- Unique characteristics of this school:
- Only two classrooms,
- Golf tournament with employers to raise money for scholarships
- Vaccinations for university
- Health fair and lots of service
- Field games day! Competition between the classes
- Legislative Day
- Rotation Experience
- Graduation -- family affair
- 30% students go into post-doc opportunities
- 24th Highest Ranked Pharmacy School
- Average GPA of 3.4
- Not a grade-forgiving school
- Always find out school's GPA calculation policy!
- PCAT score is less important than GPA
- Biology and Chemistry sub-section scores are most important
- Shadowing is recommended
- Number of hours isn't important, just important that you know pharmacy is the profession you want to go into
- Personal essay
- Want it in your own words, PharmCas has software that checks for plagiarism
- Interview -- extremely important
- 16 students invited at a time, interviewed for a day getting to know you and letting you know about the school
- Look for 7 domains of character
- Communication
- Leadership
- Problem Solving
- Professional
- Ethics
- Responsibility
- Analytical Skills
- Service Oriented
- Don't know your PCAT or GPA scores before
- Will let you know within 24 hours if you've been accepted or not
- Rolling Admissions
- Take-away message: APPLY EARLY!
- Remember PharmCas is Eastern Standard Time
- 2nd Week of School -- you are assigned a patient
- You interview them, find out disease states, find out drug therapy
- You will keep this patient for the remainder of the year
- The P2 on your team will be your mentor throughout the year
- Class size of only 15 -- 2 professors
- Pass/Fail -- intent is to learn how to talk to patients and how to solve problems on your own relating to pharmacy
- One 2-hour lab
- Teach on a disease-based concept
- Two years
- Third Year -- Class size goes from 125 to 8
- Focus on problem based learning, disease centered, you will be given a patient-centered case with multiple problems
- You will teach the class about your specific disease case
- Fourth Year -- Clinical rotations, 8 five-week rotations, one five-week off
- 6 are in an independent, chain, hospital, multiple clinical settings
- 2 electives: opportunities in Kenya, Arizona, cross-cultural, CDC in Atlanta, research
Check out pharmacy.auburn.edu for more information!
