The emphasis of the candidate's activities will be the management of pharmacotherapeutic and pharmacokinetic problems encountered with patients' drug regimens at the assigned practice site. Candidates also will be engaged in ongoing drug utilization reviews, patient and health provider education programs, and other pertinent activities involved in the provision of patient care. While clinical responsibilities occur during all of the candidate's experiential rotations, the primary focus will vary with a student's choice of elective clerkship experiences. Externship rotations will focus on the organizational, technical and administrative aspects of providing pharmaceutical care. Candidates are required to complete nine months of experiential rotations.
All rotations are full-time experiences with schedules established separately by each instructor.
Experiential clerkship rotation prerequisites include satisfactory completion of all degree requirements prior to semester nine of the professional curriculum. All immunizations, as listed previously in this section of the catalog, must be on file with the Office of Experiential Programs before clinical practice begins. Doctor of pharmacy students are strongly encouraged to attend the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Mid-year Clinical Meeting in December to begin residency interviews. Because pharmacy is a profession undergoing rapid change, the curriculum is subject to continual review and modification. As society's needs for specific types of pharmaceutical service change, the curriculum will change as well.