Founded in 1946, the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy offers a PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) degree. With small class sizes and an active and engaged faculty, the school strives to be a leader in all aspects of pharmacy education. The faculty has comprehensive and wide-ranging interests, including a strong research component that focuses on the pharmaceutical sciences, healthcare systems, treatment of disease, and drug-delivery modalities.
The primary educational objective of the school is to provide education in patient-centered primary care grounded in a sound professional and scientific background. With emphasis on rural community-based practice, the curriculum includes a two-year pre-professional course of study followed by a four-year professional program. The professional program entails three years of on-campus didactic coursework and 40 weeks of experiential coursework performed off campus. The UW School of Pharmacy admits about 50 students per year.
Pharmacy students have access to the UW Drug Information Center (DIC), which exists to provide complete, accurate, and comprehensive information about drugs to students, faculty, healthcare professionals, and residents of the state of Wyoming. All PharmD students serve a rotation in the DIC, which is a valuable resource to the UW community and especially to students studying in the health sciences. All drug-related questions posed to the DIC receive a response from a registered pharmacist with a specialty in drug information.
A $20 million, newly upgraded Health Sciences Center is home to the school. The Center unites most health science-related departments under one interdisciplinary roof. This encourages collaboration, competition, and achievement from students, faculty, and administrators alike.
The school’s mission statement reads, in part, “Promoting professional development through a commitment to lifelong learning. Achieving recognition for innovation or leadership in teaching, service, research, and practice. Promoting excellence in the practice of pharmacy by being agents of positive change.”
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