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The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is charged with the responsibility to conduct academic research of high repute as well as to educate scientists who will be prominent leaders in their respective fields. The Graduate School at the Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy (KUP) was established in 1986, and from the outset its aim was to develop pharmaceutical scientists who are broadly educated, well-trained in science, and able to originate deep insights in their field of study. Currently, approximately 30% of undergraduate alumni go on to the Graduate School. After the comprehensive reorganization of the graduate program was completed in 1998, a special category of executive-style students, primarily from hospital, pharmacy and industry, was approved and permitted to apply and be accepted into the graduate program. A key benefit of the reorganization and admission program is that it fostered an exchange of information and an increase in networking among the diverse community of University researchers and of traditional and non-traditional graduate students. These changes have noticeably energized research and collaborative work at KUP. |
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Another aim of our Graduate School is to further educate licensed pharmacists to enable them to more effectively apply their pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to their own practice. Thus, in 2001 a new major in Clinical Pharmacy was officially established whereby graduate students in Clinical Pharmacy learn advanced pharmacotherapy and patient drug monitoring through case studies. For the first 6 months, this curriculum is taught by a team of health care practitioners including a lecturer from the Loyola University Chicago, School of Medicine. Subsequently, students spend six to seven months in clinical rotations at selected hospitals in and around Tokyo. The next phase, strongly endorsed by previous students' input, gives them 4 to 10 weeks of advanced pharmacy practice experiential training in rotations at affiliated hospitals in the United States. All the training that these students receive in the Clinical Pharmacy major is intended to prepare them to be leaders in a range of practices that focus on direct patient care. |
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