Mission, Planning and Assessment听
The purpose of the College of Pharmacy Mission, Planning and Assessment area is to
facilitate accomplishment of the mission of the College of Pharmacy through systematic
assessment and continuous improvement of the structure, process, and outcomes of teaching,
service and research.
Our assessment plan is based on the premise that the core of each individual is comprised
of 3 elements:听 his or her intellectual competence, personality, and connectivity.听
It is only through development of all three elements that a fully mature and functional
individual is realized.
Our program allows opportunity for development in all three elements, which enables
us to gauge student readiness to serve their patients (practice-ready) as a successful
member of the health-care team (team-ready) and engage as leaders in our profession;
thus, ensuring we are meeting our mission and vision.
Vision
We transform our professions through the development of tomorrow's leaders who will
pursue breakthrough research, advance pharmacy practice, and create education innovation.
Mission
Enhancing the health and environment of the communities we serve.
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Competence
The first element is competency, which is a combination of intellectual ability and
skills, which have traditionally been associated with success.听 A person's intellectual
quotient (IQ) is a measure of that individual's ability to learn, which doesn't change
over time.听 Research has shown that those with high IQ outperform those with average
IQ only 20% of the time, but those with average IQ outperform those with high IQ 70%
of the time.听 (EI 2.0)
Personality
The next element is an understanding of how personality and innate preferences are
critical to understanding how one is perceived by others.听 This self-awareness should
be accompanied by an ability to regulate how these preferences are expressed.
Connectivity
The last factor is connectivity, or how one relates to others.听 While self-awareness
has us look inward, but connectivity has us look outward at how we relate with others.
The overlap of these three elements represents the CORE of a successful individual.听
Successful individuals are not only competent, they must also understand themselves
and have mastery of their relationships with others.听
The strategic decisions and daily operations of the College's faculty and staff will
be reflective of the following values:
- Responsibility听- acting morally, ethically, and with integrity, as well as being accountable for
one's actions. Students, faculty, and staff have a duty to adhere to these standards.
We also recognize our duty to be thoughtful stewards of those resources entrusted
to us.
- Innovation听- the synthesis, embodiment, or combination of knowledge in original, relevant, valued
new products, processes, or services, especially as related to promoting optimal patient
and educational outcomes.
- Collaboration听- the development of educational, research and practice partnerships among students,
practitioners, educators, and other stakeholders.
- Quality - the pursuit of excellence, which is cultivated and assessed through a process of
continual quality improvement.
- Professionalism听- the demonstration of structural, attitudinal, and behavioral attributes of a profession
and its members. Certain professional attributes, including a service orientation;
caring; respect for others; accountability and responsibility for one's action; integrity;
honesty; ethically sound decision making; and a commitment to life-long learning are
fundamental to our functioning as learners, educators, researchers, scholars, and
practitioners of pharmacy.听
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