2024-2025 Catalog
Pharmacy (PHDR-PD-PHR) PharmD
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Doctor of Pharmacy
The College of Pharmacy prepares students to become innovative healthcare leaders who provide the highest level of patient care in a complex and uncertain world. Our recently transformed curriculum and facilities give students a balanced foundation in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, social and administrative, and clinical sciences. Led by exceptional faculty, integration of these sciences throughout the didactic curriculum, co-curricular activities, and a progressive experiential sequence culminates in a learning experience for students that is balanced, patient-focused, team-based, and diverse. Ferris Pharmacy graduates are well prepared for a career in Pharmacy whether they choose to practice in a rural community drug store, a hospital pharmacy, an ambulatory clinic, or an urban level I trauma center.
The Doctor of Pharmacy program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). (acpe-accredit.org)
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1.0.0 Domain 1 - Foundational Knowledge
1.1.0 Learner (Learner) - Apply knowledge from the foundational sciences (i.e., pharmaceutical, social/behavioral/administrative, and clinical sciences) to evaluate the scientific literature, explain drug action, solve therapeutic problems, and advance population health and patient-centered care.
1.1.1 Apply the basic principles, mechanisms, and metabolic sequelae of human disease.
1.1.2 Apply the chemical basis of drug action, with an emphasis on the application of physico-chemical properties.
1.1.3 Apply the mechanisms of therapeutic and adverse drug action and interaction, and application of these principles to therapeutic decision-making.
1.1.4 Apply the clinical laboratory data to disease state management, including screening, diagnosis, progression, and treatment evaluation.
1.1.5 Apply the mathematical skills required to accurately dose therapeutic drug regimens and determine dosage preparation (including extemporaneously compounded dosage forms) that are therapeutically sound and safe for patient use.
1.1.6 Describe the physico-chemical properties and formulation of drugs in various sterile and non-sterile dosage forms when selecting drug product for the patient.
1.1.7 Prepare sterile and non-sterile prescriptions that are pharmaceutically accurate regarding drug product and dose, free from contamination, and appropriately formulated for patient use.
1.1.8 Apply the federal and appropriate state-specific statues that regulate the practice of pharmacy, along with relevant civil and contract law.
1.1.9 Applying the structure, function, and properties of microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi) responsible for human disease, and design rational approaches to their containment or eradication.
1.1.10 Apply knowledge in foundational sciences to solve therapeutic problems and advance patient-centered care.
1.1.11 Analyze the medical evidence related to prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, and alternative therapies.
1.1.12 Analyze emerging theories, information, and technologies that may impact patient-centered and population-based care.
2.0.0 Domain 2 - Essentials for Practice and Care
2.1.0 Patient-Centered Care (Caregiver) - Provide patient-centered care as the medication expert (e.g., collect and interpret evidence, prioritize, formulate assessments and recommendations, implement, monitor, and adjust plans, and document activities).
2.1.1 Collect subject and objective evidence (including socioeconomic and cultural) related to patient, medications, allergies/adverse reactions, and disease.
2.1.2 Interpret relevant medical evidence and patient data.
2.1.3 Prioritize patient needs.
2.1.4 Formulate evidence-based care plans, and care transition with consideration of the unique needs of the patient while emphasizing the need for patients to take responsibility for the control of their health.
2.1.5 Implement patient-centered care plans.
2.1.6 Monitor the patient and adjust care plan as needed.
2.1.7 Document patient care related activities.
2.1.8 Appropriately triage patients to the proper health care provider and assist them in navigating the healthcare system.
2.2.0 Medication Use Systems Management (Manager) - Manage patient healthcare needs using human, financial, technology, and physical resources to optimize the safety and efficacy of medication use systems.
2.2.1 Competently perform in all areas of a typical medication use systems (i.e., procurement, storage, prescribing, transcription, dispensing, administration, monitoring, documentation, transitions of care and emergency preparedness).
2.2.2 Utilize informatics to optimize the medication use systems.
2.2.3 Utilize human, financial, and physical resources to optimize the medication use system.
2.2.4 Apply standards, guidelines best practices, and established processes related to safe and effective medication use in different pharmacy practice settings.
2.2.5 Utilize continuous quality improvement techniques in the medication use process.
2.3.0 Health and Wellness (Promoter) - Design prevention, intervention, and educational strategies for individuals and communities to manage chronic disease and improve health and wellness.
2.3.1 Design systematic preventative care, using risk assessment, risk reduction, screening, education, and immunizations to improve health and wellness.
