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| Temple's Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
program meets the professional challenges of all areas of
pharmacy practice. Our guiding philosophy is to inculcate
values necessary for students to serve society as caring,
ethical, and learning professionals while making them
enlightened citizens. Temple's Pharm.D. program requires six years of study divided into two components. The first requires the completion of two years of pre-professional education at Temple University or at an accredited institution of higher learning. The professional education component requires four years of study at the School of Pharmacy. All students at the professional level must begin in the fall semester. Because of the intensity of study, newly admitted students must be prepared to utilize their critical thinking and study skills effectively. |
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| The professional program unfolds as a continuum of topics that range from the fundamentals of drug action and dosage form design up to and including the safe and efficacious use of therapeutic agents in the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients. Many of the courses are structured as a mix of didactic lectures and problem-based small group recitations. In the first three years of the professional program, the student must successfully complete the following course clusters: the science of dosage form design, development and application (pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics); drug action and use (medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, biostatistics, literature |
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| evaluation, therapeutics); normal and abnormal physiologic states (anatomy, physiology, infectious disease, immunology, biochemistry, pathophysiology); law, pharmacoeconomics, drug information, patient counseling, and professional/ specialty electives. The fourth professional year is comprised of clerkship rotations in a variety of community, hospital, and institutional settings wherein students apply the concepts of pharmaceutical care and refine their problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills. Rotations are scheduled over a 12-month period beginning in June, and, in addition to patient care venues, may also include other professional settings that broaden the student's experience. For a complete list of the entry-level courses in the Pharm. D. program, click here. | |
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