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The Mission of Phi Delta Chi

MISSION:

PHI DELTA CHI PHARMACY FRATERNITY develops leaders to advance the profession of pharmacy.

PHI DELTA CHI, a life-long experience, promotes scholastic, professional, and social growth in its Brothers. In this way, we encourage service to patients and improvement of the public health and our profession.

We help people become better people.

VALUES:

PHI DELTA CHI Brothers seek enhanced professional and personal success and satisfaction. PHI DELTA CHI helps both pharmacy students and pharmacists improve personal and professional skills, inspiring confidence and character and providing insight into human nature. PHI DELTA CHI encourages Brothers to develop as leader, as excellent pharmacists and as well-rounded citizens. Outstanding pharmacists are the most important product of PHI DELTA CHI. In our union, we are Brothers for Life.

PHI DELTA CHI Brothers improve the health of their patients through the delivery of extraordinary pharmaceutical care. The crowning glory of all PHI DELTA CHI Brothers is to serve. By training, educating, preparing, and connecting excellent pharmacists, PHI DELTA CHI advances the public health and the profession. The best health care requires the best pharmacists.

VISION:

As a national organization, PHI DELTA CHI strives to improve its programs to better serve our Brothers, our profession, and the public. Each Brother strives to improve as a person and as a pharmacist. We all strive to reach more Brothe rs by expanding to more colleges of pharmacy. And we strive to strengthen our local and national bonds with alumni Brothers across the country.

ACTION:

PHI DELTA CHI is America's first professional fraternity in pharmacy. Since 1883, we have worked to advance the profession of pharmacy and its allied interests, and to foster and promote a fraternal spirit among our Brothers. We intend to continue to be first as a source of progress for the profession. These primary programs will improve our Brothers and their communities:

  • Programs to recognize excellence in leadership and scholarship among collegiate and alumni Brothers and Chapters.
  • The Prescott Leadership Award for excellence in a young pharmacist.
  • Training and education programs to improve therapeutic, leadership, and management skills of pharmacy students and pharmacists.
  • Professional and service programs to help the community.
  • Communication programs and publications to link all Brothers.
  • Fraternal programs to foster our Brotherhood.


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For pharmacy students, Phi Delta Chi:

  1. Fosters fraternal spirit and camaraderie
  2. Develops leadership skills
  3. Develops the sense of professionalism
  4. Develops civic responsibility
  5. Supports academic curricula
  6. Develops interpersonal-relationship skills
  7. Develops communication skills
  8. Develops resource-management skills
  9. Integrates pharmacy theory with pharmacy practice
  10. Enables career counseling

For Brothers after graduation, Phi Delta Chi:

  1. Provides opportunities for continued fraternalism
  2. Provides channels of communication to alma mater, collegiate Chapter, and fellow alumni Brothers
  3. Provides opportunities to assi st pharmacy students
  4. Provides opportunities for career networking
  5. Provides peer recognition of professional and personal achievements
  6. Further develops leadership skills
  7. Further develops professional skills
  8. Further develops communication and management skills
  9. Welcomes Brothers' families into the fraternal fold
  10. Further develops them as well-rounded pharmacists

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