College of Pharmacy

Future Students

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************NOTICE TO 2008 APPLICANTS ************

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE OF JANUARY 4! The application period will begin on October 1, 2007, and will end on January 4, 2008.

Our Doctor of Pharmacy professional curriculum is greatly ehanced. In order for our new students to meet the challenges of a more rigorous curriculum in our PharmD program, we have increased the prerequisites. To find the list of new prerequisites, use the link at the right marked "Pre-pharmacy Requirements".

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General Information


The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program requires 3 years of pre-pharmacy studies followed by four years of professional education. At the earliest, candidates may apply for the four-year program in the winter prior to completing the prerequisites, and must show how all prerequisites will be completed before enrolling in the professional program in the fall.

WSU pharmacy students attend classes at the main campus in Pullman for the first two professional years, and at the branch campus in Spokane for the third year, and the fourth year is spent doing rotations. The program admits 94 students annually. Students are charged professional-level tuition.

Pharmacists are very dedicated, trustworthy people, and the WSU College of Pharmacy takes seriously their mission to train and educate our future pharmacists. Before classes ever begin for a brand new pharmacy student, we hold a formal event called the White Coat Ceremony, during which the new students stand, raise their right hand and take the Pharmacy Students Pledge of Professionalism. This is a precursor to another ritual we lead them through after their four years of pharmacy school come to a conclusion. During the graduation events these same students will stand, raise their right hand and take the Oath of a Pharmacist. At both of these solemn rituals, their parents, teachers and friends are in attendance to witness, support, and celebrate with them.

The centerpiece of the PharmD curriculum is a series of experiences collectively designated as the "Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory" (PCL). The laboratory exercises represent real life problems and rely on computer simulations and other instructional devices. Skills emphasized in the PCL include patient counseling, comprehensive assessment of patient drug therapy, drug use evaluation, and management of drug therapy of patients with specific disease states, among others. Also highlighted are pricing, business management decision-making, and determining the financial consequences of providing a specific pharmaceutical care service.

The Pharmaceutical Care Center (PCC) is equipped with workstations, patient counseling rooms and counters, a communications laboratory, and a variety of drug information resources. A separate component of the PCC includes prescription compounding, intravenous solution preparation and prepackaging laboratories. Students have access to a large patient database as well as a variety of pharmacy computer systems. These include capabilities for training students in managing inventories, pricing, third party processing, maintaining patient profiles, and other computer based patient drug therapy management aids.

Other courses in the curriculum will provide the knowledge base necessary for students to acquire needed skills to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care to their patients.

 

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