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  • University of Colorado Denver Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Pharmacy School
  • Aurora, CO
Individual Feedback 4 2 Responses
The Basics

Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

Response Avg # Responders
6.00 2

0 = Terrible, 10 = World Class

What do you like most?

"Location. For hospital aspiring pharmacists the location is to die for. An academic medical campus with bright physician leaders. UCH, VA, Children's hospital are all fantastic institutions to provide a strong basis of learning." | Report Response

"Challenging teaching environment that provides skills needed to maintain competency in pharmacotx and encourages students to excel. Reputable faculty with strong clinical backgrounds that maintain their clinical duties while teaching and seem to enjoy teaching." | Report Response

What do you like least?

"Emphasis on hospital practice is too high. Niche and industry exposure very little. Preparation for these nontraditional fields is minimal at this time." | Report Response

"It can be competitive. Stress is another big factor due to high expectations from faculty but it's a double edged in my opinion. The motivation that stems from this can easily turn to panic/fear of failing give the right set of circumstances." | Report Response

The Details

Does the student body seem cooperative or competitive?

Response Avg # Responders
2.50 2

0 = Competitive, 10 = Cooperative

Does the environment seem supportive for underrepresented minorities?

Response Avg # Responders
4.00 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual students?

Response Avg # Responders
4.00 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for married students?

Response Avg # Responders
4.00 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for students with disabilities?

Response Avg # Responders
4.00 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for older/non-traditional students?

Response Avg # Responders
4.50 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Do you/did you feel well prepared for your board exams?

Response Avg # Responders
2.00 1

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

How approachable are faculty members?

Response Avg # Responders
4.50 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?

"Pharmacy school is modern and world class but you're never in it. Education buildings were built recently and yet seem to be falling apart. The chairs are old and breaking. Study rooms are not plentiful and the ventilation was poor. Library is insanely good. Building 500 (Old Fitz) is under constant renovation but an awesome area. Outdoors space shockingly well maintained, can play most sports safely." | Report Response

How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?

"~1/4 do residency, 1/2 do community, 1/5 go straight into hospital without residency, 1/20 go to industry by fellowship. Decently prepared for traditional work." | Report Response

"Very well based on my experience and my observations of fellow alumni who graduated on different years (wide range- a few years out to a few decades)." | Report Response

What are rotations like?

"Virtually no industry electives, look at the colorado job market, pharma exists as mainly manufacturing. 2 rural rotations (ski towns, so very nice). bread and butter community and inpatient hospital rotations are main focus. rotations are quite long, roughly 6 weeks. Sometimes you can do a bench research APPE as an elective, highly recommended, the researchers on campus are world class in my opinion (IVY league trained PIs). Rotation preceptor quality varies highly. My experience was great but others not so much." | Report Response

"4" | Report Response

How do students from this program do in the Match?

"Apparently if 100 people applied to the Match, ~>75% got placed, and most with their top 3 choices. Not too shabby." | Report Response

Any other information you want to share?

"Experience - ok. Quite expensive tuition. The pharmacotherapy courses (the courses where you learn what drugs are used to treat X diseases) were just ok. A lot of it was screen shots of guidelines or poorly made slides. Lecturers read off 200 slides for 2+ hours a day and expected you to just memorize it all. Going from a R01 traditional flagship university to this pharmacy school was a huge downgrade in quality of education in my opinion. The best lecturers were the PhDs, focusing on evidence based medicine, basic science mechanisms and pathology, and connecting the pharmacology with the pathology was absolutely fantastic. PharmDs should not teach, their clinical experience was too anecdotal at times, often they had no answer to questions asked by students." | Report Response

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