Curriculum & Training

Pharmacy Year 4 – Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)

Overview

• 6-week rotations
• International APPE are considered “Elective” (not Core)
• Patient-care or non-patient-care (lab-based) APPE

Curriculm Plan

Eleven (11) didactic elective units are required before moving on to the fourth year.

Third year students must successfully pass the Comprehensive Exam (cumulative) before moving on to the fourth Year.

Students complete five (5) core APPE rotations: One each in Community Pharmacy, Health Systems, Acute Care, and Ambulatory Care. The 5th core rotation must be either Acute Care or Ambulatory Care.

• Summer: 
  • Core APPE: 7
  • Core APPE: 7
  • Total Units: 14
• Fall:
  • Core APPE: 7
  • Core APPE: 7
  • Total Units: 14
• Winter:
  • Core APPE: 7
  • Elective APPE: 7
  • Total Units: 14
• Spring:
  • Elective APPE: 7
  • SPPS 210 Student Research Project: 4
  • SPPS 211D Co‐curriculuar Program IV: 1
  • Total Units: 12

Global Drug Safety Training

We provide onsite training with world-class faculty for 3 months to 2 years to obtain skills in:

• Clinical pharmacology
• Microbiome
• Drug discovery and innovation
• Small molecule therapeutics
• Computer-aided drug design
• Toxicology
• Metabolomics
• Health policy
• Pharmacoeconomics

Our faculty educate on research and clinical pharmacy for these diseases:

• Pediatric and adult infectious diseases
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Tropical diseases
• Amebiasis
• Parasitic diseases
• Cancer therapeutics
• Mental health
• Diabetes
• Liver diseases

Countries: Low-Middle Income Countries including Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia