Programs that help us C.A.R.E.
BE ME Advanced Program
The BE ME Advanced Program is an innovative, community-centered professional pathway for PharmD students wanting to gain insight on how to be equipped to serve high-need and under-resourced communities. The program offers a focused professional track that integrates immersive learning experiences, longitudinal clinical training, and leadership development.
BE ME Advanced prepares students to navigate complex healthcare systems within diverse communities while remaining grounded in purpose, belonging, and service. Participants gain hands-on exposure to rural and under-resourced areas while developing cultural and systems awareness.
The program strengthens sustained relationships between future pharmacists and the communities they serve. Through this model, BE ME Advanced supports the development of a workforce equipped to lead with care and community accountability.
SCoPE
SCoPE: The Summer College of Pharmacy Experience aims to provide pharmaceutical career exploration opportunities and adequate technical and professional skills enhancement opportunities to prepare scholars for post-baccalaureate PhD and PharmD program entry.
MentorRx Communities
Visit Pharmacy Mentorship Program for more information.
Affinity Groups
Any individual in our college community is welcome to join the College of Pharmacy affinity groups. All college affinity groups are designed to bring together groups of people who represent a variety of lived experiences, to discuss their shared experiences and advocate for institutional change.
Research
Our research educates people whose health is influenced by these research areas to actively make decisions about their health outcomes and creates connections and advances knowledge into other research areas to improve health outcomes for all populations.
Previous C.A.R.E. initiatives
BE ME: Being Equipped for My Excellence
BE ME: Being Equipped for My Excellence was a program designed for students with various lived experiences that included a two- week immersion session prior to orientation for students to build connections and learn about resources the College of Pharmacy had to offer to better prepare them and their cohort for their time at the College of Pharmacy.
MNovationRx
This virtual engagement opportunity highlighted the many ways the College of Pharmacy is pursuing pipeline programs, curricular changes and student leadership opportunities, all of which will ensure the next generation of our pharmacists can help close the gap on health inequities. View the video storytelling components that were created for this program.
The Road to Inclusivity: Our work in building equity in education and health - October 2022
Land Acknowledgement
The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy acknowledges that the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses are built on the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. The Duluth campus resides on land that was cared for and called home by the Ojibwe people, before them the Dakota and Northern Cheyenne people, and other Native peoples from time immemorial. The Twin Cities campus is built within the traditional homelands of the Dakota people. It is important to acknowledge the peoples on whose land we live, learn, and work as we seek to strengthen our relations with our tribal nations. We recognize that it is our responsibility to ensure that our institution provides support, resources, and programs that increase access to all aspects of higher education for our American Indian students, staff, faculty, and community members.