The New PharmD Graduate
The curriculum for 2018 and beyond will prepare graduates to be critical thinkers and problem solvers—who will lead the way in today’s dynamic health care environment, toward better health for all.
To educate our students for a changing workplace, we continually make gradual, incremental changes in what and how we teach. At times, those changes have also been dramatic—one of those times is now.
At this moment, we’re shaping and reshaping courses for current students, while creating a strikingly different curriculum for students entering our PharmD program in 2018 and beyond.
The curriculum will prepare graduates with the critical thinking skills they’ll need to solve tomorrow’s health problems, as science discoveries continually unfold, within complex health care systems, and upon a changing health care landscape that we can’t even begin to imagine today.
In addition, the curriculum will support interprofessional learning and intense team learning among classmates, with the specific goal of fostering collaborative approaches to problem solving as the norm.
We expect graduates of the new curriculum to use their PharmD degrees in new ways by building on their pharmacy expertise with additional advanced training. The curriculum for 2018 and beyond is being purposefully crafted to prepare graduates with the skills necessary for further advanced specialized training in pharmacy or other fields. The curriculum will be presented over three years, year round, enabling graduates to enter advanced training one year earlier than would be possible in a traditional four-year curriculum.
Read more details of the UCSF PharmD curriculum for 2018 and beyond on the Overview page.