Part 1: Background Questions · 2016-11-01 · • Chemical basis for drug action • Fundamental...

We appreciate you taking time to fill out this important survey addressing US colleges/schools of pharmacy curriculums. The information gleaned from this national survey will support the NABP examination programs including the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX), the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA), and the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination (FPGEE). This survey consists of four parts: Part 1 is a brief set of background questions about your college/school of pharmacy. Responses to these questions are required. Part 2 is the curriculum assessment portion of the survey. This section will present a main subject (courses) taught within the four core competency areas. It will also include a list of subtopics that provide greater detail about the subject in question. In this section you will be asked to provide (to the best of your ability) the number of contact OR credit hours that map to the subject in the professional curriculum. If the coursework is required for admission into the professional curriculum, you will be asked to provide that information in this section. Part 3 addresses introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiential requirements in your program. Part 4 addresses personal and professional development requirements in your program. Throughout the survey space has been provided for you to qualify your responses, as needed. The survey should take approximately 3045 minutes to complete. Please be as accurate in your responses as possible. If the subject presented is not included in the professional curriculum, you may enter 0 contact or credit hours as applicable.

What is the name of your college or school of pharmacy?

What is your ACPE status?

What is the typical size of your college or school’s graduating class?

Is your college or school of pharmacy quarter, trimester, or semester based?

Part 1: Background Questions

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Accreditation Status

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Candidate Status

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PreCandidate Status

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Quarters

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Trimesters

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Semesters

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What are the minimal prerequisite credit hours/contact hours requirements for admissions into the PharmD program?

Which best describes the model of your admission and completion requirements for your pharmacy program?

Beginning July 1, 2016, the PCOA should be administered to students nearing the completion of the didactic curriculum. NABP will work with all colleges and schools to ensure that timing and availability of administrations of the PCOA will meet program needs. Select up to three months that you would consider the time frame when students are near the completion of the didactic portion of the curriculum.

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2 year PrePharm + 3 year accelerated professional program

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2 year PrePharm + 4 years professional program

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3 year PrePharm + 4 years professional program

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4 year PrePharm bachelor degree + 4 years professional program

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What is your position at the college or school of pharmacy?

Are there any important aspects of your college or school of pharmacy you wish to describe (e.g., dualtrack, distance learning)?

Please respond to the following curricular survey questions based on your college or school’s PharmD program requirements. To clarify, this is subject matter taught in the professional program, not required for admission into the program. On occasion, there will be subjects that are required for admission and are taught at an advanced level in the professional program. Please include these subjects in your estimates for contact/credit hour responses. You are given the option of providing contact or credit hours. You do not have to provide both contact and credit hours, and you may alternate between the two based on what is most appropriate for the subject in question. If the subject is not included in the professional program, indicate “0” in the contact or credit hour field as applicable.

Area 1.0 Basic Biomedical Sciences

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Part 2: PharmD Curriculum Assessment


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If yes, how many contact or credit hours are required?

Are there any other important aspects of this subject related to curriculum you wish to describe?


1.1 Anatomy and Physiology Includes: • Recognition of structures and composition of the tissues in the body as applies to: integumentary muscular skeletal cardiovascular lymphatic respiratory digestive nervous endocrine urinary reproductive body fluids and electrolytes cells in tissue • Function of the major body systems and how they impact homeostasis at organ and whole body level

How many contact OR credit hours (~15 contact hours = 1 credit hour) are required for this subject in your college or school’s PharmD curriculum?Contact Hours:

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Is this subject also necessary to meet admission requirements for entry into your PharmD program?

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1.2 Biochemistry Includes: • Chemistry and utilization of biomacromolecules: proteins lipids carbohydrates nucleic acid • Enzymology and coenzymes and kinetics


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1.3 Microbiology Includes: • Fundamentals of microbiology: microbe classification structure metabolism genetics • Pathogenic microorganisms of humans

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1.4 Molecular Cell Biology Includes: • Receptor physiology and signal transduction pathways • Regulation of the cell membrane, transporters, channels, and movement across the membrane • Mechanisms of cell growth, division, and death • Recombinant DNA and molecular biotechnology • Mechanisms of mRNA translation and protein synthesis


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1.5 Immunology Includes: • Innate and adaptive immunity • Principles of antibody actions • Hypersensitivity and types of reactions


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2.1 Medicinal Chemistry Includes: • Physicochemical properties of drugs in relation to drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) • Chemical basis for drug action • Fundamental pharmacophores for drugs used to treat diseases • Structure activity relationships in relation to drugtarget interactions • Chemical pathways of drug metabolism • Applicability to making drug therapy decisions


