Mission and Goals | PCOM School of Pharmacy | Suwanee, GA
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Mission and Goals 
PCOM School of Pharmacy

Mission Statement

PCOM School of Pharmacy prepares the next generation of competent, compassionate, and collaborative pharmacists who improve whole-person health through a culture of excellence in interprofessional practice, education, scholarship, and community engagement.

Vision Statement

To be recognized as a leader in educating student pharmacists, by fostering a close-knit, interprofessional learning community, advancing whole-person health and the pharmacy profession.

Core Values

  • Collaboration
  • Innovation
  • Professionalism
  • Leadership
  • Excellence

School of Pharmacy Goals

To attract qualified applicants and provide a holistically supportive learning environment promoting academic and professional success, and overall wellness achieving on-time graduation, first-time passing of the NAPLEX and MPJE, and post-graduate success in the pharmacy profession.

Strategies and Tactics:

  1. Expand and strengthen the pool of qualified candidates.
    1. Expand recruiting at undergraduate institutions at their health professions career fairs.
    2. Host monthly Career PharmD (alumni) and Inspiring Journey (faculty) series.
  2. Cultivate a holistically supportive learning environment.
    1. Utilize early interventions strategies including academic alerts and study hall.
    2. Provide peer tutoring for all students.
    3. Integrate academic care support specialists into the learning experience.
    4. Provide academic advising throughout the program.
  3. Foster graduate readiness for career and academic success.
    1. Maintain curricular rigor with focus on pharmacotherapy and calculations, including implementing a progressive passing bar for calculations.
    2. Implement the comprehensive remediation plan.
    3. Organize annual Career and Fellowship Fair.

To attract, develop, and retain qualified staff, faculty and preceptors by enhancing institutional and programmatic visibility and reputation.

Strategies and Tactics:

  1. To enhance the visibility and reputation of PCOM School of Pharmacy:
    1. Promote achievements through highlighting accomplishments on social media platforms.
    2. Strengthen community engagement through outreach programs and meetings.
    3. Enhance overall programmatic visibility at conferences.
    4. Develop strategic marketing by highlighting alumni achievements.
    5. Expand collaborations with partner experiential sites and PCOM academic programs.
  2. To recognize and honor achievements of staff, faculty and preceptors:
    1. Highlight achievements via newsletters or bulletin boards.
    2. Annual staff, faculty and preceptor awards event.
  3. To implement effective onboarding, mentoring and continuous professional development:
    1. Build incentive program for participation in professional development activities (i.e.events, conferences and networking seminar/books/podcasts).
    2. Develop a book club to foster personal and professional growth.
    3. Build a culture for coaching and mentoring for staff and faculty.

To promote collaborative and innovative scholarship that generates long-term revenue initiatives, ensuring continued growth and impact.

Strategies and Tactics:

  1. Develop a workforce to increase visibility of the institution through publications and participation.
    1. Support faculty to generate revenue through consultancy, continuing education, and contract research.
    2. Increase the number of peer-reviewed publications, abstract submissions, and presentations at meetings and conferences.
    3. Celebrate innovative, collaborative research by faculty and students that attracts external funding through endowments, foundations, and corporate partnerships.
  2. Support faculty to establish and maintain cutting-edge research.
    1. Collaborate with the PCOM Division of Research to provide small grants to fund high-risk, high-reward projects.
    2. Offer workshops on entrepreneurship, patenting, and launching of startup based on faculty research findings.
  3. Develop and participate in research-intensive groups.
    1. Develop preclinical and clinical research faculty groups through collaboration to establish pharmaceutical industry-sponsored projects.

Doctor of Pharmacy Program Educational Outcomes

In January 2025, the Joint Assessment and Curriculum Committees of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus School of Pharmacy approved the adoption of the Curricular Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) as the program’s official educational outcomes (EOs). These EOs provide a foundational framework to guide the design, delivery, and continuous review of the curriculum and are evaluated as part of the School of Pharmacy’s comprehensive Assessment Plan.

