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What Trail Will You Blaze with an MCW PharmD Degree?

By taking the first step toward your pharmacy education at the MCW Pharmacy School, you commit to becoming a key provider in improving care for patients with chronic diseases and patients needing acute care. You will partner with patients to ensure health and wellness across their lifespan, and increase accessibility in the community to health screenings, immunizations and other important health services. It is a monumental and meaningful task, and we are here to guide you every step of the way.

At MCW, we know that to be a pharmacist is to advocate for the health and wellbeing of every individual you encounter as a professional. Whether you want to focus your professional efforts on contributing to trends in precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, cancer, psychiatry, or focus on providing primary care services in your community, we surround you with everything you need to emerge from MCW fully prepared to meet the demands facing the next generation of pharmacists.

Through your educational experience, you will learn how to provide better quality healthcare as part of an interprofessional team. Additionally, you will discover how you can most effectively contribute to the quality of life for your patients and your community.

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Admissions

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Doctor of Pharmacy

Learn how we'll prepare you to fulfill the expanding role of the pharmacist and improve care for patients.

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Student Life

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Become the Pharmacist of the Future

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Learn

The MCW Pharmacy School is one of the few pharmacy schools in the country offering a three-year doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree, balancing more than a century of rich medical education traditions with cutting edge educational technologies and team-based learning models found in a 21st century pharmacy school curriculum. Our program offers small class sizes, significant one-on-one attention from high caliber faculty, and a supportive, approachable learning environment. Additionally, you will enjoy direct clinical exposure to many different medical specialties, including biomedical research, providing you with a wealth of options for your future career path.

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Innovate

There is an increasing demand for pharmacists who can provide expanded services. MCW is answering the call by providing an innovative model of pharmacy education that is dedicated to developing a pipeline of new, world-class pharmacists for Wisconsin, to ensure high quality healthcare continues for future generations in both urban and rural communities throughout the state. As an MCW PharmD graduate, you will have the knowledge and skills to practice at “the top of your license,” so you can fulfill all aspects of the expanding role of the pharmacist, including providing vaccines, strep tests and other patient care services.

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Engage

Engage

As an MCW student, you will gain hands-on experience  with our clinical partners at Froedtert Health, the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, as well as clinics partnered with MCW campuses in Green Bay and Central Wisconsin. You will participate in providing vital services such as vaccination and immunization clinics in community health centers, at public events and in high schools, which will offer an in-depth view of the unique health needs of each community and the care that is required for the population. Finally, as an MCW Pharmacy School graduate, you will be trained to achieve the Triple Aim: better care, better health, lower cost – which contributes to higher quality care overall and better outcomes for both patients and the community.

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Advocate

Your experience at MCW’s Pharmacy School will prepare you to become an advocate at the local, state and national level for providing greater access to primary and preventive care for patients at convenient locations in their community, advancing the role of the pharmacist in the patient care team, and evolving the healthcare delivery model to meet the needs of patients and the community.

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Information for Prospective Students

  • Academic Support and Enrichment

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  • Health and Wellness

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  • Student Inclusion

    Student Inclusion is committed to supporting diversity of all types in healthcare education as well as recruiting and supporting students and residents who are Under-Represented in Medicine (URM)

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  • Student Records

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Student Resources

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Academic Calendar
MCW Pharmacy School Academic Calendar (PDF)
Student Handbook

MCW Pharmacy School Student Handbook (PDF)This handbook contains information, policies, and procedures specific to students enrolled in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. It is to be used in conjunction with the MCW All Student Handbook which includes information, policies, and procedures that pertain to all students.

Medical College of Wisconsin All Student Handbook (PDF)
This handbook contains information, policies, and procedures for all students enrolled at the Medical College of Wisconsin. It is to be used in conjunction with the MCW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Handbook, the Medical School Handbook and/or the Pharmacy School Handbook which include information, policies and procedures specific to the schools.

Although every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of information in this publication, the Medical College of Wisconsin reserves the right to make changes to policies and procedures without notice as necessitated by governing authorities or administrative needs. Changes will become effective whenever the proper authorities so determine and will apply to all matriculated students.

Updates and changes are made annually to the handbook. Anyone with suggestions for amending or changing any of the information in this handbook should make those suggestions in writing to the Office of the Registrar.

It is the responsibility of the student to seek out clarification of policies and procedures. 

Campus Safety
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) prepares and publishes its Annual Campus Safety Report in compliance with the Higher Education Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). This report outlines MCW’s security policies and discloses campus crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years.

This report is available to all current and prospective faculty, staff and students. An electronic version of the report can be accessed at this location. A paper copy of this report may be obtained by contacting Medical College of Wisconsin, Public Safety, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226 or by calling (414) 955-8295. 

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Contact Us

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please contact the Office of Student Affairs.


MCW Pharmacy School

8701 Watertown Plank Rd.

Milwaukee, WI 53226


414) 955-7476

Shaun Keating
Director of Student Affairs
skeating@mcw.edu

 

Kendra Kalscheur
Coordinator of Student Affairs
kkalscheur@mcw.edu

 

Steven Broadway
Coordinator of Student Affairs
sbroadway@mcw.edu

 

Niki Karp
Administrative Assistant Sr.
nkarp@mcw.edu

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