* The Foundations of Pharmacy Practice: Pharmacy education will prepare pharmacists to provide patient-centered and population-based care that optimizes medication therapy; to manage health-care systems resources to improve therapeutic outcomes; and to promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention. Pharmacists will develop and maintain:
• a commitment to care for, and care about, patients • an in-depth knowledge of medications, and the biomedical, socio-behavioral and clinical sciences • the ability to apply evidence-based therapeutic principles and guidelines, evolving sciences and emerging technologies, and relevant legal, ethical, social, cultural, economic, and professional issues to contemporary pharmacy practice. The purpose of the curriculum is to prepare graduates to be competent, ethical and compassionate entry-level pharmacotherapists who will become leading practitioners of pharmaceutical care. They will be committed to active involvement in the advancement of the pharmacy profession and dedicated to fulfilling the public trust by assuming responsibility for optimizing patient care through provision of appropriate drug therapy and by assuring the safe, effective and efficient use of drug products and drug delivery systems. Mission
Vision for Future Pharm.D. Graduates:
Pharmacy education at the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy will recognize and capitalize on our unique strengths and the diversity of professional opportunities. Our professional program will develop excellence in the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners Vision 2015 Foundations of Pharmacy Practice* as well as in areas consistent with the professional interests of our students and faculty.
Goals
• To prepare professionally competent graduates with a strong foundation in the biological, pharmaceutical, clinical and administrative pharmacy sciences and principles.
• To prepare graduates with practical experiences emphasizing primary pharmaceutical care in various patient care settings and establishing the foundations for further advanced training in more specialized pharmacy practice.
• To develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, promote a sense of intellectual inquiry and instill a desire to pursue life-long learning.
• To develop graduates effective verbal and written communication skills needed for the contemporary practice of pharmacy.
• To promote and develop professional attitudes, conduct, ethics, integrity and values.