Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
pharmacy school of the University of Toronto
The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is the pharmacy school and an academic division of the University of Toronto. The school is based on the St. George campus at the northwestern corner of College Street and University Avenue, placing it across from the Ontario Legislative Building and at the entrance to Queen's Park station. It is also situated near four internationally renowned hospitals in the Toronto Academic Health Science Network—The Hospital for Sick Children, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. It is part of Toronto's Discovery District.
History
The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto began in 1953, when the Ontario College of Pharmacy (now Pharmacists) who first operated at the school had merged into the school curriculum. By 1868, the pharmacy program consisted of only a few evenings of voluntary classes, with no practically prerequisite classes. However, the long, traditional apprenticeship of this professional field had pressed a strong emphasis onto the students. Today, the program has evolved into "a compulsory, four-year second-entry scientific and professional university course with a supervised period of professional practice." The organisation of this program has become significantly more structured. This change in focus strayed away from the predominant emphasis of the practice of training through an apprenticeship to today's emphasis of a theoretical study and application of those skills in real-life situations.
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