Goals and Competencies

Goals and Competencies

The goal of the Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy is to prepare pharmacists for leadership positions in health care. In order to accomplish this goal, the program will provide students with the knowledge, skills and experiences necessary to assume a variety of roles and responsibilities. Our graduates should be able to serve as vibrant, committed professionals with a focus on improving patients’ health, healthcare delivery and the profession of pharmacy. This will occur through both didactic education and experiential opportunities in class and in the workplace.

• Be able to envision, plan, implement, coordinate and monitor pharmaceutical care and operational services
• Be effective stewards of human resources including recruitment, mentoring, evaluating and leading professionals and technical support staff
• Be adaptive to changes and demands for health system pharmacy practice and the health care environment in general;
• Be strategic thinkers and planners who see challenges as opportunities to contribute to improving health care delivery
• Be consistently ethical and professional in their practice
• Be clinically competent in the practice of pharmacy
• Understand and assume the managerial and financial responsibilities in health system pharmacies
• Have a vision for the future practice of pharmacy and possess the tools to realize that vision.