  1. Knowledge
    1. Scientific Thinking (Learner): Seek, analyze, integrate, and apply foundational knowledge of medications and pharmacy practice (biomedical; pharmaceutical; social, behavioral, administrative; and clinical sciences; drug classes; and digital health).
  2. Skills
    1. Problem-solving Process (Problem-solver): Use problem solving and critical thinking skills, along with an innovative mindset, to address challenges and to promote positive change.
    2. Communication (Communicator): Actively engage, listen, and communicate verbally, nonverbally, and in writing when interacting with or educating an individual, group, or organization.
    3. Cultural and Structural Humility (Ally): Mitigate health disparities by considering, recognizing, and navigating cultural and structural factors to improve access and health outcomes.
    4. Person-centered Care (Provider): Provide whole person care and comprehensive medication management to individuals as the medication specialist using the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process.
    5. Advocacy (Advocate): Promote the best interests of patients and/or the pharmacy profession within healthcare settings and at the community, state, or national level.
    6. Medication-use Process Stewardship (Steward): Optimize patient healthcare outcomes using human, financial, technological, and physical resources to improve the safety, efficacy, and environmental impact of medication use systems.
    7. Interprofessional Collaboration (Collaborator): Actively engage and contribute as a healthcare team member by demonstrating core interprofessional competencies.
    8. Population Health and Wellness (Promoter): Assess factors that influence the health and wellness of a population and develop strategies to address those factors.
    9. Leadership (Leader): Demonstrate the ability to influence and support the achievement of shared goals on a team, regardless of one’s role.
  3. Attitudes
    1. Self-awareness (Self-aware): Examine, reflect on, and address personal and professional attributes (e.g., knowledge, metacognition, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, help-seeking strategies, and emotional intelligence that could enhance or limit growth, development, & professional identity formation.
    2. Professionalism (Professional): Exhibit attitudes and behaviors that embody a commitment to building and maintaining trust with patients, colleagues, other health care professionals, and society.

Core Entrustable Professional Activities

In January 2025, the Joint Assessment and Curriculum Committees of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus School of Pharmacy approved the adoption of the 2022 Curricular Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) developed by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). The Core Entrustable Professional Activities for New Pharmacy Graduates serve as essential, practice-ready competencies and form a foundation for curricular design, delivery, and assessment within the program.

  1. Collect information necessary to identify a patient’s medication-related problems and health-related needs.
  2. Assess collected information to determine a patient’s medication-related problems and health-related needs.
  3. Create a care plan in collaboration with the patient, others trusted by the patient, and other health professionals to optimize pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment.
  4. Contribute patient-specific medication-related expertise as part of an interprofessional care team.
  5. Answer medication-related questions using scientific literature.
  6. Implement a care plan in collaboration with the patient, others trusted by the patient, and other health professionals.
  7. Fulfill a medication order.
  8. Educate the patient and others trusted by the patient regarding the appropriate use of a medication, device to administer a medication, or self-monitoring test.
  9. Monitor and evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a care plan.
  10. Report adverse drug events and/or medication errors in accordance with site- specific procedures.
  11. Deliver medication or health-related education to health professionals or the public.
  12. Identify populations at risk for prevalent diseases and preventable adverse medication outcomes.
  13. Perform the technical, administrative, and supporting operations of a pharmacy practice site.

Research Goals

School of Pharmacy faculty members engage in scholarship consistent with the School’s mission and contribute to scientific knowledge associated with the practice of pharmacy and medicine. In its didactic and experiential curriculum, the School of Pharmacy provides exposure to students in many different aspects of pharmacy including clinical and basic pharmaceutical science research. Students receive instruction in research methods, establishing evidence-based medicine practice principles, and critical evaluation of research literature.

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Service and Practice Goals

The School of Pharmacy serves the State of Georgia, the surrounding region and the nation by attracting from all areas to help reduce the shortage of readily accessible healthcare providers. Our faculty and students contribute to state and national professional organizations, and help advance cost-effective healthcare outcomes in pharmacy practice and the profession, and improve patients’ quality of life as key members of the interprofessional healthcare team.