The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy started re-offering the Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy in fall 2008. From 1969 to 1996, UNC offered the Master of Science in Hospital Pharmacy. The program produced more than 200 graduates, who have gone on to careers spanning numerous pharmacy directorships, hospital executive positions, executive informatics positions, clinical leadership positions, and many more directions, both domestically and internationally. 

The goal of the Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy is to prepare pharmacists for leadership positions in health care. To accomplish this goal, the program will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to assume a variety of roles and responsibilities. Through didactic education and experiential opportunities in the workplace, we will help our graduates become vibrant, committed professionals with a focus on improving patients’ health, healthcare delivery and the profession of pharmacy.

This graduate degree is combined with a two-year hospital pharmacy residency at a major academic medical center in North Carolina (Duke University Medical Center, UNC Hospitals, and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center).

A graduate from the program will:

• have a vision for the future practice of pharmacy and possess the tools to realize that vision;
• be clinically competent in the practice of pharmacy;
• be able to envision, plan, implement, coordinate and monitor pharmaceutical care and operational services;
• understand and assume the managerial and financial responsibilities in health  system pharmacies;
• be effective stewards of human resources including recruitment, mentoring, evaluating and leading professionals and technical support staff;
• be adaptive to changes and demands for health system pharmacy practice and the health care environment in general;
• be strategic thinkers and planners who see challenges as opportunities to contribute to improving health care delivery; and
• be consistently ethical and professional in their practice.

To be eligible for this degree, one must be licensed as a pharmacist in North Carolina and must be admitted into the Graduate Program at UNC.

For more information about the Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy, please email gradinfo@unc.edu.

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