Post-Graduate Programs
Post-Doctoral Fellows Program
The VCU Department of Pharmacy offers a Combined Degree Program allowing selected
students the opportunity to simultaneously obtain a Pharm.D. and M.S. or Ph.D. degree.
This document summarizes an optional post-doctoral training program (called the
Post-Doctoral-Fellows Program (PDFP) for selected students enrolled in the pharmacotherapy
track of the Pharm.D./M.S. program. This PDFP option is not currently available
for applicants who already have completed requirements for a pharmacy degree.
Pharmacy Practice Residency
The Pharmacy Practice Residency is a twelve-month program designed and structured
to provide the organized health care practice community and the pharmacy profession
with knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful practitioners who can provide direct
patient care services in an institutional practice environment. It supplements an
academic pharmacy education and provides the opportunity and necessary stimulus
for graduate pharmacists to develop their knowledge and expertise in the provision
of pharmaceutical care. The program is flexibly designed to accommodate the training
needs of Doctor of Pharmacy degree graduates. This residency participates in the
ASHP Matching Program.