ULM College of Pharmacy

Education

Goal I: Expand web-based library resources and make available to College of Pharmacy faculty, staff, students and active preceptors at all times.

Goal II: Development and maintenance of a contemporary curriculum that is based upon the competencies necessary for entry-level pharmacy practice.

Partnering of interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement modules for the new curriculum
Content in certain of the pharmaceutical sciences, social/behavioral/administrative sciences, and clinical sciences areas included in Appendix B of the new ACPE guidelines will need to be enhanced.
Embed requirements for information retrieval throughout the curriculum.
Improve writing technique and bibliographic instruction to better prepare students.

Goal III: Develop a process to assure ongoing assessment of the curricula that will be conducted with increased student and alumni participation.

Individual courses or modules will have specific, measurable outcomes included in syllabi.
Consideration of best-practice educational methods should be brought to the fore, and fully incorporated into the redesigned curriculum now being created.

Goal IV: Continued quality improvement of professional program admissions process (interview training).

Goal V: Re-evaluate the policy for addressing curricular placement of transferring professional students.

Goal VI: Develop a policy regarding the periodic review of academic standards.

Goal VII: Develop and implement policies and procedures regarding monitoring of student progress for initial identification of at risk students.

Goal VIII: Increase the variety of practice settings available for advanced practice experiences.

Goal IX: Increase the length of advanced practice experiences to meet accreditation requirements.

Goal X: Increase evaluation frequency of practice sites through site visits and other techniques.

Goal XI: Increase class size to meet increasing demand, while maintaining program quality.

Goal XII: Academic progression data should be made available to faculty at the fall and spring retreats each year.