UIC College of Pharmacy

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University of Illinois Chicago Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy
TypePublic
Established1859
Endowment $12 million
Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda
President Timothy Killeen
Provost Karen Colley
Dean Glen Schumock, PharmD, PhD, MBA
Academic staff
200 (faculty)
Students735 professional
144 graduate (MS & PhD)
29 residents and fellows
Location
Chicago
,
Illinois
,
United States of America
CampusChicago and Rockford
Website https://pharmacy.uic.edu/

UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois Chicago is one of the oldest pharmacy schools in the US and oldest unit of the University of Illinois system.

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History

Established in 1859 [1] , the UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy stands as the oldest academic unit of the University of Illinois.

The Chicago College of Pharmacy was founded on September 12, 1859 and became part of the University of Illinois in the later part of the century. Chicago College of Pharmacy U of I.jpg
The Chicago College of Pharmacy was founded on September 12, 1859 and became part of the University of Illinois in the later part of the century.

At the sixth annual meeting of the American Pharmacists Association, four Chicago druggists were elected to membership in the society. Upon returning to Chicago, two of those men, Edwin Gale and James D. Paine began a movement for a formal school of pharmacy. Along with S.S. Bliss, J.H. Read, E.H. Sargent and F. Scammon, all prominent druggists, collaborated to form an organization that would become the College's foundation. Incidentally, the group also served as the first organized society of druggists in the state.

Shortly thereafter, a formal movement towards establishing a school of pharmacy was begun, and the Chicago College of Pharmacy was born. On September 12, 1859, the charter signed by the original founders of the institution was notarized, officially establishing Illinois' first school of pharmacy and the sixth school of pharmacy in the nation. Scammon was elected chairman and Sargent was appointed to the College's board of trustees. Its first complete course was delivered in the winter of 1859, and 1861 marked its first graduating class of two students.

On Sunday, October 8, 1871, at 9:40pm., a fire alarm was sounded in a Chicago pharmacy, the alert of the Great Chicago Fire. Lasting two days, the fire's wrath ravaged 34 city blocks and destroyed nearly 20,000 buildings, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy. Corresponding College Secretary and alumnus Albert Ebert began rallying support from colleagues around the world to help rebuild the College and restock its bookshelves and laboratories. Its reopening heralded a class of 37 students in the fall semester of 1872.

The years that followed were crucial for both the College and the pharmacy profession. Concerns surrounding the safety and ethics of pharmacy practice emerged. Nationwide efforts sprang forth to develop laws regulating the profession. By 1880, the College had been instrumental in forming the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the Illinois Pharmacists Association). A year later, the Pharmacy Law of 1881 was passed, mandating education requirements for the practice of pharmacy in Illinois and assigning supervision of the professional to state agencies. Candidates were required to pass an examination given by the State Board of Health. The law also required pharmacists to pay a $2 annual licensing fee.

In 1895, the state legislature amended the original charter for the University of Illinois, allowing the location of professional departments of law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy outside of Champaign County. On December 10, 1895, the proposal to acquire the Chicago College of Pharmacy came before the university's board of trustees. On May 1, 1896, the College formally united with the University of Illinois, creating the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy. [1]

Reputation

UIC College of Pharmacy at 833 South Wood Street in Chicago, Illinois, photographed in 2010 UICCollegeOfPharmacyWoodStreet.jpg
UIC College of Pharmacy at 833 South Wood Street in Chicago, Illinois, photographed in 2010

The UIC College of Pharmacy is a unit of the University of Illinois. U.S. News & World Report ranks UIC as the seventh best [2] among colleges of pharmacy in the United States.

As of FY2023, the Retzky College of Pharmacy ranked in the top ten recipients of all federal funding for research, e.g., National Institutes of Health, of 122 U.S. colleges of pharmacy. [3] College of Pharmacy-sponsored research programs reached $30 million in fiscal year 2010 (funding doubled in 5 years).

Admissions

Although not required, nearly 70 percent of applicants to the PharmD program hold a bachelor's degree prior to admission. To earn the PharmD, students complete a minimum of six years of study: The first two years of prepharmacy coursework can be accomplished at any accredited college or university; the final four years of professional education are completed at the UIC College of Pharmacy. High school students may seek admission to the College of Pharmacy through UIC's Guaranteed Professional Program Admissions initiative; these students are required to complete their prepharmacy coursework at UIC before entry into the College of Pharmacy.

Each graduate (MS/PhD) program has its own admissions requirements and handles its own admissions process. Applicants must apply for admission to a specific program. Many graduate programs only admit candidates in the fall semester of each year.

The college offers a PharmD/PhD program, in which the professional doctor of pharmacy degree can be earned simultaneously with any of the PhDs offered. Through judicious selection and timing of courses, both degrees can be completed in less overall time than would be required to complete the programs separately. Some graduate programs allow applications to the master of science degree, usually from students who intend on continuing to a PhD afterwards. The Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences does not admit students to the MS.[ citation needed ]

Research

In the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) fiscal year 2016, the college's total reportable research funding was $18.5 million. This places the college in 5th place nationwide for overall research dollars. For the following fiscal year, the college reported $21.15M in awards to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.[ citation needed ]

Departments

More than 280 research and clinical faculty conduct research and provide training to more than 160 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, as well as 700 professional students. Departments in the College of Pharmacy are organized around four major areas of the pharmaceutical sciences:

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Centers and Institutes

In addition to its major departmental divisions, the college is home to several specialized research centers and institutes: [5]

Urban Pipeline Program

Through its investigation of the issue of low representation of underrepresented minority students in pharmacy school, the College concluded that this disparity was due to a lack of exposure among minority elementary and high schoolers to the profession. [6] To address these issues, the College and the Chicago Public Schools Department of College and Career Preparation partnered with industry leaders to offer a comprehensive pharmacy program for high schoolers with the goal of cultivating the next generation of URM pharmacists. [7]

The Urban Pipeline Program is an eight-week, comprehensive, academic, experiential, mentoring and professional- and social-development summer enrichment program. [8] Guiding the program is the "Theoretical and Conceptual Framework Model for Success" [6] that was developed by drawing from the literature on higher education student success and further informed by the Educational Policy Institute's Pathways to College Network Framework.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Our History | Retzky College of Pharmacy - Chicago | Rockford | University of Illinois Chicago" . Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  2. ↑ , U.S. News & World Report, 2020.
  3. ↑ "American Association of College of Pharmacy" Archived 2010-11-04 at the Wayback Machine , American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Departments | College of Pharmacy - Chicago | Rockford | University of Illinois Chicago".
  5. ↑ "Research Centers and Groups | College of Pharmacy - Chicago | Rockford | University of Illinois Chicago".
  6. 1 2 Clara Awe and Jerry Bauman, "Theoretical and Conceptual Framework Model for Success," PubMed Central, 2010
  7. ↑ " UIC College of Pharmacy Urban Pipeline Program Goals and Objectives", University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011.
  8. ↑ " UIC College of Pharmacy Urban Pipeline Program", University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011.
  9. ↑ 'Illinois Blue Book 1981-1982,' Biographical Sketch of Arthur A. Telcser, pg. 93

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