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Introduction
This program is five-semester full-time post-baccalaureate professional degree. Individuals completing the program will be capable of fulfilling advanced clinical and hospital pharmacy practice roles in hospitals, ambulatory care sites, primary care setting, academia, governmental sectors, consulting and other health care agencies. The program is designed so that students develop specific competencies in clinical and experimental therapeutics that are translational among the basic, applied and clinical settings. The program comprised two components: three semesters of didactic coursework followed by two semesters of clinical rotations. During the first three semesters, the curriculum provides a greater emphasis on the clinical relevance of research studies while maintaining rigorous instruction in pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics and hospital pharmacy administration. It also provides the student with a core of professional knowledge and skills in clinical research design and medical and pharmaceutical literature evaluation including the application of statistical analysis and hypothesis testing.
The last two semesters will be devoted to clinical rotations that provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the classroom to the practice of pharmacy in a variety of patient care settings. In addition to refining advanced pharmacy practice skills, students gain confidence in applying evidence-based principles to drug therapy decisions. This period is composed of eight one-month clerkships selected from the following areas:
1. Clinical pharmacy clerkships in selected internal medicine specialties.
2. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)
3. Hospital pharmacy administration,
Concurrently, the M.S. candidate must complete a research project that is of publishable quality to satisfy the degree requirements.
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