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2.2 Pharmacology and Toxicology Includes: • Mechanisms of action of drugs of various categories including biologics • Pharmacodynamics of drug binding and response • Adverse effects and side effects of drugs • Mechanisms of drug/drug interactions • Drug discovery and development • Acute and chronic toxic effect of xenobiotics, including drug and chemical overdose and antidotes


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2.3 Pharmacognosy and Dietary Supplements Includes: • Concepts of crude drugs, semipurified, and purified natural products • Classes of pharmacologically active natural products • Science and regulation of dietary supplements (vitamins, minerals, and herbals)


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2.4 Pharmaceutics/Biopharmaceutics Includes: • Biopharmaceutical principles of drug delivery to the body via dosage forms: liquid solid semisolid controlled release patches implants • Materials and methods used in preparation of drug forms • Physicochemical properties relating to drug entities and dosage forms • Principles of drug and dosage form stability, including chemical degradation and physical instability


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2.5 Pharmacokinetics Includes: • Basic principles of in vivo drug kinetics (linear and nonlinear) • Principles of bioavailability/bioequivalence • Physiologic determinates of drug onset and duration, including disease, and dietary influences on absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion


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2.6 Pharmacogenomics and Genetics Includes: • Molecular genetic, genomic, proteomic and metabolomic principles that serve as a foundation for pharmacogenomics and the genetic basis of disease. • Genetic variants affecting drug action and metabolism, adverse drug reactions and disease risk that influence the practice of personalized medicine

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2.7 Sterile and NonSterile Compounding Includes: • United States Pharmacopeia guidelines on sterile and nonsterile compounding, hazardous drugs, and FDA regulation of compounding • Techniques and principles used to prepare and dispense individual extemporaneous prescriptions including dating of compounded dosage forms • Dosage form preparation calculations • Sterile admixture techniques including stability, clean room requirements, sterility testing, and dating


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Area 3.0 Social/Behavioral/Administrative Sciences


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3.1 Health Care Delivery Systems and Public Health Includes: • Organization of health care delivery systems at the national, state, and local levels (e.g., various settings where pharmacy is practiced and the structure of healthcare delivery systems such as managed care organizations, accountable care organizations, and health departments) • Health care delivery financing in the United States • Social, political, and economic factors that influence the delivery of health care in the United States • Public Health and Wellness: chronic disease prevention health promotion infectious disease control demographics physical, social, and environmental factors leading to disease comparing and contrasting public health with individual medical care • The health care delivery system compared and contrasted with that of other industrialized nations


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3.2 Populationbased Care and Pharmacoepidemiology Includes: • Data sources and analytic tools that provide an estimate of the probability of beneficial or adverse effects of medication use in large populations • Application of epidemiological study designs to evaluate drug use and outcomes in large populations • Methods for continually monitoring unwanted effects and other safetyrelated aspects of medication use in large populations


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3.3 Economic and Humanistic Outcomes of Health Care Delivery Includes: • General microeconomic and general macroeconomic principles • Pharmacoeconomic analysis and its application to improve the allocation of limited health care resources • Humanistic outcomes and their application to improve the allocation of limited health care resources


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3.4 Pharmacy Practice Management Includes: • Management principles (planning, organizing, directing, and controlling pharmacy resources) applied to various pharmacy practice settings and patient outcomes • Personnel management • Planning (including delineation between business and strategic planning) • Marketing of goods and services (product versus service pricing, distribution, and promotion) • Accounting and financial management • Budgeting • Risk management


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3.5 Pharmacy Law and Regulatory Affairs Includes: • Legal and regulatory principles applied to pharmacy practice (e.g., dispensing, professional services, and drug use control). • Administrative, civil, and criminal liability • Authority, responsibilities, and operation of agencies and entities that promulgate or administer laws, regulations, or guidances related to practice and prescription/nonprescription medications


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3.6 Biostatistics and Research Design Includes: • Research study designs used in medical research • Application and interpretation of statistical tests and data collection instruments


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3.7 Ethical Decision Making Includes: • Principles of biomedical ethics • Ethical dilemmas in the delivery of patientcentered care including: conflicts of interest end of life decision making use of codes of ethics oaths of the pharmacist • Research ethics

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3.8 Professional Communication Includes: • Communication abilities (appropriate verbal, nonverbal, visual, and written) with patient and caregivers (including empathetic communication) • Communication abilities with other health care providers • Assertiveness and problemsolving techniques in relation to difficult social and professional conflicts and situations • Measurement and use of health literacy in pharmacy communications • Development of cultural competency in pharmacy personnel such that services are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patient populations

