- Address:
- 575 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
- Phone:
- 765-494-1368
- Website:
- http://www.pharmacy.purdue.edu
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- Company Information:
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The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the twenty-first century will continue to be dedicated to educating pharmacists so that they enter the profession providing pharmaceutical care to patients both as individuals and as populations. This will require a strong foundation in the pharmaceutical sciences to serve as the basis for problem-solving in professional practice. All instruction will take place in an environment that emphasizes curiosity, scientific method, creative thinking, problem-solving, and effective verbal and written communication. There will be an emphasis on functioning as a professional in pharmacy throughout the curriculum. Experiential instruction will be initiated in institutional settings where care of specific populations of patients is best learned and will be extended to community and long-term care facilities where most patients receive care. The administrative center for the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Indiana University Medical Center will serve as the central site for coordination and instruction for the experiential portion of the curriculum, although individual sites will be located throughout the state.
A second thrust to be continued into the twenty-first century is the integrated interdisciplinary approach to research and graduate training in the pharmaceutical sciences. This thrust will be in two basic areas. The first is research at the interface between chemistry and biology that can be addressed using c
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