2018 NSU Fact Book

60 The College of Pharmacy facilities are headquartered at the Health Professions Division on the Fort Lauderdale/ Davie Campus and in NSU’s regional campuses in Palm Beach and Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experience sites are located throughout Florida, in Puerto Rico, and in several other U.S. states. A pharmaceutical care center is adjacent to the clinic on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. Research sponsored by the National Institute of Health provides opportunities for students to participate in cardiovascular, cancer, and central nervous system research. The Healing and Medicinal Garden, a project spearheaded by the College of Pharmacy and some of Florida’s leading horticulturists and landscape architects, serves as a repository of living medicinal plants and gives students first-hand knowledge of the plants’ properties and roles. Our faculty members and preceptors are recognized as experts in their field and are dedicated to providing quality professional and graduate education that focuses on academic excellence. Students have numerous opportunities to develop leadership skills, participate in community health-related activities, and engage in research and scholarship. The NSU pharmacies, students, and faculty members participate in interprofessional outreach activities that provide educational screening services and immunization clinics; pharmacy-based research services; and education to accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, and managed services organizations, as well as continuing education programs for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Students are active in more than 20 graduate and professional student organizations and actively engage in advocacy for the profession. The College of Pharmacy provides opportunities for travel study and global medical outreach for interested students. Eligible Pharm.D. students can complete a concurrent degree, getting either a Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics, or Master of Public Health with the Pharm.D. degree. These degrees are offered in conjunction with the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, respectively. Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD) The Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine received Preliminary Accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) on October 10, 2017, to become the eighth Doctor of Medicine-awarding medical school in Florida, and 1 of only 149 in the United States. NSU MD will matriculate its first class of 50 M.D. candidates in fall 2018. The college’s mission is to advance human health through innovation in medical education, research, patient care, and community engagement. Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) East Florida, and its hospital network is the preferred academic medical partner of the new college, providing student training experiences in clinically relevant settings. HCA soon will break ground on what will become a 200-bed teaching and research hospital on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/ Davie Campus. It will be within walking distance of the university’s educational and research facilities, including NSU’s $100-million, 215,000-square-foot Center for Collaborative Research. The college’s educational program will be taught in conjunction with the other seven life sciences colleges in an interdisciplinary fashion within NSU’s Health Professions Division, using existing renovated space to accommodate the new M.D. student class and the college’s active-learning curriculum. To meet demands in all of its life sciences academic programs, as well as the M.D. program, NSU is planning to build a more-than- 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art interdisciplinary, medical-education building to complement its current comprehensive health professions facilities and health care centers. NSU MD offers students a rare and exciting opportunity to be a part of a new paradigm of teaching the art and practice of medicine. Developed by a team of more than 100 medical educators, physicians, and researchers, the college’s innovative curriculum is designed to train and develop master adaptive learners and physician leaders who will transform health care. The collaborative, inquiry case, and problem-based curriculum also integrates topical threads on ethics and humanities, genomics, interprofessional collaboration,