Western University of Health Sciences – Online Pharmacy & Pharmacy Technician Degrees

DESCRIPTION

Western University of Health Sciences educates and prepares health professionals qualified to provide comprehensive health care to families and is dedicated to a mission that increases the availability of health care professionals to serve the primary health care needs of the Western United States.

• The College of Pharmacy serves the public and the community through its programs in pharmaceutical education, scholarship, patient care, and public service.
• The College is committed to creating, communicating, and applying knowledge about drugs and drug therapy management, thus promoting efficacy, value and appropriate health care outcomes.
• It seeks to provide an environment open to free exchange of ideas, where professionalism, scholarship, and learning can flourish.
• The College of Pharmacy offers a quality education that will give you excellent preparation for entry into the practice of pharmacy as a competent and caring practitioner.
• Our modern facilities furnished with state-of-the-art equipment and our committed faculty members provide an excellent learning and research environment in which you will be treated as a colleague and a competent pharmacist-intraining.

CURRICULUM

The Pharm.D curriculum offers a professional course of study over four years that focuses on the following areas of concern:

1. demographics and epidemiological changes including increasing age of the population, complexity of drugs, diversity of delivery systems for services, and demand for drug information;
2. drug-related illness whereby pharmacists work as partners on a treatment team in institutional acute-care and nonresidential settings;
3. medical technology with the development of drugs and the knowledge explosion on use and abuse of drugs;
4. pharmaceutical care with comprehensive drug therapy and use processes;
5. clinical pharmacy expanded beyond acute care facilities, long-term care and other outpatient concerns.

The curriculum is unique in that it is delivered in blocks rather than semesters or quarters. In the block system, students focus on one subject at a time and attain a level of competence in that subject before moving on to the next. Each block is approximately 18 days in length and is followed by a 3-4 day break. There are 10 blocks in an academic year.

PHARMCAS | Application Deadline

Yes – November 01

PCAT

No

TUITION

• 2004 State Resident: 30410 Non-Resident: 30410 Fees Mandatory: 40 Optional: 0

• 2005 State Resident: 32230 Non-Resident: 32230 Fees Mandatory: 0 Optional: 0

• 2006 State Resident: 34030 Non-Resident: 34030 Fees Mandatory: 40 Optional: 0

• 2007 State Resident: 35900 Non-Resident: 35900 Fees Mandatory: 165 Optional: 1065

ADMISSION REQUIREMENT

• Accreditation Status
• Full

Admitted Student Profile

2006

• Average: 3.33
• Range: 23-45
• Admitted-Ratio: 7.7:1

ADDRESS

College of Pharmacy
Western University of Health Sciences
309 East Second Street
Pomona, CA 91766
909-469-5214

Visit: Western University of Health Sciences – College of Pharmacy
http://www.westernu.edu/