About Our School
For the past generation, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has made a difference in the lives of West Texans and in health care professions by educating doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. In August of 1996, the Health Sciences Center expanded its commitment by offering a Doctor of Pharmacy degree through the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy.
The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program at Texas Tech offers a new school and cutting-edge technology to educate students, while still maintaining the time-tested traditions and values of the profession of pharmacy. Small classes consisting of competitive students will ensure that graduating professionals will be prepared for careers in all areas of pharmacy, including community pharmacy and institutional pharmacy practice. With advanced training, students also will be prepared for specialty practice and research careers.
The curriculum is student centered, providing problem based educational experiences with five or six students in small tutorial groups guided by an instructor. Courses will be integrated to teach students the application of basic concepts in patient care.
Clinical experiences will cover the spectrum of practical knowledge needed to be a successful pharmacist. Classes and clinical experiences during the first year teach patient communication skills, while the second year develops community pharmacy practice skills. The third year will focus on institutional pharmacy practice and beginning patient care, and the fourth year will develop student abilities in advanced patient care skills. Students will be offered the opportunity to complete fourth year full-time clinical experiences in Amarillo, Dallas, Lubbock, or El Paso.
The School of Pharmacy is housed in a 102,000-square-foot building on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Amarillo. The building includes a drug information center, a lecture center, computer based classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, as well as several instructional and research laboratories.
The opportunity for faculty to be integrally involved in shaping the future of pharmacy education has provided the School of Pharmacy with the ability to make selections from among many outstanding candidates. Faculty members have been recruited from across the country and comprise an energetic group dedicated to the innovative development of contemporary pharmacy education. With these facilities and dedicated faculty, the School of Pharmacy will carry on a tradition of excellence at the Health Sciences Center, educating tomorrow's health care professional to serve West Texas.
Affiliated Teaching Hospitals
School of Pharmacy faculty and students provide patient care in the following hospitals:
- Amarillo VAMC
- Baptist/Saint Anthony's Healthcare System
- Northwest Texas Healthcare System
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Childrens Medical Center - Dallas
- Cooks Children's Health Care System
- Harris Methodist Ft. Worth Hospital
- Presbyterian Health Care System - Dallas
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- VA North Texas Health Care System
- UMC Health System
- Covenant Health System