Please see the following message from Dr. Kevin Sneed, Dean, USF College of Pharmacy:
I have great news to share with all of you! The
USF College of Pharmacy (COP) family is proud to announce that it was awarded
candidate accreditation status by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
Education (ACPE) Board of Directors in June 2012. The Candidate
accreditation status denotes a developmental program that is expected to mature
in accord with stated plans within a defined time period. ACPE states
that graduates of a program with Candidate accreditation status have the same
rights and privileges of those graduates from a fully accredited program.
This marks a great step in the development of our pharmacy program!
We hope you can share in the enthusiasm that the
University of South Florida has for our program. We are building a
progressive and transformative program that will meet the needs of a quickly
evolving healthcare landscape. Our faculty and staff are striving to
develop a program that will not only meet but exceed the highest standards and
expectations of ACPE. We are grateful to be a part of a collaborative
community of pharmacy practitioners here in Florida, and we are very thankful
to everyone that contributed to this important endeavor. This action by ACPE is
validation of the important work we all strive to do in accomplishing the College's
mission: to develop outstanding pharmacist
clinicians that provide educational, preventive, and therapeutic pharmaceutical
care services to patients, communities, and health care providers with
foundational principles based upon innovation, leadership, achieving
interprofessional collaboration, application of clinical evidence, and
life-long learning values.
The USF COP is the only state-funded, metropolitan,
comprehensive college of pharmacy in the State of Florida. The College is part
of USF Health, which includes the colleges of medicine, public health, nursing
and schools of physical therapy and biomedical sciences. Our students will be
trained in an interprofessional environment utilizing state of the art clinical
resources such as the Center for Medical Learning Simulation (CAMLS). The
college, which enrolled its inaugural class in August 2011, received over 500
applicants for its second class. The College is encouraged by the quality
of applications received. Applications for the third class are already arriving
and the number and quality of applicants is only expected to increase now that
the College has candidate accreditation status.
Students can
contact the Office of Admissions by email at pharmdadmissions@health.usf.edu
and/or by phone at 813-974-5699. Mrs. Jackie Grosser, the Admissions Advisor,
is available to assist applicants through the application process. The
website (www.pharmacy.health.usf.edu)
is a useful resource which now includes prerequisite guides by school as well as a general evaluation guide.