The Pharmacy Building
In addition to well-equipped classrooms, laboratories and offices, the Pharmacy Building provides a Student Computer Laboratory and a computer teaching lab, offering a total of 42 desktop computers; a separate lab devoted to helping students and faculty develop presentations and curriculum using the latest in instructional technology; two classrooms used for interactive distance learning; and pharmaceutical technology laboratories with facilities for product development, pilot manufacturing, sterile production and quality control, and stability testing. The University Health Services Pharmacy, located in the Student Services Building one block away, also serves as a teaching laboratory for fourth-year pharmacy students, while providing comprehensive pharmaceutical services to the student community.Pharmacy Faculty, staff, and students may request room reservations by filling out our on-line request form.
Pharmacy Facilities in San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has provided facilities for the education and training of pharmacy students, residents, and fellows since 1972. The McDermott Clinical Sciences Building on the Health Science Center campus houses faculty and staff in the Division of Pharmacotherapy. Within the space allocated to pharmacy is a state-or-the art interactive television classroom, a small classroom, two small conference rooms, a student lounge and more than 6,000 square feet of research lab space. The Drug Information Service occupies an additional 1,500 square feet and is located within the Briscoe Library on the main campus. In addition, College of Pharmacy faculty are members of interdisciplinary research teams that evaluate new therapies for patients with mental illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and cancer.Office of Pharmacy Continuing Education
As part of a state university, the College of Pharmacy recognizes obligations to the profession of pharmacy on a state, national, and international level. The College began providing continuing education to pharmacists in 1953 in cooperation with the University's Division of Extension. The Office of Pharmacy Continuing Education continues to provide innovative programming to meet the varied needs of pharmacy professionals. A primary goal of the office is to advance the pharmacist's knowledge and the skills necessary to adapt to a changing environment. Continuing education is offered through postgraduate seminars and conferences conducted both on and off campus, and through written correspondence coursework.Learning Resource Center
The College's Learning Resource Center (LRC) offers a variety of instructional
resources to students and faculty members. As one of the innovators of live,
interactive distance learning on the UT campus over 20 years ago, the College
continues to serve students through distance education. The LRC provides two-way
and multi-point digital video teleconferencing transmission of core curriculum
courses between the Austin campus and the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio,
UT PanAm in Edinburg, and UT El Paso, so that faculty members can teach students
at up to four locations simultaneously. At the discretion of the professor,
many of these courses are videotaped and recorded to DVD and made available
for checkout in the
Jaime N. Delgado LRC, which is open six days
a week. These
courses are also available as streaming video on any computer on-campus and,
with a broadband connection such as RoadRunner or DSL, off-campus.
The LRC maintains and supports three distance learning classrooms in the College.
The largest (PHR 3.106)
seats 136 students and provides desktop power and ethernet connections
at each seat. A state-of-the-art microphone system allows viewers at the distance
site to see and hear individual students as they speak. There are three remote-controlled
cameras in the room which can be controlled from the interactive teacher's console,
which also provides controls for lighting, audio and auxiliary equipment. Students
view the distant site, as well as any computer presentation provided by the
instructor, on two 6 ft. x 8 ft screens.
The medium (PHR 4.114)
sized videoconferencing classroom seats fifty-five, and the
smallest
(PHR 2.208) room, a conference room facility, seats approximately twenty. Each
of these rooms is equipped with data/video projection, microphones, and other
equipment for distance education.
The staff of the LRC provides faculty members, staff, and students with computer
hardware and software consulting as well as advice on the use of media in the
classroom. Every classroom in the College is equipped with technology such as
data projectors to facilitate the use of advanced teaching techniques.
In the open access Student Computer Laboratory, students may use PC-compatible
computers with productivity, graphics and other specialized software. Each machine
is connected at a very fast speed to the campus Ethernet network and beyond
to the Internet. Twenty-three PCs with the same features are housed in an electronic
classroom; the classroom is used for courses in which the computer is integrated
into the teaching process.
The goal of the Learning Resource Center is to provide the highest quality learning
technology infrastructure and related support services.
Libraries
The Life Science Library, a branch of the General Libraries, supports the teaching and research mission of the College of Pharmacy. The collection contains more than 179,000 volumes, with 1,200 serial subscriptions in the pharmaceutical, medical, and biological sciences. The library maintains extensive holdings in pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmacy administration and medicinal chemistry with supporting materials in medicine. Biochemistry, nutrition and medicinal chemistry material in the Life Science Library is complemented by the collections of the Mallet Chemistry Library. Additional medical material, primarily nursing, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry/psychology and health education, is located in the Perry-Castaneda Library.UT Library Online offers MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, BIOSIS, CINAHL, and PsycInfo databases which support pharmacy/health topics. Accounts are maintained with OVID, National Library of Medicine, DIALOG Knight-Ridder and other online service vendors for access to less frequently requested databases. The General Libraries is designated as a U.S. Patent Depository and a U.S. Government Documents Depository and maintains the tools and databases needed for access to those materials.
All units of the General Libraries offer reference service, circulation and reserve services, access to computer-based information services, interlibrary loan, and photocopy service. The General Libraries' electronic information resources and services are delivered to students, faculty and staff through UT Library Online (UTLOL) on the World Wide Web. Users can access UTLOL in the library or through remote access at home or in offices.
1 December 2004
College of Pharmacy at
UT Austin
Comments to:
pharmacy@www.utexas.edu
College of Pharmacy at UT Austin
Comments to: pharmacy@www.utexas.edu