Doctor of Pharmacy Campus Pathway

Educational Outcomes

Creighton University pharmacy graduates must possess knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to provide patient-centered care. Graduates must be able to provide patient care and serve target populations in cooperation with patients, prescribers, other members of interprofessional health care teams, and the community based upon sound therapeutic principles, evidence-based data, and research skills. In this regard, graduates must demonstrate competence in the following areas:

  1. Ignatian Values - Demonstrate Ignatian values by respecting ethnic and cultural diversity, the inalienable worth of each individual, and the importance of family life.
     
  2. Professionalism, Citizenship, and Leadership - Contribute to the profession and society by demonstrating professionalism, citizenship, and leadership.
     
  3. Communication - Communicate and collaborate effectively with patients, care givers, other health care professionals, and members of the community.
     
  4. Patient Assessment - Obtain, interpret, and evaluate patient information to determine the presence of a disease, medical condition, or drug-related problem(s), assess the need for treatment and/or referral, and identify patient-specific factors that affect health, pharmacotherapy, and/or disease management.
     
  5. Medication Therapy Management - 1.) Manage the drug regimen by monitoring and assessing the patient and/or patient information, recommending drug changes that enhance patient outcomes, collaborating with other health care professionals, providing patient education and documenting patient information and intervention(s). 2.) Develop and implement population-specific, evidence-based disease management programs and protocols.
     
  6. Dispensing Medications - Dispense drug products consistent with patient needs and patient safety in harmony with the law.
     
  7. Drug Information - Ascertain the request for information, retrieve, evaluate, and manage drug and medical information to provide and promote optimal health care.
     
  8. Public Health - Collaborate with health professionals and community groups to promote wellness, prevent disease, and manage medical conditions and reduce health disparities through education, advocacy, and other activities at the population and individual patient levels.
     
  9. Health Systems - Explain and apply the principles and resources associated with pharmacy management, drug distribution, third party payment systems, and participate in interdisciplinary healthcare and administrative activities
     
  10. Critical Thinking and Research - Apply critical thinking and research skills to address pharmacy related problems and issues.
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At the Creighton University Medical Center 2006 Commencement, Fr. John P. Schlegel, S.J., Creighton University President stated, "Your professors have challenged you to be leaders in your professions. As a student, you were expected to go beyond the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. Your patients will expect no less of you. Do not disappoint them. Ethics, service, and excellence: These three words have been consistent across the 127 years of Creighton's existence; they serve as the foundation for what we do today. You will carry these with you; they are marks of a Creighton health care professional."

Victoria F. Roche, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy sciences and senior associate dean at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, received the 2007 Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award presented by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) during its annual meeting in July 2007.