Touro University College of Pharmacy

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Touro UniversityCollege of Pharmacy
Cecilia Hui
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Location

• Touro University College of Pharmacy is located
  on Mare Island on the San Francisco Bay. Its
  about one hour by car and 40 minutes by ferry
  from San Francisco.

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Mission

• Touro College
• is an independent institution of higher and
  professional education under Jewish sponsorship,
  established to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish
  heritage and to serve the larger community in
  keeping with the Judaic commitment to social
  justice, intellectual pursuit, and service to
  humanity.
• Touro College of Pharmacy
• serves society through its programs in pharmacy
  education, through scholarship and through
  service. The College strives to prepare students
  to be competent, caring and ethical professionals
  dedicated to the provision of pharmaceutical care
  and members of the health care team.

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What makes Touro unique?

• Touro is the only pharmacy school in the US that
  offers a 22 doctor of pharmacy program that
  consists of a two year in-class setting and two
  years of rotations.
• The two years of clinical experience include
  thirteen six-week clerkships in different
  settings. Seven of the required clerkships
  include 2 rotations each in community pharmacy,
  internal medicine, and ambulatory care, and 1
  rotation in a hospital pharmacy. For the
  remaining 6 clerkships, you can choose from
  different settings, such as oncology, clinical,
  or retail.

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Accreditation Status

• The school offers a four-year Doctor of Pharmacy
  program that began in fall 2005. Since the school
  has been recently established, it has candidate
  accreditation status is still pending. Its full
  accreditation will not be considered until the
  first class graduates in 2009.

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Tuition/Application

• 28,000 in 2005-2006 Academic Year.
• 29,120 in 2006-2007 Academic Year
• PharmCas
• Deadline February 1, 2007
• 3 Letters of Rec.
• Supplemental by invitation only
• Interviews Interviews are typically held between
  mid-October and the end of April. Interviews are
  conducted in a panel style, group interview
  format. Up to five candidates will be interviewed
  together by two to three pharmacy faculty
  members.
• Prerequisites Gchem, Ochem, Math2A B, Physio,
  Anatomy

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Statistics

• For the 2007 Entering Class Expected GPA of
  accepted students 3.00 - 3.50 Minimum overall
  GPA considered - 2.50 Minimum prerequisite GPA
  considered - 2.50
• Average Cumulative GPA 2005 Entering Class
  3.11 2006 entering class 3.22 (All members of
  the Class of 2010 earned a Baccalaureate Degree
  or higher before the start of classes)

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Something interesting

• Touro University College of Pharmacy students
  recently won the 2008 California Pharmacists
  Association (CPhA) Quiz Bowl academic competition
  in Sacramento.
• All California Pharmacy Schools participated.
• Students, sitting in sections with their schools,
  each used a clicker to select one of four
  responses to a question projected on a screen.
  After each question was introduced, the students
  were given 10 seconds to confer.
• Quiz Bowl questions can cover all aspects of
  medication use pharmacology, therapeutic
  alternatives, clinical issues such as
  contraindications and drug interactions,
  medication- intensive medical conditions like
  HIV, pharmacy law, health policy relating to
  medication use and Medicare Part D.
• Grading was based on the percentage of students
  from each school who answered correctly.
• Second place went to Western University of Health
  Sciences and third to University of the Pacific.