School of Pharmacy Curriculum*
NDMU School of Pharmacy reserves the right to revise the curriculum at any time when deemed necessary and to apply such revisions to registered and accepted students, and to new admissions.
Year P1
Fall Semester (16.5 credits)
Spring Semester (18.5 credits)
Year P2
Fall Semester (17.5-20.5 credits)
Spring Semester (15.5-18.5 credits)**
Year P3
Fall Semester (17.5-20.5 credits)**
Spring Semester (17.5-20.5 credits)
Year P4
Summer/Fall/Spring (39.5 credits)****
*All Pharmacotherapeutics courses are taught sequentially within a semester.
**Students take PHRD-442 Health System Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience in either P2 Spring or P3 Fall. For the semester that the student is not taking PHRD-442, subtract 3 credits from the total stated for the semester in the chart.
***Students are required to complete a minimum of 6 credit hours of professional electives for graduation, which must be accomplished over a minimum of three (3) courses, with only one research elective to satisfy the requirement.
****All APPE are five weeks in duration except for one APPE Block which is 6 weeks.