2.3.2 Evaluate personal, social, economic, and environmental conditions to maximize health and wellness.
2.4.0 Population-Based Care (Provider) - Describe how population-based care influences patient-centered care and influences the development of practice guidelines and evidence-based best practices.
2.4.1 Assess the healthcare status and needs of a targeted patient population.
2.4.2 Develop and provide an evidence-based approach to population health management that considers the cost, care, access, and satisfaction needs of a targeted patient population.
3.0.0 Domain 3 - Approach to Practice and Care
3.1.0 Problem Solving (Problem Solver) - Identify problems; explore and prioritize potential strategies; and design, implement, and evaluate a viable solution.
3.1.1 Identify and define the relevant problems.
3.1.2 Define goals and alternative goals.
3.1.3 Explore multiple solutions by organizing, prioritizing, and defending each possible solution.
3.1.4 Anticipate positive and negative outcomes by reviewing assumptions, inconsistencies, and unintended consequences.
3.1.5 Recommend the most viable solution, including monitoring parameters, to measure intended and unintended consequences.
3.1.6 Reflect on the solution recommended and its effects to improve future performance.
3.2.0 Educator (Educator) - Educate all audiences by determining the most effective and enduring ways to impart information and assess understanding.
3.2.1 Conduct a learning needs assessment of constituents who would benefit from pharmacist-delivered education (e.g., patients/caregivers, technicians and interns, pharmacy students, fellow pharmacists, other healthcare providers, and legislators).
3.2.2 Develop or select the most effective techniques/strategies to achieve learning objectives.
3.2.3 Demonstrate the ability to coordinate educational efforts with other healthcare providers, when appropriate, to ensure a consistent, comprehensive, and team-based encounter.
3.2.4 Ensure instructional content contains the most current information relevant for the intended audience.
3.2.5 Adapt instruction and deliver to the intended audience.
3.2.6 Deliver and obtain feedback to assess learning and promote goal setting and goal attainment for the intended audience.
3.3.0 Inter-Professional Collaboration (Collaborator) - Actively participate and engage as a healthcare team member by demonstrating mutual respect, understanding, and values patient care needs.
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3.3.2 Define clear roles and responsibilities for healthcare team members to optimize outcomes for specific patient care encounters.
3.3.3 Communicate in a manner that values team-based decision making and shows respect for contributions from other areas of expertise.
3.3.4 Perform effectively and ethically as a member of an inter-professional functioning team (one that includes the patient, family, and community).
3.4.0 Cultural Sensitivity (Includer) - Recognize social determinants of health to diminish disparities and inequities in access to quality care.
3.4.1 Recognize the collective identity and norms of different cultures without overgeneralizing (i.e., recognize and avoid biases and stereotyping).
3.4.2 Demonstrate an attitude that is respectful of different cultures.
3.4.3 Assess a patient’s health literacy and modify communication strategies to meet the patient’s needs.
3.4.4 Consider cultural issues in all aspects of practice to reduce health disparities.
3.5.0 Communicator (Communicator) - Effectively communicate verbally and nonverbally when interacting with an individual, group, or organization.
3.5.1 Interview patients using an organized structure, specific questioning techniques (e.g., motivational interviewing), and medical terminology adapted for the audience.
3.5.2 Actively listen and ask appropriate open and closed-ended questions to gather information.
3.5.3 Use available technology and other media to effectively communicate and document.
3.5.4 Use effective interpersonal skills to establish rapport and build trusting relationships.
3.5.5 Communicate assertively, persuasively, confidently, clearly in verbal nonverbal, and written form commensurate with professional practice setting.
4.0.0 Domain 4 - Personal and Professional Development
4.1.0 Self-Awareness (Self-Aware) - Examine and reflect on personal knowledge, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, and emotions that could enhance or limit personal and professional growth.
4.1.1 Self-assess understanding and abilities and engage in help seeking behaviors and adapt learning strategies accordingly.
4.1.2 Identify, create, implement, evaluate, and modify plans for personal and professional development for the purpose of individual growth.
4.1.3 Demonstrate engagement, confidence, self-direction, ownership, flexibility, and accountability in all learning and professional situations.
4.1.4 Develop engagement in activities that promote professional citizenship.
4.1.5 Identify constructive strategies to detect and manage personal and professional stress that impact pharmacy practice and personal health.
4.2.0 Leadership (Leader) - Demonstrate responsibility for creating and achieving shared goals, regardless of position.
4.2.1 Demonstrate the ability to lead a project, organization, team, or event.
4.2.2 Exhibit the ability to effectively communicate expectations, affect change, build consensus, appropriately utilize personnel and resources, and develop a shared set of goals.
