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Curriculum mapping of accredited pharmacy programs in the United States

No current guidance exists to inform the content area credit hours for doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) programs in the United States (US). Public websites were accessed for all Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited PharmD programs in the US to record the credit hours devoted to...

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Published in:Currents in pharmacy teaching and learning 2023-07, Vol.15 (7), p.661-665
Main Authors: Talasaz, Azita H., Donohoe, Krista L., Van Tassell, Benjamin, Truong, Albert, Shaunak, Allison, Wayne, April, Brenner, Autumn, Cherian, Benjamin, Long, Bradley, Clemons, Brianna, Cason, Caitlyn, Hoang, Catherine Chi, Tran, Christine, Dent, David, Quinn, Erin, Allegra, Anthony Garrett, Price, Graham, Sharp, Haley, Nguyen, Huyen, Gomez, Jason, Hodge, Jennifer, Lai, Jessica, Everett, Jordan, Hunt, Joseph, Zhang, Josh, Zhang, Joshua, Hsu, Jun, Bowles, Katherine, Rowe, Kayla, Loch, Kaylin, Han, Khiem, Reid, Kodi, So, Lisa, Noble, Madison, Puryear, Madison, Dance, Makeisha, Bland, Megan, LaPorte, Michael, Lowe, Nia, DiStefano, Nicholas, Crawford, Priscila, Spence, Rowan, Fleku, Sandra, Henderson, Sarah, Viramgama, Saumya, Lee, Sera, Yang, Sooin, Vickhouse, Stanley, Saunders, Sterling, Roussel, Sydney, Cuffee, Tayana, Huynh, Tiffany, Olajide, Tolulope, Yousufzai, Yanis
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Summary:No current guidance exists to inform the content area credit hours for doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) programs in the United States (US). Public websites were accessed for all Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited PharmD programs in the US to record the credit hours devoted to drug therapy, clinical skills, experiential learning, scholarship, social and administrative sciences, physiology/pathophysiology, pharmacogenomics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in the didactic curricula. Due to the high prevalence of programs that integrate drug therapy, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry into a single course, we subdivided programs based upon whether drug therapy courses were “integrated” or “non-integrated.” A regression analyses was conducted to explore the relationship between each content area and North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) pass rates and residency match rates. Data were available for 140 accredited PharmD programs. Drug therapy had the highest credit hours in programs with both integrated and non-integrated drug therapy courses. Programs with integrated drug therapy courses had significantly more credit hours in experiential and scholarship and fewer credit hours in stand-alone courses for pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology. Credit hours in content areas did not predict NAPLEX pass rate nor residency match success rate. This is the first comprehensive description of all ACPE accredited pharmacy schools with credit hours broken down by content areas. While content areas did not directly predict success criteria, these results may still be useful to describe curricular norms or inform the design of future pharmacy curricula.
ISSN:1877-1297
1877-1300
DOI:10.1016/j.cptl.2023.06.017