This course explores the profession of pharmacy and its evolution. The course will evaluate and discuss the role of pharmacists and pharmacy practice as they relate to patient care, other health professionals, and roles in state and federal health care issues. The concept of professionalism will be explored and reflected upon during the course. Students will have the opportunity to participate in different activities in the clinical setting and to engage with other health professionals.

Terms: Fall

The course will focus on the social determinants of health and consider their impact within the Social Ecological Model of Health. The model includes individual, interpersonal, organizational, community and public policy levels. This class will consist of quizzes, lectures, assessments, case discussion, panel presentations and group zip code project.

Terms: Fall/Winter

This course is the first in the pharmacy practice skills series that focuses on contemporary community pharmacy practice. Topics covered include introduction to law, interpretation of prescriptions, principles of compounding and dispensing of medications, pharmaceutical calculations, top 50 medications, introduction to drug information, and activities related to health promotion and disease prevention in the community setting.

Terms: Fall

This course serves as an introduction to calculations in pharmacy practice. It will cover topics related to calculations needed for medication compounding, medication dispensing, patient specific dosing, and medication costs. The skills learned in this course will be reinforced throughout the curriculum.

Terms: Fall

Students will engage in activities reinforcing key communications skills, including patient interviewing and counseling. The role of cultural influences on communication of health information is explored. Students also work on these skills outside the classroom with a community partner. The skills learned in this course will be reinforced throughout the PharmD curriculum. Two hours of lecture/discussion and 3 hours lab per week.

Terms: Fall

This class explores strategies to integrate health and wellness as a part of student success. Students discuss the transition into professional school, building resilience, promoting self-care, combating perfectionism, minimizing isolation, time management, and mindfulness. Strategies for successful and healthy ways of coping with stress will be discovered.

*Students may count only one of Pharmacy 507, CPTS 515, or HS 575 toward the professional elective credit requirement.*

Terms: Fall

The Life-Long Learning (IPPE/APPE) course promotes professional development, commitment to self-improvement, accountability for one’s learning as well as work and commitment to excellence. Over the course of the term, students are required to independently complete a variety of professional development IPPE activities. Independent study.

Terms: Winter

This course is the first in a five-semester sequence on therapeutic problem solving, and emphasizes nonprescription therapies for the self-treating patient. Students learn a systematic approach to assessing, triaging and treating self-treatable conditions and about over-the-counter medications. Active learning strategies are employed.

Prerequisites: First year PharmD fall-term coursework

Terms: Winter

This course is the second in the pharmacy practice skills series. Topics covered include principles of compounding non-sterile and sterile products, reinforcement of pharmaceutical calculations, and principles of health system drug distribution including quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and drug diversion.

Prerequisites: Pharmacy 504

Terms: Winter

The purpose of this course is to understand and analyze the various components of the United States Health care system with attention to the role of cost, access, pharmaceuticals, and the health care organization, government and health care professionals. This knowledge allows pharmacists to effectively navigate the health system for themselves, their patients, and society.

Terms: Winter

Students will gain understanding of the comprehensive management of a person with a disability in a health care or public health setting. This will include learning to effectively communicate and partner with people with disabilities. This course will: address disability civil rights; provide a basic understanding of a variety of disability conditions; and provide options/resources available to assist the healthcare provider in providing care to people with disabilities.

Terms: Winter

This course is designed to introduce pharmacy students to the topic of personal finance.

Terms: Winter

Students in this course will work in facilitated small groups to apply pain management concepts, ranging from pain pathophysiology to medication selection, to clinical cases. Students are expected to develop clinical reasoning skills, both pertaining specifically to pain management and more broadly to patient care.

Prerequisites: Second and Third year PharmD students OR First year PharmD students who have completed Pharmacy 117

Terms: Winter

The experiences will vary depending on the specific faculty member's project but may include: conducting clinical or basic science research, performing an extensive review of the literature and preparing a summary report/manuscript, analyzing data that has previously been collected. Students may work on a single project or be exposed to several types of projects during the course. For specific details of the course, students should contact individual faculty.

Prerequisites: PharmD students. Permission of instructor.

Terms: Fall/Winter

This course offers foundational knowledge in nuclear medicine and nuclear pharmacy, covering ionizing radiation, radioactive decay, radiation safety and biology, detection equipment, radiopharmaceuticals, medical and nuclear imaging, and radiopharmaceutical manufacturing. Students will also learn about training requirements and career pathways in nuclear pharmacy practice.

Prerequisites: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students

Terms: Winter

Second in a five-part sequence which integrates the pathophysiology and therapeutics of diseases. The focus is on drug therapy and applied pharmacokinetics of common chronic and acute conditions, including hypertension and diabetes. The role of evidence based medicine in regard to therapeutic decisions is emphasized and builds upon basic biological, pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences. Developing pharmaceutical care plans that build skills on recommending therapy, evaluating and monitoring the efficacy and safety of medications for an individual patients is also emphasized.

Prerequisites: MedChem 510 and concurrent with MedChem 600 and PharmSci 608

Terms: Fall

This course is designed to enhance pharmacy skills learned earlier in the program through hands-on experience dispensing medications, drug therapy assessments, counseling patients about presription and nonprescription medications, communicating with other health care professionals, and completing special written projects or presentations. Eight hours per week of supervised experience in a community pharmacy.

Prerequisites: Second Year PharmD Students

Terms: Fall/Winter

This course teaches the principles of drug information and literature evaluation using the concepts of evidence based practice. Skills include identifying resources to answer clinical questions, developing search strategies, and critically evaluating scientific literature allowing students to identify and utilize the best evidence to make decisions regarding patient care.

Terms: Fall

Students will develop and improve their understanding of the role of pharmacists in veterinary medicine including opportunities for specialization. Veterinary therapeutics will be reviewed including cardiology, anesthesia, critical care, oncology, antimicrobials, parasitology-zoonosis, food animal medicine, and early drug (pre‚Äêclinical) development. Veterinary laws and regulations including compounding will be discussed.

Prerequisites: Second and third year PharmD students and graduate students

Terms: Fall

This course teaches the principles of drug information and literature evaluation using the concepts of evidence based practice. Skills include identifying resources to answer clinical questions, developing search strategies, and critically evaluating scientific literature allowing students to identify and utilize the best evidence to make decisions regarding patient care.

Terms: Winter