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  7. The Pharm.D. is a professional degree requiring four years of study in the College after completion of at least two years of pre-pharmacy study in a community college or liberal arts college. (Applicants who have completed work in a college of pharmacy, including those who have earned a B.S. degree in pharmacy, are considered for admission at advanced levels.)

    The focus of the program is to educate students about the practice of pharmacy, but the program is broad enough to allow students to gain employment in fields outside of pharmacy practice. The program includes extensive clinical training and may be adapted to prepare students for graduate study. Graduates are qualified to practice pharmacy and are eligible for examination for licensure as a pharmacist.

    The Pharm.D. program enables graduates to:

    • understand and appreciate the delivery of comprehensive health care and the contribution of each health profession to patient care;
    • understand the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and the rational selection of drugs;
    • understand and appreciate the social, emotional, and psychological aspects of disease;
    • communicate effectively with other health professionals and patients;
    • know what factors affect initiating, maintaining, modifying, or discontinuing drug therapy;
    • understand pharmacokinetic principles well enough to improve dosage regimens for individual patients;
    • retrieve, interpret, and report drug information from pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences and apply the information to specific patient care situations;
    • develop a patient data base from a patient interview and patient chart, and from communications with other health professionals;
    • design, implement, conduct, and evaluate research studies on drugs and/or patients in a specific area of interest;
    • be an effective health care educator;
    • demonstrate administrative and organizational skills and understand group dynamics; and
    • demonstrate professional maturity and personal responsibility to patients and other health professionals.


    Admission Criteria top

    Pre-Pharmacy Curriculum top

    Before being admitted to the Pharm.D. program, students must complete the following courses:

    SubjectSemestersBiology (general including laboratory)1Chemistry

    General and qualitative, including laboratories2
    Organic, including laboratories2English composition1Physics (general, including laboratories)2Calculus1Humanities or foreign language2Social science2Human anatomy1Medical microbiology (including laboratory)1Genetics1

    At least one year must be completed in the U.S. or Canada. Applicants must have at least some relevant health care/patient experience. Those with no previous accumulated credits in a pharmacy college are considered for admission to the first year of the Pharm.D. program.

    Admission to the Pharm.D. program is based on evidence submitted by the applicant attesting to his/her ability to successfully complete the program requirements. The evidence must include: 1.) copies of academic records from all institutions of higher education attended; 2.) the applicant’s personal statement describing career objectives and reasons for applying to the Pharm.D. program; 3.) Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) scores; 4.) significant health care experience in paid or volunteer settings; and 5.) two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from an employer. (Other acceptable letter of recommendation sources include recent faculty, or a graduate student instructor.)

    Applicants whose native language is not English must demonstrate proficiency in speaking and writing English with an acceptable score on the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB), including the oral interview, or the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), including the TOEFL Test of Spoken English. Minimum scores of 85 on the MELAB or 253 on the computerized TOEFL are necessary. Applicants whose native language is not English and who have attended schools and/or college in the U.S. are not exempt from this requirement.

    Applicants also must show evidence that there is a reasonable expectation they will complete all pre-pharmacy requirements before enrolling in the Pharm.D. program. (See Pre-Pharmacy Curriculum, for details.) Applicants may be admitted while they are completing these requirements, however, enrollment in the program is contingent on successfully completing these requirements. Failure to do so will result in revocation of admission.

    Applicants may apply as early as the fall term of their second year of college. However, the Admissions Committee will not make an admission decision until grades are received confirming completion of at least three terms of college work, including at least one organic chemistry course.

    If the College of Pharmacy Admissions Committee decides it needs additional information to assess an applicant's qualifications, it may require the applicant to appear for a personal interview. If selected for admission to the Pharm.D. program, the student must be willing to: 1.) Provide record of required immunizations and tests, including inoculation against hepatitis B; 2.) Have reliable transportation available by the beginning of the third (P3) year to facilitate travel to off-campus experiential training sites; and 3.) Obtain and maintain a valid Michigan pharmacy intern educational/training limited license (whether or not the student plans to practice pharmacy in Michigan ultimately).

    Expenses associated with these items (e.g., vaccination and testing costs, license fees, gasoline, parking fees) are the student's responsibility.

    To apply for the Pharm.D. (or B.S. programs), download this Application Request Form from the University of Michigan Admissions Office.

    Admission of Students Who Hold a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy top

    Applicants who have earned a B.S. degree in pharmacy may be admitted with advanced standing in the Pharm.D. program, depending on their qualifications and the availability of places at the proper class level.

