Curriculum & Academics
The College of Pharmacy offers an original and progressive curriculum that blends classroom and practice experiences to give graduates the knowledge, skills and professional attitude to succeed as a pharmacist.
Student-centered learning is a critical component as at least 30 percent of pharmacy courses are offered through active learning exercises.
The pharmacy curriculum emphasizes the College’s core values of excellence, innovation, respect, care, and collaboration, and it uniquely offers an education that optimizes interprofessional learning.
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The curriculum is organized to give each year a central theme that serves as a foundation for each successive year. Courses are developed and integrated to establish the annual theme and to allow the opportunity for students to learn information in the classroom and then to apply that knowledge and to practice pharmacy skills in experiential sites.
Curriculum Revisions
The College of Pharmacy curriculum made recent updates to:
- provide better opportunities for interprofessional training of students, and
- encourage faculty to explore and integrate new technology and new pedagogical methods that enhance content delivery and student engagement.
In addition, the academic calendar was replaced with one that has 16-week semesters and a three-week “Maymester” term.
Overview of Courses in Pharm.D. Program
Class of 2026 *
First year
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 1 – 1 credit hour
- Experiential Education 1 – 1 credit hour
- Evidence Based Medicine – 2 credit hours
- Human Anatomy Physiology and Pathophysiology 1 – 5 credit hours
- Interprofessional Education 1 – 1 credit hour
- Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences – 3 credit hours
- Pharmaceutical Calculations – 2.5 credit hours
- Pharmacy Skills 1 – 2 credit hours
17.5 total credit hours
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 2 – 0.5 credit hours
- Experiential Education 2 – 0.5 credit hours
- Health Care Delivery System – 3 credit hours
- Human Anatomy Physiology and Pathophysiology 2 – 4 credit hours
- Interprofessional Education 2 – 1.5 credit hours
- Pharmacodynamics/Pharmacokinetics – 4 credit hours
- Pharmacy Skills 2 – 1.5 credit hours
- Immunology and Biotechnology – 3 credit hours
17.5 total credit hours
- Profession Ready – 0.5 credit hours
- Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences – 0.5 credit hours
- Pharmacy Elective (choice) – 1 credit hour
2 total credit hours
Second year
- Personal & Professional Development for Pharmacy 3 – 0.5 credit hours
- Experiential Education 3 – 2 credit hours
- Pharmaceutics – 3 credit hours
- Pharmaceutics Lab – 2.5 credit hours
- Interprofessional Education 3 – 1 credit hour
- Pharmacy Skills 3 – 2 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy 1: OTC/Self-Care – 3.5 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Introduction to Chronic Diseases – 3.5 credit hours
18 total credit hours
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 4 – 0.5 credit hours
- Experiential Education 4 – 2 credit hours
- Parenteral Products – 2 credit hours
- Parenteral Products Lab – 2 credit hours
- Practice Management 1 – 2 credit hours
- Interprofessional Education 4 – 1 credit hour
- Pharmacy Skills 4 – 1.5 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Nephrology – 3 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Endocrine – 4 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Advanced Cardiology – 3.5 credit hours
21.5 total credit hours
- Medication Therapy Management Certification – 0.5 credit hours
- Pharmacy Elective – 1 credit hour
1.5 total credit hours
Third year
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 5 – 0.5 credit hours
- Experiential Education 5 – 2 credit hours
- Practice Management 2 – 2 credit hours
- Interprofessional Educations 5 – 1.5 credit hours
- Pharmacy Skills 5 – 1.5 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Neuro/Psych – 4 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Gastroenterology – 3 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Infectious Diseases – 3.5 credit hours
- Elective – 1 credit hour
19 total credit hours
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 6 – 0.5 credit hours
- Experiential Education 6 – 2 credit hours
- Pharmacy Law and Ethics – 3 credit hours
- Interprofessional Education 6 – 1.5 credit hours
- Pharmacy Skills 6 – 1 credit hour
- Pharmacotherapy: Critical Care – 3.5 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Immunology/Oncology – 4 credit hours
- Pharmacotherapy: Special Populations – 3 credit hours
- Elective – 1 credit hour
19.5 total credit hours
- APPE Ready – 2 credit hours
- Elective – 1 credit hour
3 total credit hours
Fourth year
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 7 (fall) – 0.5 credit hours
- Acute Care/Internal Medicine – 7 credit hours
- Advanced Hospital Practice – 3.5 credit hours
- Advanced Community Practice – 3.5 credit hours
- Ambulatory Care – 7 credit hours
- Clinical Selective – 3.5 credit hours
- Underserved Populations – 3.5 credit hours
- Elective – 3.5 credit hours
- Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 8 (spring) – 0.5 credit hours
32.5 total credit hours
Notes
* The curriculum is subject to change based on continuous quality improvement
Electives can be taken at different points in time based on availability; all students must complete five credit hours of electives before starting the P4 year.
Details about the curriculum are in the NEOMED Compass, our student handbook and class catalog.
See next
- Three ways to become a pharmacist at NEOMED
- How to apply to pharmacy school at NEOMED
- Visit NEOMED
