Practice Ready Curriculum

The practice ready curriculum that the Harrison College of Pharmacy offers is one of the things that sets it apart from other pharmacy schools. Being able to know the foundational knowledge on all these disease states. And then directly applying it in a clinical aspect really kind of just opens your eyes, and helps you learn like in a lot of different ways. So it kind of just helps you put into perspective what it would be like in the real world. And I believe that helps prepare you to be a better pharmacists, and also be able to advocate for those patients that have those different problems.

As an intern student here, there's some really cool things that we do in our curriculum. So we have ILE classes, and then we have longitudinal classes. So an ILE Class stands for Integrated Learning experience. And in that class, we learn all of the foundational and clinical knowledge that we would need to learn so we can implement in practice one day. And then in longitudinal classes, that's where we learn more of the real world experiences. We learned about billing policy, procedures, laws.

So aside from those one thing that's really interesting about our curriculum is the workshops that we have, which they're just one week blocks that are dedicated to that one particular thing. So one workshop, you're going to be learning how to give vaccines and you're going to be certified by the end of that week to give vaccines. When we're doing all this case based learning here, and we're kind of getting that in the classroom. When I go out into practice-- When I'm seeing people for the first time, patients I've never interacted with, I feel like I have a good base knowledge and base understanding of kind of how to approach them, how I can talk with them, and just kind of how to work their problems together to get the best health care for them.