Pharmacy

Before you take your first class, you'll take the oath. That's how serious we are about our profession. You may expect to take the Pharmacist's Oath when you finish your course of study. At Creighton, you'll take it at the beginning. From that moment on, you are part of a community that treats all of its members - faculty and students alike - as professionals, and that holds each individual to the highest moral and ethical standards.
 

The year 2005 marked the 100th year of Creighton's pharmacy program. In 1976, Creighton began offering the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. In 2001, we moved to the forefront when we became the first in the nation to offer an entry-level, distance pathway Pharm.D. degree.

Creighton pharmacy graduates must possess knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to provide patient-centered care. Creighton pharmacy graduates must demonstrate competence in Jesuit values; professionalism, citizenship, and leadership; communication; patient assessment; medication therapy management; dispensing medications; drug information; public health; and health systems. Creighton pharmacy graduates possess integrity, and the confidence and capacity to work collaboratively with and for others, and will be proactive and progress leaders in the profession of pharmacy.

How do we prepare our graduates for the profession? By surrounding our health science students with classmates and friends who share a passion for helping people. Fully one-third of Creighton's 6,700 students are pursuing degrees in the health professions. With pharmacy faculty - nearly 60 strong - who continually advance their profession and are educational leaders. By providing a home for the sciences. The $56 million Hixson-Lied Science Building and Integrated Science Complex renovation completed in 2003 underscores Creighton's dedication to educating tomorrow's scientists and health care professionals. With an academic medical center that is one of the world's leading medical communities and home to Nebraska's busiest trauma center.

Our standards are high. But so are yours. If pharmacy isn't just a career choice for you - if it's a calling - then maybe you belong here. Our graduates are changing the world.

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."

Tom Lenz, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of the distance pathway, wrote a 416-page textbook entitled "lifestyle Modifications in Pharmacotherapy" published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.