CALIFORNIA HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY 1/24/17 6-7pm

WHERE: Clovis, CA in Central Valley (2-3 hours from Davis)

Mission: teach, serve, transform pharmacy into *primary care* profession

Vision: access, delivery, and outcomes of primary care in central CA

  • Accreditation status
    Candidate Accreditation status granded with ACPE and WASC (provides students with the same rights and privileges as full accreditation, allowing them to take the pharmacy board exams

4-year program: 3 didactic, 1 experiential

  • team based learning
  • introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences

TBL: Team Based Learning

  • get your materials about 1 week in advance to study, and when you go into class you take an IRAT (individual readiness assessment), then take the same assessment in a group of 5-6 students that’s determined for each semester
  • *passive learners become active participants

Experiential Education

IPPE (Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience)

IPPE1= summer between P1 and P2 year; community setting, typically retail

-Intern License Application, CPR and Immunization Certification

IPPE2= summer between P2 and P3 year; hospital environment

IPPE3= during p3 year, clinical rotation with faculty member in their environment

APPE (Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience)

  • 7 APPE rotations that are 6 weeks long during P4 (8 blocks in the year, but students can take 1 block off)
  • various practice settings: ambulatory care, community, acute care, institutional (hospital), physician/prescriber led (healthcare “team” environment), 2 electives (can go too internationallocation also)

Tuition and Financial Aid

  • $45,000 annual tuition
  • student loans available
  • cost of living in the area is affordable
  • CHSU Scholarship Fund (up to $10,000 per year)

Admissions Eligibility

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Minimum 2.7 cumulative GPA
  • 48 pre-req credits (grade C or better, minimum GPA 2.7)

Admissions Process

  • PharmCAS: rolling admissions, closes 3/1/17)
  • Personal statement, 3 letters of recommendation, interview process
  • Interviews: 2 on 1. 2 faculty interview 1 student for about 20 minutes to get a feel of your interpersonal skills, your presentation of yourself, and your communication skills
  • 4 elements: decision making, time management, work ethics,
  • interviews very behavioral based, ie not what would you do, but what you have done (give us an example, tell us about a time when…)

Resources for Prospective Pharmacy Students

  • AACP.org
  • Virtual Pharmacy School Fair (every year in October)
  • Pharmacy Career Options (pamphlet)
  • Top 10 reasons (pamphlet)
  • Talk to pharmacists and CHSU Pharmacy students
  • Visitation day this Saturday from 10am to noon at CHSU campus

Dr. Patty Havard

  • UC Davis alum; CHSU Associate Dean for Student Development & Professionalization
  • CHSU Professor of Clinical Administrative Sciences
  • 16,000 pharmacy students graduate a year, but only about 3400 residency spots
  • faculty at CHSU: 2 groups, clinical and research
  • GPA does not correlate to success
  • 3.1 is GPA average on website is cumulative GPA
  • starting salary is $135,000 a year for recently graduated students
  • only 2 schools in CA of 13 require PCAT, Chapman and UCSF
  • in overall evaluation for admissions, a few bonus points for local students in Central Valley (also if you plan to stay and give back to the Central Valley community)
  • acceptance rate is 30%. Over 700 applicants, 400 applicants qualified, 179 accepted the interview, the school offered acceptance to 170, and 55 chose to attend the school