Contents: first practice course expectations, ethics in pharmacy practice, pharmacy as a community-based profession, communication: an overview, rounding, documentation, and patient education, monitoring drug therapy, legal implications for pharmacy: regulatory agencies with pharmacy oversight, legal requirements for filling a prescription and political advocacy, a brief look at the construction of medical terminology and common definitions of words that are part of the pharmacy vernacular, pharmacy calculations, physical assessment skills, interpretation of clinical laboratory data, designing patient treatment plans: pharmacokinetic foundations, drug information and drug literature evaluation, community ambulatory care, institutional pharmacy practice, managed care, public health, taking it to the streets: reducing health disparities through domestic and global outreach to the underserved.