Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy
Dr. Pamella Ochoa, Dean
The Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy (FCOP) offers a four-year professional doctorate degree program, the Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.). Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the national licensure examinations. Those who successfully pass the licensure examinations are qualified to work as a pharmacist.
Vision and Mission
Our vision is to foster an expanded community of servant-leaders in pharmacy practice, education, scholarship, and public health with an emphasis on disadvantaged populations. We reach towards this vision through our mission of cultivating pharmacy professionals and advancing healthcare through collaborative education, scholarship, and service.
Core Values
The College embraces the following core values as part of its academic and professional culture. The core values are used to guide all our interactions with all current and future stakeholders:
- Integrity: we strive to do the right thing;
- Learner-Focused: we provide an environment that supports academic and personal success;
- Resiliency: we improve upon successes, learn from challenges, and grow from the unanticipated.
Pharm.D. Program Learning Outcomes
The Pharm.D. curriculum is designed to develop 12 key skills and characteristics necessary for FCOP graduates to enter the profession and practice at the highest level of their credentials. These Program Learning Outcomes influence the development of curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities within FCOP:
- Scientific Thinking (Learner): Seek, analyze, integrate, and apply foundational knowledge of medications and pharmacy practice (biomedical; pharmaceutical; social, behavioral, administrative; and clinical sciences; drug classes; and digital health).
- Problem Solving Process (Problem-Solver): Use problem-solving and critical thinking skills, along with an innovative mindset, to address challenges and to promote positive change.
- Communication (Communicator): Actively engage, listen, and communicate verbally, nonverbally, and in writing, when interacting or educating with an individual, group, or organization.
- Cultural and Structural Humility (Ally): Mitigate health disparities by considering, recognizing, and navigating cultural and structural factors (e.g., social determinants of health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) to improve access and health outcomes.
- Person-Centered Care (Provider): Provide whole-person care to individuals as the medication specialist using the Pharmacist’s Patient Care Process.
- Advocacy (Advocate): Promote the best interests of patients and/or the pharmacy profession within healthcare settings and at the community, state, or national level.
- Medication-use Process Stewardship (Steward): Optimize patient healthcare outcomes using human, financial, technological, and physical resources to improve the safety, efficacy, and environmental impact of medication use systems.
- Interprofessional Collaboration (Collaborator): Actively engage and contribute as a healthcare team member by demonstrating core interprofessional competencies.
- Population Health and Wellness (Promoter): Assess factors that influence the health and wellness of a population and develop strategies to address those factors.
- Leadership (Leader): Demonstrate the ability to influence and support the achievement of shared goals, regardless of one’s role.
- Self-awareness (Self-aware): Examine, reflect on, and address personal and professional attributes (e.g., knowledge, metacognition, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, help-seeking strategies, and emotional intelligence) that could enhance or limit growth, development, and professional identity formation.
- Professionalism (Professional): Exhibit attitudes and behaviors that embody a commitment to building and maintaining trust with patients, other health care providers, and society.