An Introduction to our Non-traditional Doctor of Pharmacy Program

• Frequently Asked Questions

Getting Started

• Lost Matriculated Status? Click here to see how to restart the program.
  
  
• Student Handbook on Prior Learning Assessment: How to Develop a Portfolio Updated April 2009
  

  One of the challenges to students is to develop a well organized and verified portfolio. It will be important for you to organize your submission around themes: discrete types of professional learning and experience in pharmacy. You might not have thought of some of the categories of learning you have done.
  
  In order to help you classify your prior learning, here is a document that contains most of the "themes" of successful submissions by past students. I hope it helps!
  
  Here is a document that contains an abbreviated example portfolio submission.

  
  
• Information about the admission process
  
  
• Fee Waiver Information and Forms

How to Graduate

• Are you planning to graduate soon? Here is the information on how to apply for graduation.
  

Why is the External Doctor of Pharmacy Degree Program Ending?

Although we enjoy working with adults and we are extremely proud of our graduates (over 200), it is apparent that the pool of applicants is diminishing. The program was originally designed to meet the needs of pharmacists in Washington, and it appears that those who really want the degree have either enrolled or graduated. The rational phase-out of such a unique program is a challenge. Entering students and those already in the program will be asked to have completed the program's:

• Phase I basic knowledge courses are closed for registration.
• Phase II pharmacotherapy modules with their associated workshops are now complete and closed, and
• Phase III clerkships by the summer of 2011.

Course Information

• Course Instructors and their email addresses
  
  
• UW Course Registration Numbers (CRNs) are here
  
  
• When you register for a course, what do you receive in the mail and what is online?
  
  
• How do I arrange to take an exam?
  
  
  • You may find the instructions & forms for obtaining a proctor for exams here:
    • University of Washington Proctor Instructions
    • Washington State University Proctor Instructions
      
      
• Phase I Courses
  
  
  • Information regarding Phase I prior learning. Have you already taken a Phase I course?
    
    
  • The Medical Literature Evaluation Course Syllabus
    
    
  • The Biostatistics Course Manual
    • Corrections to Biostatistics Text
      
      
  • The Pharmacokinetics Course Syllabus
    NOTE: Updated May 2008. Beginning now, the required textbook for Pharmacy 494 is Bauer LA, Applied Clinical Pharmacokinetics, McGraw-Hill, 2008 (Second edition, published 2008; ISBN 0071476288). Students registered prior to Summer Quarter 2008 can continue to use the First Edition to complete the course and take the final examination.
    
    

• Phase II Courses
  
  
  • Pharmacotherapeutic Syllabi 
    
    
    • We have put instructions for obtaining a proctor for the modules in here
      
      
    • We have put instructions for obtaining a proctor for the modules in here
      
      
  • The Weekend Workshop: Information and Schedule. The final workshop dates are posted   
    
    
    • Dates for the weekend workshop 
      
      
    • Important information regarding exams & the weekend workshop
      
      
    • Guidelines for your Drug Use Evaluation are available here
      
      
  • These can be useful for your weekend workshops:
    
    
    • Guidelines for organizing and evaluating drugs for formulary inclusion are available here (i.e., how to do a formulary workup) 
      
      
    • Data Management & Problem Solving: The Pharmacist's Workup of Drug Therapy (PWODT)
      
      
    • A SOAP note evaluation form
      
      
    • A more professional presentation:
      • Hints for Professional Presentations handout
      • Looking for advice to help your slides and overheads look better? Look here.
        
        
• Phase III Courses
  
  
  • The Clerkship: Information about Our Clerkships or Practicums
    
    
  • The Practicum Manual Updated May 2008. You must now complete nine months of rotations (including those waived) and you must have experiences in general medicine acute care, health system administration or a second hospital, clinic-based ambulatory care, and a community pharmacy ambulatory care.

Helpful Information for the Student

• Hints for a Patient Workup
• How to Formally Present a Review of a Study: Hints
• The Consult Note: How to Write a Consult Note with Examples

Useful Links

• Free Medline!
• HealthLinks at the University of Washington
• MedWeb
• Health A to Z
• A Clinical Calculator
• Desktop Reference Tools--Dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, etc.
• Several Psychiatric Syllabi