4.2.3 Effectively function in a team or group to achieve or enhance goals and objectives.
4.3.0 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Innovator) - Engage in innovative activities by using creative thinking to envision better ways to accomplishing professional goals.
4.3.1 Demonstrate creative design, decision making, and solutions when confronted with novel problems, challenges, or unmet needs.
4.3.2 Develop a plan for a pharmacy service which includes organization, risk assessment and mitigation and resource identification and feasibility.
4.4.0 Professionalism (Professional) - Exhibit behaviors and values that are consistent with the trust given to the profession by patients, other healthcare providers, and society.
4.4.1 Demonstrate compassion, empathy, altruism, integrity, trustworthiness, flexibility, and respect.
4.4.2 Deliver patient-centered care in a manner that is legal, ethical, and compassionate.
New Student Admission Requirements
Admissions to the Doctor of Pharmacy program is a holistic process that considers a variety of factors critical to success as a student and pharmacist. As admission to the program is competitive, completion of pre-pharmacy requirements does not guarantee admission to the College of Pharmacy. Application to the Doctor of Pharmacy program is required to be done through the Pharmacy College Application Service (PharmCAS.org). Admissions criteria include markers of the student’s ability to meet the rigors of the professional curriculum as well as the evolving, patient-centered practice of pharmacy. The following factors are considered in admission decisions:
- Academic achievement in required pre-pharmacy courses. Grades lower than a C- (1.7) are not accepted for any pre-pharmacy course.
- Results of an in-person interview, including verbal and written components.
- Ability to meet the College of Pharmacy Technical Standards.
- Personal statement.
- Two letters of recommendation
- Results of a criminal background check that demonstrates the applicant does not have convictions identified in Michigan Public Acts 27, 28, and 29; or those which preclude a significant number of College of Pharmacy experiential assignments.
Transfer Student Admission Requirements
Transfer students are evaluated on a case by case basis.
All Major Requirements - 137 Credits Required
Didactic Electives - 6 Credits Required
Didactic Electives must be completed by the end of third year. These courses are used tocalculate the major 2.00 GPA requirement. Didactic Electives within this section are not taught every academic year. A listing of available electives to choose from will be provided to students each academic year.
Advanced Practice Pharmacy Experiences (APPE) Electives - 12 Credits Required
These courses are graded as pass/fail and are not used to calculate the major 2.00 GPA requirement. Notes
- Students who return to the university after an interrupted enrollment, not including summer semester, must normally meet the requirements of the curriculum which are in effect at the time of their return, not the requirements which were in effect when they were originally admitted.
- Additional dismissal rules and co-curricular requirements can be found in the student handbook.
- Credit Variance - Credits required may vary based on course placement, prerequisites, etc. If you have questions, contact your advisor.
Pre-Pharmacy Requirements
- General Chemistry Credit Hours: 8 to 10 with Labs
- Organic Chemistry Credit Hours: 8 to 10 with Labs
- General Biology Credit Hours: 8 with Labs
- Anatomy and Physiology Credit Hours: 8 with Labs
- Microbiology Credit Hours: 3 to 4 with Lab
- Calculus Credit Hours: 4
- Statistics Credit Hours: 3
- English Composition Credit Hours: 6
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- Writing Intensive Course Credit Hours: 6
- Principles of Microeconomics Credit Hours: 3
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- Principles of Macroeconomics Credit Hours: 3
- Introduction to Psychology Credit Hours: 3
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- Introductory Sociology Credit Hours: 3
- Speech Credit Hours: 3
- Culture Competency Electives Credit Hours: 9
Graduation Requirements
In order to graduate from Ferris State University, students must meet both University and Programmatic Graduation Requirements. University Graduation Requirements
These are the minimum graduation requirements for a professional degree at Ferris State University:
- A minimum of 70 percent of the degree requirements must be earned from Ferris State University to meet the Residency requirement.
- Degree requirements shall be completed within 6 years from first enrollment in a professional course following admission.
Programmatic Graduation Requirements
These are the additional graduation requirements mandated by the program:
- All requirements as specified in the All Major Requirements section must be met.
- This includes all specific course (e.g., minimum grade), curricular, and programmatic (e.g., co-curricular) requirements that must be successfully met prior to graduation.
- A 2.00 or higher cumulative Ferris State University GPA is required at the end of the first year (P1), second year (P2), and third year (P3) in order to continue the Pharmacy program.
- A 2.00 or higher cumulative professional GPA is required at the end of the final year of the program.
Suggested Semester Layout
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Third Year (P3)
Six credits of Didactic Electives must be completed by the end of the third year (P3). See the Didactic Electives section for a list of courses. |
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