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For those interested in its doctor of pharmacy program, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host an open house and admission information session at the University of North Carolina at Asheville on Wednesday, Sept. 29.
The session will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in rooms 223 and 224 of Highsmith Union on the UNC Asheville campus and will cover pharmacy as a career, the doctor of pharmacy (the degree for practicing pharmacists), admission criteria and the application process.
In fall 2011, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will add up to twenty-five students based in Asheville to its doctor-of-pharmacy program enrollment. All those interested in enrolling in the PharmD program must apply to UNC-Chapel Hill through PharmCAS, a centralized application service, at www.pharmcas.org. They must also complete a supplemental application available through the pharmacy school’s Web site. More information can be found at pharmacy.unc.edu/pharmd. The deadline for applications is November 1.
In April, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors approved the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s plans to bring its pharmacy education program to Asheville as an expansion of the successful partnership the School has had with Elizabeth City State University since 2005. The Elizabeth City satellite program graduated its second class in May.
Asheville was considered the natural choice for locating a second satellite pharmacy program because of the close working partnership between the UNC Asheville, Mission Health System, and UNC-Chapel Hill. The satellite program in Asheville, like its counterpart in Elizabeth City, will educate more pharmacists in an area of North Carolina that doesn’t have enough health-care providers in general.
