Pharmacy Student Resources

As an admitted student, you are required to attend our New Student Orientation Week prior to the start of class.

Students enrolled in the Pharmacy program are required to maintain health insurance coverage during their attendance at USJ.

The Key Components of Our Health Requirements Are:

• Vaccination records
• Physical examination
• Tuberculosis testing

All documents should be uploaded to My Health, the Student Health Portal on my.usj.edu.  We recommend that you keep copies of all documents and forms that you send in. Having a digital copy of these records will prove valuable during your student and professional career.

For specifics regarding immunization requirements please refer to your admissions packet for new students or to the Pharmacy Program Student Handbook for current students.

Explore student housing options on campus in West Hartford or the Hartford area.

Housing for students is available around the Hartford area. This listing of off-campus housing does not represent an endorsement or recommendation as to the quality or appropriateness of the housing; rather, it contains possibilities that you may wish to consider in your search.

For a large-scale search by area, visit

• www.apartments.com
•  www.trulia.com
•  apartmentList.com/ct/hartford

The campus parking map and information can be found here.

USJ’s Doctor of Pharmacy program includes two major experiential education components.

The Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE)

• Begin in the very first semester
• Offered concurrently with didactic classes to reinforce learning experience
• Scheduled as a two-week segment at the end of the P1 Fall semester, a four-week  segment in May of the P1 year,  and a two-week segment at the beginning of the P2 Spring semester.

The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE)

• Six, six-week APPEs occur during the final year of the curriculum
• Integrate classroom knowledge, professional performance, and professionalism
• Ensure competency in the provision of patient care
• Include four required rotations (one each in institutional/hospital practice, advanced community practice, ambulatory care and adult acute care) and two elective rotations

Please note: reliable transportation is a requirement. Students are placed in rotations on a random basis at sites in CT, MA, and RI. No special exceptions can be made. The School of Pharmacy and Physician Assistant Studies reserves the right to place students in any location to ensure graduation requirements are met.

Current students and Preceptors can find the USJ Pharmacy Practice Experience Manual and other useful information about the program in the Documents Library of their CORE ELMS account.

Become familiar with state regulations regarding pharmacy internship and licensure. Each state has very specific regulations concerning pharmacy interns as well as pharmacy licensure.

• It is your responsibility to become familiar with state regulations to ensure your experiential hours can be counted toward your state’s licensure requirements.
• A pharmacy intern license from the State of Connecticut is required of all students before you can begin any Pharmacy Practice Experience rotation, even if you have an intern registration in another state.
• Proof of Connecticut intern licensure must be provided to the USJ Doctor of Pharmacy Office of Experiential Education before beginning any experiential education rotation.

Complete State Laws & Regulations:

• National Boards of Pharmacy
• State of Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection
• Pharmacy Commission State of Connecticut