Our Curricular Innovation work has started with attention to how and how well we meet the new 2016 ACPE Accreditation Standards for Pharmacy Education.
While our Assessment Committee is proud to report that our current curriculum meets these new accreditation educational standards, we are committed to providing unparalleled education with a PharmD program that exceeds expectations and is one of the best in the world.
Today, our guidance team tasked the UWSOP Assessment Committee to conduct a gap analysis to look at how exactly our curriculum meets or exceeds the new standards and to highlight any “soft spots” for strengthening. We continued the discussion during this meeting by exploring the attributes a future pharmacist would need. Rapid changes in health care, technology, and society, along with our state’s progressive health care laws, mean that UWSOP is uniquely positioned to address these questions, and that now is the time for a new curriculum designed for the modern pharmacist. We also began discussing the outcomes, measures, and metrics that could inform the curricular innovation process and provide success indicators for a new program, including approaches for ongoing assessment and future adaptation.