drug dosing corresponds with the time course of drug concentrations in patients. The influence of physiological and pathophysiological factors on drug concentrations and resulting pharmacological effects is considered. Knowledge gained from this course allows students to assess the appropriateness of drug dosing regimens in patients, calculate appropriate dosing of drugs in specific patients in order to achieve therapeutic goals, and anticipate whether drug doses should be adjusted in the presence of disease states or other drugs.
This course provides an introduction and step-wise approach to evidence-based medicine. Knowledge gained from this course allows students to understand published medical studies, commonly-used statistical tests, and their application to clinical practice. Students demonstrate this ability by critically appraising journal articles, answering short drug information questions, presenting a journal club and writing a drug information paper.
This course introduces students to health care delivery systems and discusses the social, political, and economic factors that influence these systems. The course draws upon core principles of epidemiology, health care economics, public health practice, and health policy development and implementation. As a result of this course, students will be able to link various medication use systems to their role in the development and participation in health promotion, disease prevention and public health policy.
This course prepares students to understand the multiple processes influencing the decision-making capacity of patients, clinicians, and regulatory bodies. This includes the design, implementation, evaluation and adjustment of patient-centered pharmacy care plans, patient reasoning, factors influencing clinicians, the logic process for Evidence Based Medicine applications, and policy / regulatory issues. The course will be taught using various teaching methods including but not limited to, seminars, case-based discussions, small group discussions, and debates. .
This two-year series of courses encompasses students’ efforts in introductory pharmacy practice experiences and interprofessional training. The experiential component integrates pharmacy-specific abilities learned in other courses, and applies them in service learning activities, over-the-counter medication counseling, basic community and health-system pharmacy activities, and in collaboration with medical practitioners. Students are evaluated on communication, professionalism and their continuous professional development. The interprofessional component provides students with opportunities to practice resolving issues in team care (role clarification, team communication, conflict resolution, etc). A portfolio documents the students’ increasing proficiency in parallel with the curriculum.
This 7 course series covers core clinical sciences includes pathophysiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics of a range of system based physiological conditions. Standards of care, controversial issues, pharmacotherapy advances, and patient management are covered. Active learning strategies and patient care-related skills activities are incorporated.
Courses in this academic year:
- Nephrology and Cardiovascular I (Pharmacotherapy 2)
- Endocrinology, Gynecology, and Urology (Pharmacotherapy 3)
- Cardiology II and Infectious Diseases I (Pharmacotherapy 4)
- Psychiatry and Neurology (Pharmacotherapy 5)
During this course students will apply their ability to retrieve, evaluate, and utilize professional information in a critical and scientific manner as well as their ability to communicate this information to other health care providers effectively. This is a self-paced course in which students independently determine how to best solve a pharmacy-related question using scientific principles, and present their findings to a large audience.
Third Year (P3)
This course introduces quantitative methods and applications for the clinical and economic evaluation of health care interventions, including pharmaceuticals. Concepts covered are comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness, efficiency, affordability, value, and coverage decision-making. As a result of this course students are able to analyze formulary decisions by weighing clinical effectiveness, safety, and costs; critically evaluate economic literature; and compare health care interventions on clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes.
The course provides an introduction to management in community pharmacy practice, hospital pharmacy management, and other business and management skills needed to be successful in a variety of different practice settings. Particular attention is given to key business relationships; business planning; market analysis; forms of ownership; service offerings; competitive strategies; operational issues such as promotion and marketing, customer service, financial, inventory and human resource management, drug plan and reimbursement challenges; establishment and management of Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services; technology and informatics; and professional advocacy to support pharmacy entrepreneurship.
This course provides students with an understanding of how genetic factors influence drug disposition, response, and adverse effects. Knowledge gained from this course enhances students’ ability to apply genetic information to pharmacy practice and select the most appropriate therapeutic intervention(s).
During this course students will apply their ability to retrieve, evaluate, and utilize professional information in a critical and scientific manner as well as their ability to communicate this information to other health care providers effectively. This is a self-paced course in which students independently determine how to best solve a pharmacy-related question using scientific principles, and present their findings to a large audience.
This 7 course series covers core clinical sciences includes pathophysiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics of a range of system based physiological conditions. Standards of care, controversial issues, pharmacotherapy advances, and patient management are covered. Active learning strategies and patient care-related skills activities are incorporated. Courses in this academic year:
- Infectious Diseases II (Pharmacotherapy 6)
- Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Transplantation (Pharmacotherapy 7)
Students are placed in a 6-week, full-time (40 hours per week) patient care experience in which they can begin to apply their didactic knowledge. This advanced IPPE is the culmination of the introductory pharmacy practice program where students demonstrate competency to meet pre-APPE core performance domains and abilities which include 1) patient assessment; 2) medication information; 3) identification and assessment of drug related problems; 4) ethical, professional and legal behavior; 5) communication abilities; 6) counseling patients; 7) drug information analysis and literature research, and 8) health and wellness.
Course provides introductory content about informatics topics including a working understanding of knowledge systems for students to be able to manage medication use systems to optimize patient and population outcomes. Students learn to use tools to assess and address change, increase competitiveness, improve quality, and optimize patient services.
This course is designed to be a capstone that integrates essential core pharmacy practice topics. The philosophy of this course is to facilitate student learning and hold students accountable for prior learning in an integrated manner using complex patient scenarios. It is designed to mimic clinical experiences encountered during the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience rotations that occur the following semester. There are neither lectures nor handouts in this course. Student are presented with patient scenarios in the form of mock medical records and are expected to critically evaluate (which includes assessment of disease and drug therapy) and prioritize problems and incorporate clinical evidence into their therapeutic recommendations. Students are assessed using both short answer written examinations and verbal evaluations.
Fourth Year (P4)
Students are placed in seven 6-week, full time (40 hours per week) patient care experiences during the fourth year. Students are required to complete the following four rotations: community patient care (DSM, compounding, MTM), acute care, and ambulatory care. The students can choose any of the above for an additional patient care experience, and three electives. Students can choose to do out-of-state and international rotations to round out their experiences. Students are assessed based on the school’s ability-based outcomes in pharmacy practice, patient case write-ups, and assignments of the preceptors choosing (drug information questions, presentations, journal clubs, etc).
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