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University of Colorado Denver Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Aurora, CO

Pharmacy Schools | Public Non-Profit

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What do you like most?

  • Location. For hospital aspiring pharmacists the location is to die for. An academic medical campus with bright physician leaders. UCH, VA, Children's hospital are all fantastic institutions to provide a strong basis of learning.
  • Challenging teaching environment that provides skills needed to maintain competency in pharmacotx and encourages students to excel. Reputable faculty with strong clinical backgrounds that maintain their clinical duties while teaching and seem to enjoy teaching.

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Do you/did you feel well prepared for your board exams?

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What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?

  • Pharmacy school is modern and world class but you're never in it. Education buildings were built recently and yet seem to be falling apart. The chairs are old and breaking. Study rooms are not plentiful and the ventilation was poor. Library is insanely good. Building 500 (Old Fitz) is under constant renovation but an awesome area. Outdoors space shockingly well maintained, can play most sports safely.

How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?

What are rotations like?

  • Virtually no industry electives, look at the colorado job market, pharma exists as mainly manufacturing. 2 rural rotations (ski towns, so very nice). bread and butter community and inpatient hospital rotations are main focus. rotations are quite long, roughly 6 weeks. Sometimes you can do a bench research APPE as an elective, highly recommended, the researchers on campus are world class in my opinion (IVY league trained PIs). Rotation preceptor quality varies highly. My experience was great but others not so much.
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How do students from this program do in the Match?

Any other information you want to share?

  • Experience - ok. Quite expensive tuition. The pharmacotherapy courses (the courses where you learn what drugs are used to treat X diseases) were just ok. A lot of it was screen shots of guidelines or poorly made slides. Lecturers read off 200 slides for 2+ hours a day and expected you to just memorize it all. Going from a R01 traditional flagship university to this pharmacy school was a huge downgrade in quality of education in my opinion. The best lecturers were the PhDs, focusing on evidence based medicine, basic science mechanisms and pathology, and connecting the pharmacology with the pathology was absolutely fantastic. PharmDs should not teach, their clinical experience was too anecdotal at times, often they had no answer to questions asked by students.