Doctor of Pharmacy PharmD Non-traditional Pathway
Boston
The Non-traditional PharmD program is a part-time, distance-learning program designed for licensed, practicing pharmacists to earn a PharmD degree while continuing to practice. Most of the coursework can be completed online. Non-traditional students must be practicing at or have access to a practice site with opportunities for the provision of pharmaceutical care. All but four weeks of clinical rotations can be completed at the student’s current practice site.
Using the latest technology to deliver high-quality content, the Non-traditional PharmD program educates practicing pharmacists to develop a wide range of skills and abilities, including the following:
- Collect and interpret data to design a pharmaceutical care plan for a specific patient in collaboration with other health care professionals
- Design a pharmaceutical care plan in collaboration with other health professionals, based on identified, patient-specific problems and literature support while giving consideration given to pathophysiologic, pharmacotherapeutic, pharmacokinetic, economic and ethical/legal principles, and the patient’s specific needs and desired outcome
- Recommend and implement a therapeutic plan
- Use effective interpersonal communication to provide counseling, to patients and/or their caregivers, relative to the purpose, proper use, and expected effects of medications
- Plan and perform ongoing patient evaluations to identify additional medication-related problems and make changes to the pharmaceutical care plan
- Document pharmacy practice activities to facilitate communication and collaboration among providers
- Retrieve, evaluate and manage professional information and literature
- Foster the safe, effective and economic use of medications by providing factual medication information to health practitioners, students, health care managers, patients and the general public
- Communicate clearly, effectively and persuasively using a variety of methods (i.e., reading, listening, writing, speaking, non-verbal and/or aesthetic forms of communication, use of data, media and computers) and with a variety of target audiences
- Interact effectively with individuals, within group situations, and within professional organizations and systems
- Perform self-assessment to determine learning needs, and to design, implement, and evaluate strategies to promote intellectual growth and continued professional competence