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Pharm.D. Curriculum
  • Six year program
  • 2 years pre-professional requirements & General Education
  • 4 years professional Curriculum
    • 3 years coursework and early experience
    • 1 year Advanced Practice Rotations
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Admission
  • Admitted Directly to Pharmacy as Freshmen
  • Guaranteed Seat in Professional Curriculum (Year 3)
    • Earn and maintain 2.5 qpa in science and math pre-requisites with no grade<C- by  the third semester
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Admission Profile
  • High Scores on standard tests
  • High Scores in high school coursework
  • AP and Honors courses
  • Leadership activities
    • Involved in school and community
  • Good communication skills
  • People person
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Curriculum Design
  • Driven by Accreditation Standards
  • Entry level generalist practitioner
  • Teach how to find information and then how to make a good clinical decision for a particular patient
  • Study ways to improve compliance in therapy for chronic diseases
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Organ System Approach
  • Each semester get pathophysiology (disease), biomedical science (drugs and how they work), and therapeutics (managing patient)
  • Evidence Based
  • IAL seminar case-based around organ system diseases-small class size
  • Drug delivery , kinetics, law, health systems
  • Patient Physical Assessment
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Applied Technology
  • Laptop Program
  • 3D Visualization
  • Patient Simulation
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Tracking Options
  • Pharmacy Practice
    • Community practice
    • Pharmacotherapy
    • Drug Information and Technology
    • Pharmacoepidemiology
    • Managed Care and Pharmacoeconomics
  • Basic Research
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Early Experience
  • Beginning in the third year (P1)
  • Required for both Community and Hospital
  • Cannot be paid
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Clinical Rotations
  • Six Advanced Practice Experience
  • At least one In-Patient and one Community Practice
  • Elective Rotations
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Clinical Rotations
  • All over the New England area in hospitals, pharmacies, HMO’s non-traditional practice environments
  • Alaska USPHS
  • France Université de Rennes I
  • Food And Drug Administration
  • Will consider student proposals
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After Graduation
  • Residency Program
  • Fellowship Program
  • PharmD/MBA, PharmD/MS
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New Pharmacy Building
  • Approx. 140,000 gross square feet
  • Expanded research, teaching and service capacity
  • State of the art teaching spaces
  • Expanded and enhanced student areas