    Preferred Admission Program.top

    The College of Pharmacy cooperates with the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A) in a program to guarantee admission to the Pharm.D. program to a limited number of highly qualified entering freshmen. Since many students feel compelled to take a narrowly structured pre-pharmacy program to enhance their qualifications for the Pharm.D. program, the preferred admission program gives already qualified students the freedom to choose more diverse courses during their pre-pharmacy study. Students admitted to the College of LS&A will be considered for the preferred admission program in pharmacy based on their academic qualifications and their desire, expressed on their application to the College of LS&A, to enter the field of pharmacy. The College of Pharmacy Admissions Committee will select students for the program and notify them by April 1. Students must submit their regular University admission application by the deadline specified by the Admissions Office to be considered for this program (contact the Admissions Office directly for the date). Failure to be selected for the preferred admission program does not jeopardize a student? admission to the College of LS&A or the opportunity to apply for regular admission to the Pharm.D. program at a later date. The College of Pharmacy admits up to 20 students each year to the preferred admission Pharm.D. program. Once admitted, students have up to three years to fulfill entry requirements. Students are considered competitive for the program if they score 29 or better on the ACT or 1280 or better on the SAT and maintain a 3.5 grade point average as calculated by the University of Michigan. They also must have completed at least three years of laboratory science (biology, chemistry, and physics) and four years of college preparatory mathematics, all with grades of B or better. Once admitted to the preferred admission program, students must earn a grade of B or better in all prerequisite courses at the University of Michigan. They must confirm their intention to enter the Pharm.D. program by submitting a cross-campus application and required credentials by the equal consideration deadline (February 1) for the fall term when they wish to transfer to the College of Pharmacy. While enrolled in the College of LS&A, students in the preferred admission program must use the counseling and academic advising services of the College of Pharmacy.

    Alliance for Minority Students Program top

    The College of Pharmacy cooperates with Washtenaw Community College (WCC) 2004-2005 University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Bulletin 7 in a program called Alliance for Minority Students, which gives African American, Hispanic American, and Native American students at WCC “preferred consideration” for admission to the Pharm.D. degree program if they have met all requirements. To be eligible for consideration, students must have earned at least 60 transferable credit hours, including required pre-pharmacy courses, and achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2 and a minimum overall GPA of 3.2 for all biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses. Applicants must submit an undergraduate application to the University's Undergraduate Admissions Office by February 1 for the intended fall term of transfer to the College of Pharmacy.

    Two-degree Opportunity Program top

    The College also cooperates in a unique two-degree opportunity program with Marygrove College in Detroit.
    The program lets a limited number of well qualified students earn a bachelors degree from Marygrove and a Pharm.D. degree from the University of Michigan in less time than would be needed to earn each degree separately.

    Candidates for admission to the program must meet the admission requirements of Marygrove College and be approved for an early admission commitment by the College of Pharmacy Admissions Committee. To be approved, candidates must file a written notification of intent to enter the program, accompanied by a recommendation for approval by an appropriate official at Marygrove.

    Participating students begin the program at Marygrove. After successfully completing three academic years of prerequisite courses while living on campus there, they may transfer to the College of Pharmacy. After transferring, students will qualify for a bachelors degree awarded by Marygrove as soon as they have earned enough University of Michigan credit hours to complete the degree requirements. Students will receive a Pharm.D. degree after successfully completing four years of study in the College of Pharmacy. Interested Marygrove students may contact either an academic advisor at Marygrove College, or U-M College of Pharmacy Assistant Dean Valener Perry at (734) 764-5550; vlperry@umich.edu. Curriculum top
    The Pharm.D. curriculum is comprised of the following, four-year course sequence:

    First Year Pharm.D. Courses
    First TermCreditSecond TermCreditPharmaceutical Sci. 4623Pharmaceutical Sci. 4633Soc. & Admin. Sci. 3012Soc. & Admin. Sci. 4202Pharmacy 3511Pharmacy 3302Medicinal Chem. 4093Pharmacy 3522Statistics 350 or 40014Medicinal Chem. 4103Biochemistry 415 or 5153Physiology 5024(or Biology 310)1(4)Total16Total 16

    Second Year Pharm.D. Courses
    First TermCreditSecond TermCreditPharmaceutical Sci. 4644Pharmaceutical Sci. 4652Medicinal Chem. 4113Medicinal Chem. 4123Pharmacology 6593Pharmacology 6604Pharmacy 4313Pharmacy 4323Pharmacy 4511Pharmacy 4521Elective2Soc & Admin. Sci 4762Elective1Total16Total 16

    Third Year Pharm.D. Courses
    First TermCreditSecond TermCreditPharmacy 5313Pharmacy 5323Pharmacy 5511Pharmacy 5521Pharmacy 5612Pharmacy 5622PharmD Investigations24Soc. & Admin. Sci. 5202Soc. & Admin. Sci 5402Elective4Elective4Elective4Total16Total 16

    Fourth Year Pharm.D. Courses
    First TermCreditSecond TermCreditPharmacy 6802Pharmacy 6913Pharmacy 6873Pharmacy 6923Pharmacy 6883Pharmacy 6933Pharmacy 6893Pharmacy 6943Pharmacy 6903Elective4Elective2Total16Total 16

    1. Students may elect Statistics 400 and/or Biology 310 before admission.

    2. College of Pharmacy investigations courses include: Medicinal Chemistry 573, Pharmaceutical Chemistry 571, Pharmaceutics 568, Pharmacognosy 572, Pharmacy 569, and Pharmacy Administration 574. Students also may elect select investigations courses outside the College (e.g., Pharmacology 600) after receiving permission from the Investigations Committee.


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