Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy Program 2018-2019 SCHOOL OF PHARMACY CAMPUSES Abilene Amarillo Dallas/Ft. Worth Lubbock 1718 Pine 1300 S. Coulter VA Medical Center Building 7 3601 4th Street, MS 8162 Abilene, TX 79601 Amarillo, Texas 79106 4500 Lancaster Road Lubbock, Texas 79430 Dallas, TX 75216 (214) 372-5300 Telephone (214) 372-5020 Facsimile (325) 676-7948 Telephone (806) 414-9300 Telephone (806) 743-4200 Telephone (325) 676-1412 Facsimile (806) 356-4669 Facsimile Southwest Campus (806) 743-4209 Facsimile 5920 Forest Park, Suite 400 Dallas, TX 75235 (214) 654-9404 Telephone (214) 654-9707 Facsimile Academic Year Bulletin This bulletin is a publication of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy containing information concerning policies, regulations, procedures, programs, courses, schedules, and fees. The University reserves the right to change curricula, rules, fees, admission requirements, and other requirements without notice.
The provisions for this Bulletin do not constitute a contract, express or implied, between any applicant, student, faculty member, or any other person and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is open to all persons regardless of race, religion, gender, lifestyle, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin who are otherwise eligible for admission as students. Once admitted, students need to keep themselves apprised of rules and regulations pertaining to the School of Pharmacy found in the Bulletin and to Texas Tech University, found in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Student Affairs Handbook. This Bulletin is published by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy, Amarillo, Texas 79106.
Feb 1, 2018 2 TEXAS TECH SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Board of Regents Tim Lancaster, Chairman Chritsopher M. Huckabee, Vice Chairman L. Frederick “Rick” Francis John Esparza Mickey L. Long John Walker Ronnie Hammonds J.
Michael Lewis John D. Steinmetz Student Regent Jane Gilmore HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER ADMINISTRATION Tedd Mitchell, MD., Chancellor, Texas Tech University System, President, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Steven L., Executive Vice President and Provost Penny Harkey, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Quentin R. Smith, PhR, Senior Vice President for Research Rial Rolfe, Ph., MBA, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Vince Fell, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Billy U., Executive Vice President, F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health MISSION STATEMENT OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER As a comprehensive health sciences center, our mission is to enrich the lives of others by educating students to become collaborative healthcare professionals, providing excellent patient care, and advancing knowledge through innovative research.
VISION STATEMENT OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will strengthen its national reputation as it seeks to promote healthier communities across West Texas and beyond. 3 SCHOOL OF PHARMACY ADMINISTRATION Quentin R., Senior Executive Associate Dean and Regional Dean, Lubbock Thomas J., Regional Dean, Amarillo Sara Brouse, Pharm., FCCP, BCPS AQ Cardiology, Regional Dean, Abilene Steven Pass, PharmD., FCCM, FCCP, FASCP, BCPS, Regional Dean, Dallas Eric MacLaughlin, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, Chair, Pharmacy Practice Thomas Abbruscato, Ph.,Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences Rebecca Sleeper-Irons, Pharm., FCCP, FASCP, BCPS, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Sachin Shah, PharmD, BCOP, FCCP Associate Dean for Accreditation and Outcomes Assessment Krystal Edwards, PharmD BCPS/ Kenna Payne, BCPS Associate Deans for Professional Affairs Sanjay Srivastava, Ph., Associate Dean for the Sciences Thomas J., Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions Summer W., Senior Director of Student Affairs and Admissions 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dean’s Message 6 Doctor of Pharmacy Admissions Policy 26 - The Admission Process 26 School of Pharmacy Philosophy 6 - PCAT 27 - Required Application Documents 31 Mission Statement 7 - Technical Standards 32 - Foreign Student Information 32 Vision Statement 7 - Transfer Credits 32 - Regular Admission Review 33 Culture Statement 7 Pharm.D/MBA Program 33 Outcomes 8 SOP Student Health Record Policy 34 Accreditation 8 - Enrollment Requirements 36 - Flu Vaccine 36 Purposes and Functions 8 - Student Health Insurance 37 General Information 9 The Professional Program 37 - History 9 - Grading 37 - The School of Pharmacy 9 - Progression 38 - Amarillo 10 - Honor Council 40 - Abilene 10 - Campus Assignment Policy 40 - DFW 10 - Withdrawal Policy 40 - Lubbock 11 - Second Chance Policy 41 - Prerequisites 41 Affiliated Teaching Hospitals 11 - Code of Professional Conduct 41 - Attendance 42 The Program 14 - Computer Literacy 42 - Academic Support Services 42 Texas Pharmacy Museum 15 - Curricular Competencies & 42 Assessment Our History-Our Image 15 - Graduation 44 - Program of Study 44 Academic Calendar 15 Curriculum Planner 45 Pharmacy Licensure 16 - Pharmacy Year One 45 - Pharmacy Year Two 45 Texas Residency 16 - Pharmacy Year Three 46 - Pharmacy Year Four 47 TTUHSC Student Services 16 - Inter-professional co-curricular 48 - Student Handbook 16 requirement - Disability Services 16 - Campus Parking 18 Course Descriptions 48 - Student Housing 18 - First Year Couses 49 - Second Year Courses 51 TTUHSC Student Health Services 19 - Third Year Courses 54 - Fourth Year Courses 59 Financial Information 22 - Financial Aid 22 Faculty 64 - Scholarships 23 - Estimated Tuition & Fees 24 - Emergency Tutition Loan Program 25 5 Dean's Message The residents of the Texas Panhandle worked for many years to build a pharmacy school. It was the vision of a dedicated group of pharmacists, citizens, and legislators to provide pharmacy education in West Texas. Today that vision has become evident on the horizon of Amarillo, in the lower plain of Lubbock, the busy streets of Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, the citizens of Abilene dedicated the new campus.
