The Pharmacotherapeutics and Pharmacy Practice Department at UCC SoPPS is critical in the PharmD curriculum run by the School. The Department has a dual role; one is to equip students with basic and clinical research skills needed to discover and develop therapeutic agents. The department employs in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo techniques to assay plant extracts, and natural products/ isolates from plants in several disease models. Finding new uses for existing drugs and toxicity monitoring has become one of the mainstay assays performed in the department.
The other role of the Department is to provide adequate learning experiences for the student pharmacist in direct patient care and provision of pharmaceutical care services. Through this Department, students gain knowledge on the rational use of drugs, evaluation of medications, disease state management, and what it requires to main strict professional standards. Mindful of the future of pharmacy practice, the Department employs critical thinking and problem-solving approaches coupled with hands-on laboratory skills activities across diverse pharmacy practice settings. We use simulated and standardized patient encounters to foster the development of key skills relevant to the changing demands of pharmacy practice.
Faculty in this Department have varied expertise in community, hospital, industrial, and regulatory areas of pharmacy practice. They are involved in research geared towards the clinical, economic, and policy-related applications of pharmaceutical care.
Vision
A School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences with global recognition.
Goal
The goal of the School is to facilitate the training of students to acquire clinical, industrial, and community-based experience in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.
Mission
To train innovative and unique pharmacists with the highest professional standards to deliver quality pharmaceutical care.
Core Values
The core values of the School are Excellence, Professionalism, Innovation and Service. Additionally, UCC SoPPS-trained Pharmacists possess the following attributes summarised as “P.H.A.R.M.A.C.I.S.T.”
P : Patient-centeredness
H : Honesty
A : Astuteness
R : Responsibility
M : Meticulousness
A : Accountability
C : Competence
I : Integrity
S : Scholarship
T : Teamwork