About Us
Welcome to the Jefferson College of Pharmacy (JCP), an integral part of one of the nation’s premier academic healthcare centers.
Founded in 2008, we have built an innovative Doctor of Pharmacy program that effectively prepares our graduates for interesting and challenging pharmacy practice roles across the health care continuum. Underpinning our curriculum is an accomplished and diverse team of healthcare leaders, teachers, researchers, and preceptors (practitioners) who make up our faculty. Collectively, this group brings a broad range of experiences and perspectives to our students, and they are recognized for their leadership in national and international pharmacy and healthcare membership organizations as well as their research in pharmaceutics, pharmacology, health outcomes, the clinical sciences and related fields.
Our classroom, laboratory and pharmacy-practice experiences at the Jefferson College of Pharmacy are complemented by a wide range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities designed to enable our student pharmacists to become competent and confident practitioners who apply their knowledge and skills to care for individual patients as well as improve the overall health of our community. With a strong emphasis on leadership skills and social responsibility, JCP graduates are prepared to make an impact!
Interprofessional Education
Since matriculating its first class in the Fall of 2008, the Jefferson College of Pharmacy (JCP) has embraced inter-professional education (IPE) and has been an active collaborator with the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE). Team-based collaborative care is the standard of practice throughout Jefferson Health.
Beginning their first semester on campus, JCP student pharmacists participate in required IPE activities. These activities include students from many other Jefferson programs, including couple and family therapy, medical laboratory sciences, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant. In addition to formal IPE activities, students may also participate in numerous co-curricular IPE activities. In addition to Jefferson Health, JCIPE has affiliations with a broad range of clinical practice sites where team-based collaborative care is the standard of practice. JCP student pharmacists have the opportunity to observe and practice team-based collaborative care at increasing levels of engagement as they proceed through the four-year Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum.
As a result of its efforts in IPE, JCP faculty have been invited to numerous national meetings to share information learned and to showcase IPE activities. Numerous JCP student pharmacists have also had the opportunity to present or publish reports of their IPE experiences. Many prospective student pharmacists have identified Jefferson’s IPE programming as a top reason for selecting Jefferson College of Pharmacy. In addition, many incoming students across professions have identified the ability to work with inter-professional healthcare teams among their top ten reasons for attending Jefferson.