The partnership is a multi-phased program that provides all first year pharmacy students with laptops and will culminate by fall 2003 when every student in the pharmacy school will be equipped with laptops. The students understand the need for this new technology. The computers will enhance students' educational opportunities, giving them access to medical journals, professional associations, and other research tools available on the worldwide web. Secondly, access to a standardized core of application programs facilitates computer use in courses. Faculty members know each student is equipped to accomplish the assigned task.
Pharmacy students attend a workshop to become familiar with their laptops.
In addition, the Pharmacy School has refurbished two rooms as computer labs, with high-speed internet connections at each of the 44 docking stations, for student use. The decision to provide laptop computers was based on the experience of other educational institutions such as Wake Forest University. Maddox is proud that Campbell is in the 10 percent of pharmacy schools across the country that have implemented such programs. Today, pharmacists routinely use computers to facilitate the dispensing of medications. For example, the ability to access medical records and the most current drug information will increase the value-added of pharmacist interventions to each patient.