Doctor of Pharmacy PharmD
**The Pharmacy Experiential Program at UM is composed of a minimum of 1,680 hours, and a maximum of 1,920 hours, of advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) for fourth professional year students in the entry-level Pharm. D. program. This ensures all students meet no less than the 1,440 APPE hours as required by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and provides additional hours for licensure anywhere in the United States. All APPEs are six-week rotations. Students must complete four required rotations in the following practice settings: ambulatory patient care, community pharmacy, hospital/health system pharmacy, and inpatient general medicine patient care for a total of 960 hours. Additional hours are distributed over a minimum of three, and a maximum of four, six-week elective APPEs. Two of the electives must be in patient care APPEs. One APPE must be completed in a setting that serves a rural or medically underserved patient population. All APPEs are taken on a credit/no credit basis where the focus is on building competency and progression towards practice-readiness