| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy | |
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| Type | Public [1] |
| Location | Edwardsville, Illinois, United States |
| Website | www.siue.edu |
SIUE School of Pharmacy is an academic college of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville located in Edwardsville, Illinois, USA. It opened its doors in 2005 with its first class graduating in 2009. That same year the School of Pharmacy was granted full accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) [2].
The SIUE School of Pharmacy offers the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree, also known as the Pharm.D. To be admitted, students must complete at least two years of required pre-pharmacy curriculum. The professional program at SIUE is 4 years in length. It includes 3 years of study on the Edwardsville, Illinois campus and one full year of experiential education at a clinical site in the region [3].
The School of Pharmacy is home to the Express Scripts Drug Information & Wellness Center, named in recognition of the Express Scripts Foundation's multi-year support of the School. The Center, a unit of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, serves as a traditional drug information center and provides a wellness component for Central and Southern Illinois.
In fall 2009, the SIUE School of Pharmacy hosted the internationally attended Strategic Planning Summit for the Advancement of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacy. Coordinator Chris Herndon, an assistant professor in the School, organized the event with a Mayday Fund grant to educate and discuss the concepts of pain and palliative care and how those concepts pertains to today’s professional pharmacist. The summit was based on the National Pain and Palliative Care Summit held in 2003 at The Ohio State University. The recommendations were accepted in July 2010 by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM.)[4].
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