What Starts Here Changes the World
Pharmacy Practice faculty teach throughout the required Pharm.D. curriculum on current issues in the field and special interest topics.
Pharm.D. Curriculum and Courses
Electives offer students the opportunity to explore areas of interest more deeply in a smaller setting. Pharmacy Practice faculty lead a variety of elective courses.
Pharmacy Practice Labs (PPL)
This course series navigates the pharmacists' patient care process in preparation for Introductory and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences.
Students utilize critical-thinking, problem-solving and communication skills to collect, assess, plan, implement and follow-up on patients at introductory and advanced levels.
Foundations of Professional Development (FPD)
The goal of the FPD course sequence is to provide in-depth education and training to promote personal and professional development of students. The FPD courses are built on five interdependent pillars: Self-Awareness, Professionalism, Leadership, Career Development and Planning, and Contemporary Issues in Practice. These courses employ a series of seminars and team-based workshops to inculcate students into the College of Pharmacy and profession of pharmacy.
Experiential Education
Experiential education provides students with experiences in pharmacy practice under the guidance of preceptor faculty. The experiences increase in duration and complexity as the student pharmacist gains knowledge and skills, starting with introductory pharmacy practice experiences (IPPE) in health-system institution, community, and ambulatory pharmacy settings. The experiences culminate with the advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) occurring in the final year of the curriculum (P4), commonly referred to as “rotations.” Learn more about experiential education.
The Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE)
Pharmacy Practice’s Veronica Young is the Founding Director of this program. IPE’s mission is to “lead innovative interprofessional education, practice and scholarship that advances collaborative person-centered health care and population-oriented health.” Learn more about the Center for Health IPE.
Foundations of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (FICP)
FICP 1 brings together the UT Austin College of Pharmacy, Dell Medical School, School of Nursing, and School of Social Work. This P1 course focuses on interprofessional team-based learning including in-class group activities and team simulations, as well as an out-of-class community project. Students from all four programs collaborate in interprofessional teams with support from faculty facilitators.
Community Service Projects
The overall goal of this P3 course is to prepare Pharm.D. students to improve community/population health through place-based experiences that demonstrate the impact of interprofessional collaboration on health outcomes in the continuum of care. Improving the health of the population is a key element of the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim.