Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1330 - PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT › Subpart C - PHARMACIST › Section 1330.300 - Approval of Pharmacy Programs

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
				The Division shall, upon the recommendation of the Board, approve a pharmacy
				program in a school or college or department of pharmacy of a university or
				other institution as reputable and in good standing if it meets the following
				minimum criteria:
1) Is legally recognized
				and authorized, through appropriate agencies such as a ministry of education or
				higher education governing board, by the jurisdiction in which it is located to
				confer a first professional degree in pharmacy;
2) Has a faculty comprised of a sufficient
				number of full-time instructors to make certain that the educational
				obligations to the student are fulfilled. Their facility must have demonstrated
				competence in their area of teaching as evidenced by appropriate degrees from
				professional colleges or institutions in disciplines reflective of the
				curricular requirements. (All of the pharmacist members of the clinical faculty
				and a majority of the faculty in the pharmaceutical sciences should be licensed
				pharmacists in that jurisdiction. The clinical faculty should be active
				practitioners.);
3) Has a
				curricular offering of post-secondary instruction totaling at least 5 academic
				years, including any preprofessional education requirements, and requiring a
				minimum of the following subject areas:
A)
				General Education (a minimum of 30 semester hours or its equivalent in courses
				in the humanities and behavioral and social sciences);
B) Preclinical Sciences (courses in the
				physical and biological sciences and mathematics that are prerequisites to
				professional studies and training; course work should include general
				chemistry, organic chemistry, general biology, microbiology and
				mathematics);
C) Professional
				Studies and Training (in the following areas):
i) Biomedical sciences, which include
				anatomy, physiology, immunology, biological chemistry, pathology and
				biostatistics;
ii) Pharmaceutical
				sciences, which include pharmaceutical or medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics or
				dosage form design and evaluation, pharmacokinetics, synthetic and natural drug
				product chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutical administration and the social
				and behavioral sciences in pharmacy;
iii) Clinical sciences and practice, which
				include clinically applied courses based on the biomedical and pharmaceutical
				sciences, such as didactic courses in clinical foundations, disease processes
				and diagnoses, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, and drug information
				research and literature retrieval; and
iv) Externship and clerkship, which include a
				minimum of 400 direct contact hours in clerkship and externship experience.
				These experiences should minimally include supervised training in inpatient
				environments providing for interdisciplinary experiences with other health
				professionals and distributive aspects of pharmacy practice;
4) Has essential
				facilities including, but not limited to, administrative and faculty offices,
				teaching and research laboratories, lecture rooms, conference rooms, student
				activities areas, service areas and other programmatic support areas;
5) Has a comprehensive library that contains
				a contemporary collection of periodicals, texts and reference books relevant to
				the biomedical, pharmaceutical and clinical aspects of health care and its
				systems of delivery;
6) Has
				clinical facilities adequate in number and quality and with appropriate
				supervision to deliver the clinical clerkships and externships of the
				curriculum. The facilities shall be available in inpatient and outpatient
				environments, including patient care areas of health care institutions,
				hospital pharmacies and community pharmacies; and
7) Maintains permanent retrievable and
				auditable student records that summarize the credentials for admission,
				attendance, grades and other records of performance for each student enrolled
				in the program.