USP Academic Connection

USP Academic Connection supports the development of future health sciences professionals by providing no-cost or discounted access to USP resources, enhancing learning both inside and outside of the classroom.

Complimentary Access to USP Standards

USP offers complimentary access to the U.S. Pharmacopeia – National Formulary (USP-NF) and Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) to academic institutions that confer degrees and certificates to health sciences students.

Supporting students

Access to the monographs within USP-NF and the FCC can help student pharmacists and health science students better understand how public quality standards protect public health, and learn more about standards for:

  • drugs
  • dietary supplements
  • compounded preparations
  • inactive ingredients
  • packaging and storage
  • package inserts
Supporting faculty

Access to these compendia can help faculty prepare curricula to guide students in both foundational and advanced coursework, including courses such as:

  • Foundations of Pharmacy Practice
  • Health Retrieval Info
  • Career Exploration
  • IPPE Community
  • IPPE Hospital
  • Applications of Pharmacy Practice

Librarians at academic institutions that confer degrees and certificates to health sciences students can sign up or learn more by contacting UAC@usp.org

Supporting medicines quality research

Quality medicine is essential to address the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. USP donates reference standards to universities engaged in research related to:

  • Detecting and removing poor-quality antimicrobial medicines from the market
  • Helping local health systems improve access to quality antimicrobial medicines

To learn more, please contact Nneka Madu, Impact Program Manager Nneka.Madu@usp.org

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)

Discounted USP Education courses

Students and faculty can receive 25% off on USP Education on-demand courses. Group discounts are also available. (This offer is available only to members of academic institutions in the US and Canada.)

To learn more, please contact Education@usp.org

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)

USP offers a select number of non-traditional APPE rotations for PharmD candidates throughout the year at our Rockville, Maryland headquarters. During the rotation, students will learn:

  • About USP’s role in creating healthcare standards nationally and internationally

  • How standards help protect the quality of medicines, excipients, biologics, dietary supplements, food ingredients, healthcare, and global health

  • What USP is working on today and expects to address in the future

  • How healthcare practitioners help shape USP standards

  • About the interplay of legislation, regulation, and implementation in standards development

  • Which key groups and stakeholders support and influence quality

Current USP Academic Affiliations

  • Duquesne University

  • FDA*/Indian Health

  • Howard University

  • Mercer University

  • Purdue University

  • Shenandoah University

  • University of Colorado

  • University of Maryland

  • University of Michigan

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • University of South Carolina

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Wilkes University

To find out how your students and institution might benefit from an affiliation, please contact Donna Bohannon, Senior Scientific Liaison DZB@usp.org

For all other USP Academic Connection inquiries, please contact Nneka Madu, Impact Program Manager Nneka.Madu@usp.org