April 2008
JACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Preprofessional - Pharmacy
This is only a guide.
Students should contact the transfer school for program advising
or
e-mail
Dr.
Patricia Visser, Professor of Biology at JCC or by phone at
517-796-8533.
General Information
Pharmacists are experts
in the science of medications and the art of medication therapy.
Pharmaceutical care encompasses the full range of pharmacists skills,
knowledge and abilities in providing medication services to patients. The
principal goal of pharmaceutical care is to achieve definite outcomes from
medication use which improves patients' quality of life. These outcomes
include: 1) cure of a disease; 2) elimination or reduction of symptoms; 3)
arresting or slowing a disease; and 4) prevention of disease; 5) diagnosis
of disease; and 6) desired alterations in physiological processes, all with
minimal risk to patients.
A student must possess
the doctor of pharmacy (Pharm D) degree to qualify for the licensure
examination. Please note, in July 1992, a majority of the nation's schools
and colleges of pharmacy voted to move toward awarding the Doctor of
Pharmacy degree as the only professional degree in pharmacy.
A Pharm D program
customarily requires six years of college study. This includes 60 credit
hours of pre-pharmacy study at a four-year college or community college. A
Pharm D program designed as a post baccalaureate program, generally exceeds
six years of college study.
Admission
Requirements
·
Admission to
a pharmacy program is usually contingent upon successful completion of a
pre-pharmacy curriculum.
·
Many
programs require their applicants to take the Pharmacy College Admission
Test (PCAT).
·
Applicants
seeking admissions to a pharmacy program should contact those schools they
are interested in attending for information on specific prerequisites and
admission requirements.
For additional
information contact:
American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy
1426 Prince
Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2841
Web-site:
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Pharmacy programs
are offered at the following Michigan Universities:
