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AccessPharmacy Core Curriculum & Organ System Guides

In addition to a powerful search engine and the traditional textbook view, AccessPharmacy offers two custom guides to the extensive resources on the site - Core Curriculum and Organ Systems.

Core Curriculum and Organ Systems provide maps to specific topics from the over 14,000 pages of content available. Content is shown in context, with key textbook material highlighted by resource, as well as related case studies and Q&A.

AccessPharmacy's Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Terry L. Schwinghammer, oversees the selection of AccessPharmacy curricular topics. Given the variation in curricula among schools and colleges of pharmacy, the Core Curriculum and Organ System topics on AccessPharmacy are not intended to correspond to individual courses. Instead, the topics represent the fundamental scientific and clinical areas addressed in contemporary pharmacy education. The flexible organization and structure of AccessPharmacy means that its carefully chosen content can be incorporated regardless of an individual school's curricular structure.

Core Curriculum
AccessPharmacy's Core Curriculum is modeled after the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Accreditation Standards and Guidelines for the Professional Degree Program. These guidelines took effect on July 1, 2007.

AccessPharmacy's Core Curriculum corresponds to the science foundation considered to be essential for educating and training practicing pharmacists. While some curricular topics may be addressed in pre-pharmacy courses (e.g., anatomy/physiology, microbiology), the majority are included in the required or elective curriculum of most professional degree programs. To learn more about the ACPE pharmacy curriculum, please see the ACPE Accreditation Standards and Guidelines.

Organ Systems
The Organ System guide on AccessPharmacy offers a content map tailored for schools with integrated curricula. This multidisciplinary approach uses the table of contents from Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach as its foundation.