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3.9 Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice Includes: • Health, illness, and sick role behaviors of patients • Principles of behavior modification • Patient adherence to therapies and recommendations • Caregiving throughout the life cycle • Death and dying


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3.10 Medication Dispensing and Distribution Systems Includes: • Systems for safe and effective preparation and dispensing of medications in all types of practice settings • Role of automation and technology (pharmacy informatics and information management) • Continuous quality improvement programs or protocols in the medicationuse process, including identification and prevention of medication errors, and establishment of error reduction programs


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3.11 History of Pharmacy Includes: • Overview of the evolution of pharmacy as a distinct profession • Major milestones and contributors in the evolution of pharmacy


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Area 4.0 Clinical Sciences The topics in clinical sciences are intended to address the integration and application of foundational coursework encountered throughout the professional curriculum with advanced clinical coursework.



Area 4.0 Clinical Sciences

4.1 EvidenceBased Practice Includes: • Interpret and evaluate drug information • Apply drug information skills for delivery of medication therapy management • Evaluate reliability of various sources of information • Interpret guidelines as they apply in a clinical setting • Utilize core scientific and systemsbased knowledge in patient care decisionmaking process • Utilize basic science principles in the development and/or implementation of drug treatment protocols and clinical practice guidelines • Evaluate clinical trials that validate clinical appropriateness


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4.2 Clinical Pathophysiology Includes: • Apply concepts of pathophysiology to clinical decision making


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4.3 Clinical Pharmacokinetics Includes: • Utilize pharmacokinetics to calculate, evaluate, and individualize drug therapy • Interpret clinical pharmacokinetics of commonly used and lowtherapeuticindex drugs


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4.4 Clinical Pharmacogenomics Includes: Utilize pharmacogenomics to calculate, evaluate, and individualize drug therapy


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4.5 Disease Prevention and Population Health Includes: • Recognize the proper use of nonpharmacologic therapies, including complementary and alternative medicines • Describe measures to promote wellness and disease prevention • Identify the role of immunizations in disease prevention and health promotion


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4.6 Patient Assessment Includes: • Describe techniques for obtaining a comprehensive patient history • Describe how to perform patient physical assessment (e.g., inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation) • Differentiate between normal physical assessment findings and modifications caused by common disease states and drug therapy • Interpret common clinical laboratory values and diagnostic tests • Perform calculations related to patient assessment (e.g., BMI, CrCl, lab adjustments) • Describe the use of OTC pointofcare testing devices (e.g., glucometers, pregnancy tests, home testing for HbA1c, drug screening)


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Please answer the following questions based on your college or school’s program requirements.

4.7 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Decision Making Includes: • Make therapy recommendations based upon dosage calculations, specific uses, and indications of drugs and nutritional / support therapy • Interpret therapeutic drug concentrations • Assess pharmocotherapy considering contraindications, therapeutic duplications, dietary interactions, adverse drug reactions and interactions, and allergies • Triage and identify when to refer to other health professionals • Design patientcentered, culturallyrelevant treatment plans • Apply evidencebased decision making to patient care • Recommend nonprescription and natural product therapies • Identify and manage drug toxicity, drug induced disease, and misuse or abuse • Monitor drug therapy for misuse, abuse, and nonadherence


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Part 3: Experiential and Overall PharmD Requirements

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What is the total number of professional credit hours required to complete a PharmD degree from your college or school of pharmacy?

Are there practice sites that are required for IPPEs?

If yes, please list the required practice sites:

How many contact or credit hours are appropriated to the required practice sites?

For APPE’s are there required experiential clerkships?

How many Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) contact or credit hours are required to complete a PharmD degree at your college or school?Contact hours:

Credit hours:

How many contact or credit hours of structured simulation (medium and high fidelity manikins, computer simulations, standardized patients, role playing, OSCEs) in the IPPE experience are allocated?Contact hours:

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How many Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) contact or credit hours are required to complete a PharmD degree at your college or school?Contact hours:

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Please list the required clerkships:

It is important that personal and professional development opportunities are included in the overall PharmD experience. For informational purposes please provide information for this area.

Finally, are there any subjects not addressed in this survey that are required for the completion of your college or school’s PharmD program?

If yes, how many contact or credit hours are appropriated to the required clerkships?Contact hours:

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Part 4: Personal and Professional Development Requirements

Personal and Professional Development Includes: • Selfawareness and lifelong learning • Traits of a professional/profession • Professional socialization (professionalization) • Leadership • Working effectively in groups • Interprofessional care (contrast with multiprofessional care) • Importance of pharmacist involvement in pharmacy organizations and in regulatory, state, and federal issues • Patients’ and other health care providers’ perceptions of pharmacy and pharmacists’ capabilities


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