Pharmacy PharmD software program intends to use ‘modified go-fail’ grading process
UB’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is looking for to vary the way in which its PharmD college students get graded.
Incoming initial-yr faculty college students in UB’s PharmD diploma plan will sensible expertise an alternate “modified go-fail” grading system that may permit them to “expertise a additional thorough and built-in resolution to competency pushed outcomes,” the school introduced in an e-mail previous week.
The very first-calendar 12 months (P1) course in 2022-23 — with an anticipated commencement date of 2026 — can be the primary class to data this grading program. Undergraduate coursework “is not going to be included” within the new grading program, in keeping with the e-mail.
SPPS will inform the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Coaching — its accrediting physique — when the varsity’s faculty have finalized an implementation program.
The PharmD diploma methodology — a graduate-level physician of pharmacy methodology — is a 4-12 months skilled diploma utility that enables pupils to operate as a pharmacist on commencement.
UB has the state’s prime-rated and the nation’s 14th-rated pharmacy methodology, in accordance to U.S. Info and Surroundings Report.
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