The Texas Tech School of Pharmacy has made a significant impact on the health and well-being of many Texas citizens. Faculty, staff, and, yes, doctoral candidates have come together to provide for the future of pharmacy and patient care. We offer an innovative curriculum. We have progressive teaching methods and technologies that will prepare students for pharmacy practice today and for the years to come.
I can assure you that you will be intellectually challenged over the next four years. I invite you to join in the excitement of the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy. You will partner with other health care professionals to provide patient care. You will make a difference and we want to provide you with the knowledge and skills to make that difference be the very best.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY PHILOSOPHY Traditionally, the pharmacist's role has been that of a dispenser of medications. However, this traditional method of practice is no longer adequate to ensure safety and effectiveness in the use of medications and health devices. The focus of practice must change from one of product distribution to a more expansive duty, assuming the responsibility for our patients' outcomes from the medications we dispense. Health care reform has put an emphasis on primary health care.
This emphasis coupled with a lack of access, increasingly rising costs, and a concern for quality is placing the pharmacist in an important role as a member of the primary health care delivery team. Pharmacists are located in most rural communities and throughout inner cities and urban sprawl across the country. This physical placement of the pharmacist, who is trained in delivering comprehensive care to the public, allows access to primary health care where it is critically lacking. The role of the pharmacist as a member of the primary health care team does not replace the physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner but enhances their effectiveness.
The pharmaceutical services provided in this changing arena include participating in the drug therapy decision process through recommending therapeutic objectives, selecting the most appropriate drug product to achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes given the patient's unique characteristics, determining dose and dosage schedule, selecting the drug product source of supply and drug preparation, and monitoring the patient's response to the therapy so that the patient receives the optimal benefits with minimal adverse drug effects. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Pharmacy offers the degree of Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.) with this expanded role of the pharmacist in mind. The effective delivery of essential primary health care services requires a greater responsibility of the pharmacist and a greater depth and breadth of education to support it. 6 It is a goal of all educators to foster within students the desire to learn and the ability to discover.
Our curriculum has been designed to encourage intellectual development and help the student become a competent and skilled professional pharmacist. This is accomplished through conceptual competence, technical competence, integrated competence, and career marketability. Pharmaceutical education must provide students a fundamentally strong science base enabling them to understand the progression of diseases and how drug therapy can influence or reverse this process. Pharmacists evaluate clinical studies and use data to reach conclusions regarding a variety of issues.
Graduates must be mathematically competent in the resolution of problems related to drug therapy. Analytical thinking must be cultivated allowing today's pharmacy pharmacist to be effective in decision making. Communication skills are essential in preparing the student to be an effective pharmacist. Graduates must have an understanding of the social context in which their profession is practiced.
They must learn to first listen in order to effectively convey information regarding drug therapies. There must also be sensitivity to patients of all socio-economic levels and cultural backgrounds whose native language is not English. TTUHSC School of Pharmacy's program is student centered, focusing on problem-based educational strategies. The curriculum provides an integrated course context of pathophysiology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, and therapeutics, built on a solid understanding of the biomedical sciences.
It offers expanded practice management instruction and clinical experiences early and throughout the four-year professional program. Each of the curricular and instructional strategies has been precisely balanced to give the academic and clinical preparation to optimally succeed in any pharmaceutical profession. MISSION STATEMENT Our mission is to enhance the lives of the diverse people of Texas and beyond, through excellence and innovation in: educating health-care practitioners, researchers, and educators, providing pharmaceutical care and service, and advancing knowledge through scholarship. VISION STATEMENT Our vision is to become internationally recognized for expanding the pharmacist’s role as a leader in healthcare by developing models and excellence in patient-centered care and collaborative drug therapy management through an innovative educational curriculum, while advancing healthcare and science through cutting-edge research.
CULTURE STATEMENT Our culture - the way we live and act - is created by a strong commitment to a set of core values based on mutual respect, professionalism, and integrity. As a community of learners, we are committed to… • A student-centered, positive learning community. We foster a personal dedication to the pharmacy profession and excellence in education, practice, and research. 7 • Collaborative interpersonal relationships—defined as mutual learning, open communication, and shared responsibility among faculty, administration, and students.
• Compassionate care, an unwavering dedication, to each patient’s pharmaceutical care needs. • This care is supported by sound biological and behavioral understanding of healthcare. • Community involvement and serving the healthcare needs of the citizens of Texas. Our outreach projects enrich our community and provide students with a sense of public responsibility.
Life-long learning and a willingness to change, be progressive, make timely and vigilant decisions, and evaluate our performances against stated goals. OUTCOMES The results of embracing and living the TTUHSC School of Pharmacy values are excellence, innovative pharmaceutical education, preparation of professionals with an unwavering ethical foundation, a positive, rewarding and stimulating work environment, and a noticeable and positive impact on the communities in which we work, study, and live as well as academic and healthcare environments that encourage open debate and dialogue, the introduction of new ideas and practices, innovation through collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to self-improvement. ACCREDITATION The Doctor of Pharmacy Program of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).