2. New Student Welcome Day Student Affairs Office
Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCPAP, FAPhA
Associate Dean Student Affairs /

3. P1 year courses Fall 2019 (18 credits) Spring 2020 (17 credits)
PHAR 503: Genomics and Proteomics
PHAR 504: Physical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
PHAR 505: Abilities-based Lab 1
PHAR 506: Principles of Drug Action
PHAR 510: Biochemistry
PHAR 5000: General Patient Management
PHAR 5023: Professional Foundations of Pharmacy
Spring 2020 (17 credits)
PHAR 518 Abilities-based Lab 2
PHAR 525: Immunology
PHAR 533: Medicinal Chemistry 1
PHAR 539: Medicinal Chemistry 2
PHAR 5001: Applied Science and Therapeutics 1
PHAR 5002: Applied Science and Therapeutics 2
PHAR 5009: Medical Evidence
PHAR 2024: Professional Foundations of Pharmacy 2
IPPE 100: Introduction to Pharmacy Practice (Fall 2020 registration)

5. Student Affairs Office
Pharmacy Hall 7th floor, South 722
Services
Admissions / Recruitment
Records / Registration
Tutoring services
Career Development
Career Navigation
Career resources
Internships/Positions
Student issues/advising
FORMS!!!
Events
White Coat
Graduation

6. Dates and Schedules Orientation: Week of August 19, 2019
Class start 8/26/19
White Coat Ceremony 9/13/2019
Academic Calendar
Class Schedules
Books

7. Class information Class advisor: Paul Shapiro, PhD
Class Officers: Elected in October
Advising Groups:
All students are maintained in the same groups each year
2 faculty advisors
Group assignments provided during orientation

8. https://documents. rx. umaryland

9. What is Portal? “One stop shopping” Registered courses
Advisor information
Group assignments
Plan of study each semester
Room schedules
Blackboard
Required training (due Sept 15)
Office information/forms/policies
Career Development
can open self registration to students whenever we like. Pull info from sims/banner regarding admitted students
early august makes more sense because then enrollment lists close to what they should be, and our office would be registering them for classes in early august.

10. Important points Housing-Vendor Fair Immunizations (Castlebranch)
ealth/immunization-requirements/
Student Insurance (Gallagher)
ealth/waiving-student-health- coverage/
Housing: campus offers on campus housing; pascault row on lexington or fayette square (corner of greene and fayette)
Health form: must be completed, or registration cannot be completed until this is done
Student insurance: all full time students must have insurance. Waiver forms must be completed by mid september. Form available from student health

11. Important points
Transcripts for prerequisites due before classes start in August
Registration: completed by SOP beginning of August
CPR: Get certified between 9/1 and 12/31/2019
Information to be sent how to post completion of CPR to Core/RxPreceptor
Background checks/Drug Screen may be required by rotation sites

12. Important points Email (Invitations Sent) Laptop Requirements
Blackboard Access
ExamSoft

13. Important points ADA accomodations Veteran status
Online training and policy review
Expectations
School
Professionalism
Work
Communication

14. Important points Scholarships Financial Aid (Campus) SOP and Campus
FAFSA

15. Pharmacy Technicians In order to work as a 1st year student, you can:
Obtain/Maintain your pharmacy technician license; OR
Obtain the P1 student exemption:
Forms/APPS/technicians/Pharmacy%20Student%20Technici an%20Exemption%20Form%20Final.pdf
Student Affairs Office will provide Affidavits for your exemption application once you are registered (end of July)

17. Pharmacy Intern
After completion of your first year, you can then register as a pharmacy intern
Benefits?
More delegated tasks by the pharmacist
You must be a registered pharmacy intern to work in a pharmacy after graduation but before pharmacist licensure
Student Affairs Office will provide Affidavits for your intern application
Forms/APPS/interns/Intern_Initial_Application%20update%20final.pdf
P2 students then submit the initial intern application to the board with the updated affidavit

18. A few parting words Enjoy the rest of your summer
Please look out for communications from us
Complete your prerequisites
See you in August for required orientation