Graduates of the Doctor of Pharmacy program will perform functions consistent with the elements described in the categories for patient care functions and education of health professionals and the public published in the Standards of Practice established by the American Pharmaceutical Association/American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Pharmacists who complete this program will meet the same terminal performance objectives as students who complete the College's 'traditional' Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Graduates will be able to provide a system of drug use evaluation resulting in comprehensive patient services. Doctor of Pharmacy degree graduates will enhance their ability to successfully adapt to the changing health care delivery system.

PHARM.D. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

University of Florida's WPPD program is designed with these goals in mind:

• Educate pharmacists as flexible, innovative leaders in the pharmaceutical care and medication therapy of patients
• Ensure students become clinicians who can work collaboratively while thinking independently
• Increase the student's level of pharmacotherapeutics knowledge and upgrade their skills and credentials to the Pharm.D. level
• Instill in students a commitment to the lifelong learning necessary for pharmacists to remain experts in the safe and effective use and distribution of medications to patients
• Identify the challenges confronting the field of pharmacy today and in the future and determine effective means of response to these challenges and changes