What an exciting time to be a pharmacist! To meet our society's health care needs, pharmacy practice is moving toward assuming responsibility for drug therapy outcomes. Pharmacists have enormous opportunities not only in the community pharmacy, but also in such areas as clinical hospital pharmacy practice, HMO ambulatory care pharmacies, home health care and the pharmaceutical industry as regional medical liaisons.

The demand for pharmacists has more than tripled for each of our graduates. The National Association of Chain Drugstores estimates that to meet the nationwide demand for pharmacists, all colleges of pharmacy (more than 80) would have to double their enrollments.

The educational programs and facilities of the College of Pharmacy are among the best in the country. Pharmacy faculty are young and enthusiastic and on the cutting edge of pharmacy practice. With over 500 clinical sites and over 700 preceptors, experiential education is as comprehensive and diverse and anyone could desire. These include sites ranging from the clinic pharmacy at Davie where faculty practice disease state management to the 1550-bed Jackson Memorial Hospital as well as medical centers in Tampa, Orlando, and West Palm Beach Upon the completion of four rigorous years, students are conferred the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree.

Perhaps the most important focus at NSU is upon our students. They work in groups to solve problems and complete assignments. Faculty have an open door policy and meet with students on a regular basis. The college is very technologically advanced, using communication by computer or by compressed video lecturing to the West Palm Beach and Puerto Rico sites. These are some of the reasons why our students have achieved such a successful pass rate on licensing examinations, well above the Florida and national pass rate.