Our curriculum has been designed to encourage your intellectual development and help you to become a competent and skilled professional pharmacist. This is accomplished through conceptual competence, technical competence, integrated competence and career marketability. Pharmaceutical education must provide students a fundamentally strong science base enabling them to evaluate clinical studies and use data to reach conclusions regarding a variety of issues. Students must be mathematically competent in the resolution of problems related to drug therapy. Analytical and critical thinking must be cultivated allowing today's pharmacy student to be effective in decision making.
Communication skills are essential in preparing the student to be an effective caregiver.
Graduates must have an understanding of the social context in which their profession is practiced. They must learn to first listen in order to effectively convey information regarding drug therapies. There must also be a sensitivity to patients of all socio-economic levels and whose native language is not English. The curriculum provides an integrated course context of pathophysiology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and therapeutics. It offers expanded practice management instruction and clinical experiences early and throughout the four-year professional program.