Welcome from the Dean
Welcome to the Belmont School of Pharmacy web site. You will find this site to be a valuable source of information for learning about our pharmacy program, determining course selection, and finding out what life is like at Belmont University.We enrolled 75 students in the fall of 2008 as the first class in the School of Pharmacy. From 2008 to 2010 we will be housed in the Gordon E. Inman Center, Belmont's beautiful state-of-the-art health sciences facility. In the fall of 2010, we will move into the new health sciences building complete with new student, faculty, lab, and classroom space for pharmacy.
We are proud of Belmont University's beautiful and positive campus atmosphere. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Belmont serves as an asset to the community and a supplier to a world class health care community. As a student at Belmont you will be given the opportunity to learn from active pharmacy practitioners in the classroom as well as in health care institutions and pharmacy operations throughout your student career. From the first year on, you will be exposed to innovative practice sites in retail pharmacy, hospitals, clinics, long term care facilities, corporations, pharmacy industry, and compounding centers. You will learn this exciting practice in a “hands-on” fashion from practitioners who are motivated and willing to share their interests.
While pharmacy is a new program at Belmont, we are not new to educating health care professionals. Belmont University is well-respected in the health care industry for its nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and social work programs. During your student experience you should expect to learn from other professions, share experiences and talents with them, and learn how to collaborate to assure the best patient outcomes possible.
At the present time the Belmont School of Pharmacy is seeking full accreditation. When a new school is announced, the accrediting entity (in this case the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education) is notified; the accreditation process begins at the time of the announcement and continues until after the first class graduates. There are currently several new pharmacy schools in the U.S. undergoing accreditation. While the student entering a school in process of accreditation does assume some risk, please understand that the accrediting body will work with Belmont in its endeavor to fulfill or surpass all necessary criteria for full accreditation, and you will be kept informed of the school’s progress. I encourage you to read a full description of the accreditation process.
Sincerely,
Philip E. Johnston, PharmD
Dean, School of Pharmacy
