Pharmacy Practice Leadership, Management, and Innovation Credits: 3

Catalog description

Pharmacy Practice Leadership, Management, and Innovation is a required course for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree program. The goals of the course are to teach basic leadership and management principles and apply them to pharmacy practice in a variety of situations and settings. Leadership principles are related to broad personal and organizational missions and visions. Management principles are related to operational details of managing human resources, inventory, and finances. In order to achieve these goals, this course will review specific topics, including but not limited to, leadership and professional development, entrepreneurship, operations management, application of reimbursement mechanisms, pay-for-performance, and innovative pharmacist services. Pharmacists need to understand these principles and applications as a means of providing optimum care for patients, especially when pharmacists emerge as important contributors to the future of the U.S. health care system.