Working Professional Doctor of Pharmacy
Offered By: University of Florida
Since 1994 the University of Florida's highly successful Working Professional Doctor of Pharmacy (WPPD) program has prepared pharmacists to become leaders in the emerging role of pharmacy in the patient care process.
While most working professional Pharm.D. programs just bridge the degree gap, the advanced content of the University of Florida program complements your practice experience for a higher level of competence and autonomy. With a focus on proactive disease state management, you will learn a consultative approach to identifying drug-related problems and systematically applying drug knowledge to resolve and prevent these problems.
Designed for your busy schedule, this program delivers all course materials directly to you. With unprecedented levels of support, you can be assured that you will complete this 3-year program on time and continue to take care of your work, family, and personal responsibilities. It will never be easier to further your education and your career! Earn the best Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from one of the best pharmacy schools.
The University of Florida's WPPD program is designed with these goals in mind:
- Educate pharmacists as flexible, innovative leaders in the pharmaceutical care and medication therapy of patients
- Ensure students become clinicians who can work collaboratively while thinking independently
- Increase the student's level of pharmacotherapeutics knowledge and upgrade their skills and credentials to the Pharm.D. level
- Instill in students a commitment to the lifelong learning necessary for pharmacists to remain experts in the safe and effective use and distribution of medications to patients
Identify the challenges confronting the field of pharmacy today and in the future and determine effective means of response to these challenges and changes.
