Groundbreaking moments during the Golod administration

At the request of the college, Dean Emeritus Bill Golod once compiled a list of groundbreaking highlights during his tenure: 

1. The first college in the country to require a clinical experience for all undergraduate students.
2. The first college in the country to develop and utilize a comprehensive computerized patient record system for the community pharmacist.
3. The first college in the country to require that instructors in the “Clinical” areas be practitioners.
4. The first college in the country to develop a Drug Information Data Base for the practicing pharmacist.
5. The first college in the country to  recognize the need for interdisciplinary training in an ambulatory care setting.
6. The first college in the country to aid in the implementation of a “Unit Dose” system for an entire teaching hospital.
7. The first college in the country to provide, and be reimbursed for, a pharmacokinetics dosing service for all patients in the Medical University Hospital.
8. The first college where Pharm.D. graduates, specializing in ambulatory care, entered into true group practices with family physicians throughout the State.
9. The first college in the country to offer a comprehensive drug abuse course for law enforcement officers.
10. We were the first College of Pharmacy in the Southeast to have an ASHP accredited residency program in hospital pharmacy.
11. Approved to award the Pharm.D. degree by the Commission on Higher Education, April, 1973.
12. Approved to award the Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Commission on Higher Education, February, 1981.
13. The first College of Pharmacy in the country to be responsible for all Pharmacy Services on its campus (1979.)
14. The first College of Pharmacy in the Country to have its residency program funded as an Academic Program (1988.)

Read Bill Golod: An Appreciation