Curricular philosophy
The goal of the UNE SOP curriculum is to create a student-centered learning experience that cultivates highly competent pharmacy practitioners. The pharmacist of the twenty-first century will be prepared to deliver optimal patient-centered care in a collaborative, interprofessional environment. Didactic and experiential learning experiences integrate foundational knowledge for optimizing patient care and therapeutic outcomes in health systems, community practice, and research settings. Students will interact with health care professionals and students from other disciplines in order to function effectively as part of an interprofessional team. The curriculum promotes the core values of UNE SOP including professionalism, servant leadership, diversity, and lifelong learning. To cultivate critical thinking as well as clinical reasoning, modes of instructional delivery include interactive lectures, laboratories, case studies, and group problem solving and discussion.
Upon completion of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum, students will achieve the following outcomes:
- Develop, integrate, and apply knowledge from the foundational sciences to evaluate the scientific literature, explain drug action, solve therapeutic problems, and advance population health and patient-centered care
- Provide patient-centered care as the medication expert
- Manage patient healthcare needs using human, financial, technological, and physical resources to optimize the safety and efficacy of medication use systems
- Design prevention, intervention, and educational strategies for individuals and communities to manage chronic disease and improve health and wellness
- Describe how population-based care influences patient-centered care and influences the development of practice guidelines and evidence-based best practices
- Identify problems; explore and prioritize potential strategies; and design, implement, and evaluate a viable solution
- Educate all audiences by determining the most effective and enduring ways to impart information and assess understanding
- Assure that patients' best interests are represented
- Actively participate and engage as a healthcare team member by demonstrating mutual respect, understanding, and values to meet patient care needs
- Recognize social determinants of health to diminish disparities and inequities in access to quality care
- Effectively communicate verbally and nonverbally when interacting with an individual, group, or organization
- Examine and reflect on personal knowledge, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, and emotions that could enhance or limit personal and professional growth
- Demonstrate responsibility for creating and achieving shared goals, regardless of position
- Engage in innovative activities by using creative thinking to envision better ways of accomplishing professional goals
- Exhibit behaviors and values that are consistent with the trust given to the profession by patients, other healthcare providers, and society