Program Objectives

In this program, you will:

1. The program aims to graduate competent and confident professionals who are fully prepared to enter pharmacy practice.
2. Graduates will be equipped to provide high-quality, safe, and patient-centered care across diverse healthcare settings.
3. The curriculum prepares students to excel within Alberta’s evolving healthcare landscape as well as Canada’s broader healthcare system.

Careers

• community pharmacy and consultant pharmacists
• hospitals and other institutional settings such as ambulatory clinics/primary care networks
• drug utilization review/drug use evaluation
• pharmaceutical industry-related positions in research, medical information, and sales
• academic pharmacy
• Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces
• other fields in pharmacy-medical research and development and positions with insurance companies and in government

Learning Outcomes

You will leave this program with the ability to:

1. Meet the health needs of patients by taking responsibility for medication management of common conditions and diseases
2. Apply their expertise in knowledge of medications (including access to medications) and disease management when providing patient care
3. Work effectively in independent, intraprofessional, collaborative and interprofessional team-based health care delivery models
4. Demonstrate effective and culturally safe communication with families, communities, populations and health team members
5. Advocate for accessibility, community and belonging when providing care, when working with communities and in the Canadian healthcare system.
6. Advocate for and support patient decision-making regarding medication therapy
7. Manage daily pharmacy practice, compounding and distribution of medications
8. Anticipate change and continually adapt to meet challenges of professional practice 
9. Fulfill ethical, legal and professional obligations to the profession, the community and society at large