PharmD Program Our Curriculum

We provide an iPad to each student upon their arrival, which they keep upon successful graduation from our program. The iPad enables off-loaded content for classes, paperless testing and note-taking, auto-push of notifications, and material and video capture. The iPad Initiative was started in 2016 to provide a common computing platform for our students.

IPPE- Longitudinal (formerly LEEP) is a component of experiential education that immerses students in pharmacy practice from day one. Instead of dedicated summer hours, a portion of required practice hours happens during the academic year, initiated by the student with a dedicated preceptor.

Our licensure exam pass rates are consistently higher than the national average, and currently, 12 UKCOP alumni serve as deans of other colleges of pharmacy.

Patient-Centered Care Experience (PaCE) Laboratory utilizes a near-peer learning model and pairs first, second, and third-year pharmacy students into concurrent weekly lab sessions with intermittent experiential education. This approach allows students to learn from each other in a team-based atmosphere that mirrors tiered practice settings.

Community Service Learning (CSL), an entrepreneurial component of PaCE, is the first of its kind. Under the supervision of a faculty mentor, students collaborate with a non-profit community partner for six semesters. They conduct a needs assessment, develop a health-based business plan, implement their plan, and then report back on outcomes.

Unique aspects of our curriculum also include classes on Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care, Clinical Reasoning, Scholarship, as well as four dual degree options.