September 8, 2006
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
By Staff
Founded in 1823, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) is the second-oldest college of pharmacy in the United States and the oldest institution of higher education in Boston. Since its founding, the college has dramatically expanded in order to produce the best education possible for health-care leaders across a growing range of disciplines. In 2000, the college opened a second campus in downtown Worcester, and in 2002 a third campus was created in Manchester, New Hampshire.MCPHS-Worcester offers the area’s only academic program devoted to professional pharmacy education — an accelerated, three-year Pharm.D. (Doctor of Pharmacy) program. In addition, an innovative, 16-month Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is available for students who already possess an undergraduate degree in another field. Future baccalaureate programs under consideration for the Worcester campus include Radiologic Sciences and Dental Hygiene.For students embarking on their clinical rotations, MCPHS-Worcester is ideally located in the heart of a thriving academic and medical community that includes the Worcester Medical Center, Saint Vincent Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.Under the dynamic leadership of President Charles F. Monahan Jr. — who is a Worcester native and graduate of the college — MCPHS has invested more than $40 million in its state-of-the-art campus located in two brilliantly renovated former industrial buildings on Foster Street.The Henrietta DeBenedictis Building, named in honor of one of the college’s most generous philanthropists, is a 60,000-square-foot facility formerly known as The Lowell Building. It features a contemporary instructional pharmacy and compounding laboratory, complete with adjacent patient counseling and sterile products rooms; multi-media auditoriums and classrooms; a health sciences library with electronic audio/video linkages to other MCPHS campuses, as well as other academic and medical libraries; faculty and administrative offices; and a student lounge.In the fall of 2005, MCPHS-Worcester opened a second campus building located at 25 Foster St. The nine-story Living and Learning Center contains three floors of laboratory and academic space, five floors of student housing and a dramatic ninth-floor conference center. The five floors of apartment-style housing provide much-needed on-campus living space for 175 students.MCPHS-Worcester also houses the headquarters of MassMedLine, a state-wide community outreach service providing medication access information and counseling to elderly and under-insured patients. MassMedLine’s toll-free hotline is accessible to both the general public and the professional community to assist clients in obtaining free or low-cost medications through the myriad of programs offered by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as state and federal agencies.MCPHS-Worcester embraces a set of core values that reflect commitment to preparing competent, caring, ethical health professionals and scientists to meet the need for quality health care and cutting-edge knowledge: Learner-centered teaching and student engagement that fosters intellectual vitality, critical thinking and lifelong responsibility for learning and continuing professional development; Honesty, integrity, professionalism and personal responsibility; Respect for diversity and appreciation of cross-cultural perspectives; Adaptability and flexibility in response to the ever-changing external environment; Effective and efficient use of resources to maximize value to those we serve; Excellence and innovation in education, scholarship/research and service, including outreach to the community; A productive, satisfying work and learning environment that is built upon cross-disciplinary and cross-campus collaboration; Integration of the liberal arts and basic sciences with professional studies; Scholarship that contributes to knowledge development, improvement of health sciences education and improvement of health care and health outcomes; and education that fosters development of the whole person.
MCPHS-Worcester provides a unique academic environment to guide and support students toward successful, sustainable careers and leadership in health care. As a private independent institution with a long and distinguished history of specializing in health sciences education, the college offers programs that embody teaching excellence, active scholarship and research, professional service and community outreach. Accordingly, admission to MCPHS-Worcester is competitive and its graduates are highly sought-after by employers throughout the region and the country.
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