Pharmacists in Public Health

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Offered as a Hybrid-Online Course This is a hybrid course, combining online learning modules and in -class learning experiences. This elective course introduces, develops, and integrates the skills and knowledge needed for student pharmacists who choose to explore the realm of public health through applying their unique pharmacy backgrounds and interests. Throughout the course, the learning modules are designed to illustrate how pharmacy would fit into the greater scheme of health care from a public health perspective. This will demonstrate how pharmacists can contribute to inter -professional efforts on enhancing the quality of healthcare services delivered to integrate clinical practice and population health in pharmacists' work, and to identify public health efforts of which pharmacists are already involved. A large portion of this course is devoted to program planning, implementation, execution, and evaluation: to prepare student pharmacists in their future leadership roles on the…