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A curriculum designed with students in mind
The curriculum is designed with students in mind, offering a variety of teaching methods and opportunities for students to tailor their pharmacy education through an increased number of elective opportunities. Students may also earn digital badges to be displayed to showcase individualized training, certifications, and credentials to potential employers. Our curriculum equips students with the knowledge, skills, and professional attributes needed to practice in any healthcare setting and address the needs of any patient.
Six curricular threads define our program:
integrated pharmacotherapy modules, community engagement, skills lab, pathways, experiential education
and
interprofessional education
. All classes, case studies, discussion and laboratory sessions are intentionally designed by faculty to ensure collaboration, evidence-based teaching and assessment strategies, and individualized student advising and support. Notes are provided before classes and utilize strategies and techniques that support optimal learning for the material presented.
Patient care is practiced in each year of the program. Clinical rotations in community pharmacy, health systems, ambulatory clinics and acute care facilities are all integral, required experiences within the curriculum. Additionally, students are allowed to elect special rotations to build special clinical or management skills.
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Experiential learning
Interprofessional Education
Co-Curriculum
The Office of Experiential Education handles the rotations for the School of Pharmacy students.
Wingate University School of Pharmacy students are immersed in hands-on learning experiences with our clinical partners beginning in their first year and throughout their course of study.
If you have questions about the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) or the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience(APPE), please contact
Christy Inge
in the Office of Experiential Education.
The Wingate University School of Pharmacy's IPE thread provides a flexible educational series composed of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities which allows students to learn about, from, and with other health professions students to prepare pharmacy students for interprofessional practice.
The IPE thread offers a mixture of events in live and virtual formats, taking advantage of partnerships between the School of Pharmacy, other health science programs at Wingate University, and external stakeholders. All IPE events will focus on various levels of four main interprofessional core competencies: roles/responsibilities, values/ethics, communication, and teamwork. Students will participate in multiple IPE events throughout their didactic years to achieve the IPE thread objectives. Students will be able to further practice their interprofessional collaboration skills throughout their experiential rotations by working with various healthcare team members in different rotation settings to provide patient care.
Interprofessional Education Objectives:
Identify the importance of interprofessional practice.
Discuss the roles/responsibilities of a pharmacist with other healthcare professions.
Recognize the roles/responsibilities of various other professions in providing patient care.
Demonstrate appropriate communication and professional behaviors when working with a healthcare team.
Collaborate effectively with other members of the healthcare team.
Purpose
The Wingate University School of Pharmacy’s program entails a complete commitment to student learning – learning not only within the required course work, but extended alongside and outside of the curriculum. This co-curricular approach, the Wingate-Plus Program, features special programming designed to address the following objectives:
To foster student personal development.
To develop students professionally to function as a highly effective practitioner.
To enhance the students’ role in community engagement and service.
To expose students to authentic experiences that advance cultural sensitivity.
The co-curricular programming is essential to strengthen the development of the whole student with the skills necessary to succeed as a pharmacist.  Co-curricular programming includes a variety of required and optional opportunities.  Students have some flexibility in programming selections while also being required to reach outside of their own personal comfort zones.  The purpose of such an approach is to encourage a growth mindset and continual lifelong learning in all WUSOP students.  Fulfilling all requirements of the co-curriculum prior to the next academic year is required for progression. Failing to complete co-curricular requirements by the end of each academic year will result in referral to the Professional Conduct Review Board.
Overview
Wingate-Plus is an outcome-based plan aligned with the WUSOP program level outcomes (PLOs) and the CAPE affective domains of learning.  This approach allows for longitudinal tracking of outcomes both programmatically and at the individual student level. The plan is organized into four main categories: personal development, professionalism, community engagement and service, and cultural sensitivity.
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Integrated Pharmacotherapy Modules (IGP) - Following a foundational first-semester course, this thread includes a series of integrated courses, organized by body systems, which describe the physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacotherapy for the treatment of common medical disorders. This series of courses provides future pharmacists with a well-rounded knowledge of pharmaceutical and clinical sciences for application in pharmacy practice.
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Social and Administrative Sciences (SAS) - This thread develops engaged community members who solve patient, population, profession, and health care problems utilizing evidence and innovation, while maintaining necessary legal and ethical considerations. As life-long learners,the goal is to utilize and continually evolve cultural and structural competency to communicate and collaborate effectively as members of inter- and intraprofessional teams.
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Skills Lab - This thread complements courses taught in the classroom and involves a combination of lab activities and case discussions to augment student learning. The goal of this thread is application of foundational, clinical, and affective domain knowledge and skills in preparation for successful pharmacy practice.
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Pathways - This thread provides a flexible platform which allows for exploration of and additional development in a variety of practice areas to increase opportunities for employment in unique areas of pharmacy practice. This thread offers a mixture of programs and partnerships in live and virtual formats, taking advantage of partnerships between the school and the university and external stakeholders.
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Experiential Education - This thread prepares practice-ready pharmacists who competently apply skills and knowledge acquired in curricular and co-curricular experiences. This thread begins with introductory experiences in community and hospital pharmacy in the first and second years, faculty-led third year rotation experiences in ambulatory care and inpatient medicine, and culminates in a year of full-time rotation experiences in a variety of practice settings.
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Interprofessional Education - This thread builds upon and reinforces concepts taught throughout the SAS and Skills Lab threads through intentionally designed courses where students learn about, with, and from students in other health professions programs (e.g., Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant, Nursing, Medicine).
School of Pharmacy
(704) 233-8331
pharmacy@wingate.edu