LEADERS Track focuses on diversifying the array of courses to  build leadership and business skills to excel in the real world.

Required Courses:

 PHRX 4061 Organizational Dynamics for Corporate & Non-Profit Leaders (2 credits)

Introduces pharmacy students to regional C-Suite healthcare executives. Showcases best-practice organizational and leadership dynamics found in corporate and boardroom settings, including meeting with healthcare executives to learn about their careers.

Discussions with C-Suite executives will illuminate behaviors, traits and skills needed to lead an organization. Roles and responsibilities of board of directors, organizational staff, and senior leadership will be explored. Through a simulated non-profit organization, students will apply corporate governance policies and parliamentary procedures to prepare them for leading meetings and organizations upon graduation.

 

 PHRX 4060 Leadership in Pharmacy (2 credits)

Provides an introduction to effective leadership through an exploration of leadership styles and concepts and their application to various opportunities and challenges in pharmacy.

 

Elective Courses:

 PHRX 3058 Future Pharmacy Leaders (1 credit)

A broad overview of leadership development, appreciation of personal strengths, and professional development. Run in collaboration with the University's Office of Leadership Programs, with the school's Phi Lambda Sigma members serving as mentors.

 

 PHRX 4057 Developing Pharmacy Leaders (1 credit)

Provides training and experience in leadership skills to include identifying personal strengths, envisioning change, team building and advocacy in the field of pharmacy.

 

 PHRX 3057 Discovering the Leader Within (1 credit)

Students will read a popular leadership book and participate in activities focused on its content. Discussion posts, study guides and participation in in-class discussions.

Applications to fundamental principles to pharmacy practice. Culminates with a discussion with the author or other leadership expert. This course can be repeated for credit because each year will focus on a new book.

 

 PHRX 4059 Follow the Money: Impact of Payment Reform and Health Policy on

 Pharmacy Practice (2 credits)

Introductory course on the impact of health care delivery and payment reform on new practice opportunities for pharmacists. Topics include patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations, community health teams, population health, medication therapy management, value-based insurance design, and new reimbursement models to support pharmacists in direct patient care roles. A holistic view of these topics is examined from the consumer/patient, health care professional, payor, and

health-system perspectives.

 

Management/Business Elective:

Students will complete a 3-credit management/business elective from a list approved by the LEADERS Track Faculty Team; students may petition to enroll in a course not on the approved list.

 

APPE Elective:

Students must complete at least one of the following management/leadership-focused APPE for 4 credits:

• Academia/Leadership
• Pharmacy Association
• Pharmacy Management
• Hospital Administration
• Industry

 

Leadership Project:

Students must complete individually or in a group a project demonstrating their leadership skills. As an alternative, students may complete PHRX 5199 Research APPE. Honors students may use their honors project to fulfill this requirement.

 

Service Project:

Students must participate individually or as a group in at least one service activity (i.e., school, campus, community) that demonstrates their leadership skills.

 

Leadership Interview:

Each student must identify a national leader within pharmacy and conduct an in-person or telephone interview with them.

 

Leadership Mentor:

Each student will have a mentor in a leadership position or with long-standing leadership experience that they communicate with throughout the program.

 

LEADERS Retreat:

All LEADERS students will participate in a leadership retreat each year

We invite interested pharmacy students to join us for the LEADERS Track Lunch & Learn every spring semester. Discover the exciting opportunities, activities, and curricular requirements of the LEADERS Track. You'll have the chance to hear from current LEADERS Track students about their experiences.

Please contact faculty coordinator, Dr. Marie Smith, with any questions.

Dr. Sean Jeffery

Dr. Christina Polomoff

Dr. Marie Smith

Dr. Kathryn Wheeler