{"id":7840,"date":"2021-02-17T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/?page_id=7840"},"modified":"2021-02-22T22:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:02:28","slug":"pharmacy-school-admissions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/pharmacy-school-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"PHARMACY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-654531587\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill \"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>            \n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n   <div id=\"text-box-298768873\" class=\"text-box banner-layer x50 md-x50 lg-x50 y50 md-y50 lg-y50 res-text\">\n                                <div class=\"text dark\">\n              \n              <div class=\"text-inner text-center\">\n                  \n\n<h1 class=\"uppercase\"><strong>pharmacy school admissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n              <\/div>\n           <\/div>\n                            \n<style>\n#text-box-298768873 {\n  width: 60%;\n}\n#text-box-298768873 .text {\n  font-size: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n    <\/div>\n \n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-654531587 {\n  padding-top: 500px;\n}\n#banner-654531587 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: 5608;\n}\n#banner-654531587 .overlay {\n  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.209);\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pharmacy School Admissions<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What college courses do I need before applying to pharmacy school?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Course prerequisites vary significantly by pharmacy school. Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pharmcas.org\/school-directory\/\">PharmCAS School Directory<\/a>\u00a0and the for school-specific requirements. A list of common college course prerequisites is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General Chemistry I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>Organic Chemistry I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>Biology I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>Anatomy and Physiology (or A&amp;P I &amp; II)<\/li>\n<li>Microbiology<\/li>\n<li>Physics<\/li>\n<li>Calculus<\/li>\n<li>English Composition<\/li>\n<li>Communication or Public Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Psychology or Sociology<\/li>\n<li>Statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the PCAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pharmacy College Admission Test (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcatweb.info\/\">PCAT<\/a>) is\u00a0a standardized exam administered by Pearson and is required by some pharmacy institutions. It measures general academic ability and scientific knowledge necessary for the PharmD curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The content areas measured by the PCAT include: Biological Processes, Chemical Processes, Critical Reading, and Quantitative Reasoning multiple-choice subtests are a few experimental items that are not counted toward your score.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharmacy Pathway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre Pharmacy Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2\u20134 YEARS:\u00a0<\/strong>Pre-pharmacy coursework can be completed at any accredited college or university. Some pharmacy schools offer early assurance pathways to pre-pharmacy students. The majority of pharmacy schools do not require students to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree before entering the professional Pharm.D. curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharmacy College or School (Pharm. D. Degree)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3\u20134 YEARS:\u00a0<\/strong>Most pharmacy colleges and school in the U.S. require 4 years of study in the professional Pharm.D. curriculum. Some pharmacy institutions offer accelerated programs that require the same amount of professional coursework to be completed within 3 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharmacist Licensure Exam and State Board Reuirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LICENSURE:<\/strong>All Pharm.D. graduates must successfully complete the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) and other licensure assessments required by a state board of pharmacy before they can legally practice as a pharmacist in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPTIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RESIDENCY:\u00a0<\/strong>1\u20132 years of postgraduate training focused on certain patient populations or disease states in a clinical setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FELLOWSHIP:\u00a0<\/strong>Individualized postgraduate training with a focus in academia, research, or industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER DEGREES:\u00a0<\/strong>Licensed pharmacists may choose to become board certified as a way to demonstrate pharmacy expertise in a specialty area of practice: Ambulatory Care, Cardiology, Compounded Sterile Preparations, Critical Care, Geriatric, Infectious Diseases, Nuclear, Nutrition Support Oncology, Pediatric, Pharmacotherapy, and Psychiatric.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7840\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemri.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}