KINGSTON \u2014 December 5, 2011 — The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy set an ambitious goal for itself a few years ago \u2013 to make sure every graduating student passes his or her licensing exam following commencement. College achieves 100 percent passage rate for first time KINGSTON \u2014 December 5, 2011 — The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy set an ambitious goal for itself a few years ago \u2013 to make sure every graduating student passes his or her licensing exam following commencement. Last year\u2019s graduating class achieved that goal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-pharmd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLast year\u2019s graduating class achieved that goal for the first time in the school\u2019s history.
\nAll 89 students in the class of 2011 earned passing grades on the National Association Pharmacy Licensing Exam and the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam during the testing period from May 1 to Aug. 31.
\nNorma Owens<\/a>, chairwoman of the College of Pharmacy assessment committee, said typically 94 to 96 percent of URI graduates pass the licensing exams.
\n\u201cOne of the goals we had set as a college was to achieve a 100 percent passage rate, which was a bit of a controversial goal,\u201d Owens said. \u201cSome thought it should be 99 percent because you can\u2019t expect perfection, but some felt that if you pass the classes in the program, you should be able to pass the exam. This was the first year we achieved it.\u201d
\nAs the health care and pharmaceutical industries grow, so does the competition to attract the best and brightest students. There are now eight schools of pharmacy in New England, an ever-increasing number, Owens said.
\n\u201cIt makes us all feel very proud,\u201d Owens said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much competition now in schools of pharmacy \u2026 that it makes this achievement even more special.\u201d
\nOwens attributed much of the university\u2019s success to the personal relationships built between faculty and students. While other schools have as many as 3,500 students in their program, the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy has 572, allowing professors and preceptors to establish a better bond with students and devote more attention to their needs.
\n\u201cI think in the college we really do try to have a student-centered education,\u201d Owens said. \u201cA lot of schools have to have students bring in IDs when they take the licensing exams to make sure they are actually the students taking the test. I was kind of startled when I was asked why we didn\u2019t do that and it\u2019s because we know all of our students.\u201d
\nFor more information, call Owens at (401) 874-2964<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"