Program Outcomes

Provide high quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care that is appropriate and effective, in cooperation with patients, prescribers, and other members of the inter-professional health care team.

• Promote health and wellness and disease prevention.
• Provide pharmaceutical care and services within the full spectrum of the profession which includes, but is not limited to, providing Medication Therapy Management (MTM), vaccinations, and drug therapy monitoring in the full range of practice domains (e.g., inpatient, ambulatory, and community practice).
• Provide culturally competent pharmaceutical care and demonstrate cultural competence when interacting with patients, families and other members of the health care team.
• Appropriately address patient-specific and population-specific needs and issues in the provision of patient care.

Demonstrate mastery of the core knowledge and skills corresponding to established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge. This includes competency in those areas specifically supporting high quality pharmacy practice (e.g., pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacology, pathophysiology, pharmacotherapeutics, and pharmaceutical care).

• Demonstrate the ability to use critical analysis and problem solving skills to appropriately apply existing and evolving science to the provision of high quality, evidence-based pharmacy services and patient care.

Evaluate practice and care, and promote continuous improvement in one’s own patient care and pharmacy services.

• Demonstrate appropriate self-calibration skills and a commitment to the lifelong learning needed to provide high quality care.
• Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies to enhance the quality of care and services.
• Effectively utilize information, informatics and technology to optimize learning and patient care.

Demonstrate effective interpersonal written and verbal skills with patients, families, the public as well as other health care providers, adapting to socioeconomic and cultural factors as well as situational-applications as appropriate.

• Effectively educate families, patients, caregivers, and other HCPs.
• Function effectively in a team.
• Act in a consultative position for other members of the health care team, regulatory agencies and policy makers.

Evidence exemplary professional, ethical and legal behaviors, complying with all federal, state and local laws and regulations related to pharmacy practice.

• Contribute to the training of pharmacy students/future colleagues, and the growth and success of professional colleagues, and the profession.
• Demonstrate the respect for patient privacy and autonomy, as well as sensitivity and responsiveness to diverse patient populations.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity, truthfulness, and fairness.
• Demonstrate initiative, reliability and follow-through in fulfilling commitments.

Demonstrate an awareness of, and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, effectively utilizing systems and systems of care to provide cost-effective, optimal care.

• Incorporate considerations of cost awareness and risk-benefit analysis in patient and/or population-based care as appropriate; this includes the ability to apply pharmacoeconomic principles to health outcomes and patient care.
• Effectively manage medication use systems.
• Prioritize patient safety and public health.
• Advocate for quality patient care and optimal health care or public health systems.
• Work on interprofessional teams to enhance quality and safety.
• Participate in identifying system errors.