{"id":23288,"date":"2016-08-23T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/educators-in-alaska-idaho-partner-for-pharmacy-program\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:01:07","slug":"educators-in-alaska-idaho-partner-for-pharmacy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/educators-in-alaska-idaho-partner-for-pharmacy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Educators in Alaska, Idaho partner for pharmacy program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Alaska\u2019s first doctoral pharmacy program is near its debut at the University of Alaska Anchorage through a partnership with Idaho State University.<\/p>\n<p>The program launching Monday allows students pursuing doctorates in pharmacy to stay in Alaska to finish their degrees, KTUU-TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wadsworth, ISU\/UAA college of pharmacy assistant dean of Alaska programs, said the curriculum will help bridge a gap in rural areas where communities have trouble finding enough pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people wat to stay with their families, they want to stay where they grew up, they want to influence the community that they live in,\u201d Wadsworth said. \u201cRight up until now if you wanted a degree in pharmacy you had to leave the state. There were a few distance programs, but you had to leave the state to do parts of that program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two universities have 80 students enrolled, with seven in Anchorage including Corrie Black from Kodiak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than just counting pills, Black said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much care and attention to what a pharmacist does to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long-distance learning will keep students connected from state to state.<\/p>\n<p>Wadsworth said the expansion will not be impacted by university budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program is not funded by the state,\u201d Wadsworth said. \u201cThis expansion is supported strictly by student tuition, so we\u2019re not really dependent on state funds at this time and that\u2019s been good for the program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska\u2019s first doctoral pharmacy program is near its debut at the University of Alaska Anchorage through a partnership with Idaho State University. The program launching Monday allows students pursuing doctorates in pharmacy to stay in Alaska to finish their degrees, KTUU-TV reported. Tom Wadsworth, ISU\/UAA college of pharmacy assistant dean of Alaska programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23288"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}