This search tool is designed to help you identify professional electives that may align with your interests. You can search by any/all of the fields provided. This tool is not intended as an exhaustive list of all possible professional electives; rather, it includes electives offered through the college of pharmacy, professional electives approved by the Curriculum and Assessment Committee, and electives that have been taken by students at some of the other schools on campus. Term offered is only provided for College of Pharmacy courses; a link to the appropriate course guide is provided for all other courses.

As a reminder, graduate courses (>500 level) that are relevant to biomedical, human health, and/or the practice of pharmacy which are offered through the U-M health-science schools (Pharmacy, Nursing, Social Work, Public Health, Medicine, and Dentistry) qualify as professional electives provided they are not attendance-only courses. Attendance-only courses offered through the health-science schools (e.g., seminars or journal clubs that do not require a rigorous form of student assessment) are not accepted for professional elective credit. Courses offered through U-M non-health-science schools must be reviewed and approved by the Curriculum and Assessment Committee.

Sociology 475
Health, Medicine, and Society (Credits: 3-4)

This course examines the influence of social and cultural factors on health, illness, and medical care.

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.
Statistics 500
Statistical Learning I: Regression (Credits: 3)

The course covers concepts and methods for regression analysis and applications. Topics include estimation, inference, interpretation of results, diagnostics, lack of fit, robust procedures, weighting and transformations, and model selection. The response variable could be continuous, binary or counts. More advanced techniques (splines, principal components analysis, and shrinkage estimators including ridge regression and Lasso) will also be covered. While there will be some theory, the emphasis will be on applications and data analysis.

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.
Strategy 562
Innovation in Global Health (Credits: 1.5)

New business models built around operational efficiency offer tremendous potential to improve people's health worldwide. This course will examine how innovations in business models, operations, financing and supply chains are allowing far more people to access better quality healthcare. The course draws extensively on real-world case studies and latest research in this field. Class sessions will feature thought leaders from the field of global health delivery and involve lively debates on important topics. Concepts and approaches from strategy, operations, finance, and supply chain management will be used to understand what determines success and failure of businesses that seek to provide healthcare to low income populations. While there will be a strong emphasis on global health, some of the concepts will be applicable more generally to product and service delivery in emerging markets.
This course is divided into two modules: The first part of the course will focus on design of systems that ensure access to medicines, vaccines and other health technologies. The second part of the course will focus on design of systems for health service delivery.

Specific learning objectives for this course are:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the key issues in designing and managing healthcare delivery (products and services) in emerging markets.

- Understand the important role of operations and supply chain management in improving effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery in emerging markets.

- Ability to formulate strategies for market entry in the healthcare/life sciences sector in emerging markets.

- Understand the role of product and process innovation in global health delivery (through practical examples and cases).

- Understand factors that influence the adoption of new health technologies in emerging markets and operational strategies to speed up adoption.

- Understand the roles played by different agencies in the provision of healthcare in emerging markets and understand the critical value of inter-agency coordination in this context.

- Discover and understand high impact opportunities for social entrepreneurship and operational innovation to improve global health delivery.  

Cross-listed with Tech/Operations (TO) 563.

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.
Technology & Operations 616
Project Management (Credits: 1.5)

This course focuses on strategies and tools useful in management of non-repetitive business activities.  Examples of such activities include construction, new product development and market introduction, consulting engagements, and organization restructurings.  Tools to be introduced include work breakdown structure, network representation, PERT/CPM models and analysis, Gantt charts, time and cost models, PM software, and probabilistic analysis.  Strategy considerations covered will include dealing with uncertainty, resource constraints, dealing with shared and requested vs. dedicated and commanded resources, and milestone management.

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.
Technology and Operations 411
Decision Support with Excel (Credits: 3)

Spreadsheets are among the most widely used decision support tools in business today, and have advanced to the point of providing powerful, general-purpose functionally.  The first half of the course introduces decision support modeling using spreadsheets, including:  what-if analysis; financial, statistical, and time/date functions; graphical presentation of data; organizing and extracting information from spreadsheet databases; and cross-tabulation of data.  The second half of the course includes importing information into spreadsheets from external sources; goal seeking; one and two way data tables; the use of a solver to find optimal solutions to problems; designing macros to develop semi-automated and fully automated spreadsheet applications; and probabilistic modeling to support risk analysis in the context of spreadsheets.  Lecture/demonstrations illustrate the features of spreadsheet software.  Lab work involves carrying out hands-on tutorials in a supervised setting, then reinforcing and extending conceptual and operational aspects of the material by doing follow-up cases.  Windows-based spread-sheeting software (such as Excel for Windows) is typically studied in the course.

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.
Technology and Operations 563
Innovation in Global Health Delivery: Strategies for Enhancing Growth and Improving Access in Emerging Markets (Credits: 1.5)

New business models built around operational efficiency offer tremendous potential to improve people's health worldwide. This course will examine how innovations in business models, operations, financing and supply chains are allowing far more people to access better quality healthcare. The course draws extensively on real-world case studies and latest research in this field. Class sessions will feature thought leaders from the field of global health delivery and involve lively debates on important topics. Concepts and approaches from strategy, operations, finance, and supply chain management will be used to understand what determines success and failure of businesses that seek to provide healthcare to low income populations. While there will be a strong emphasis on global health, some of the concepts will be applicable more generally to product and service delivery in emerging markets.

This course is divided into two modules: The first part of the course will focus on design of systems that ensure access to medicines, vaccines and other health technologies. The second part of the course will focus on design of systems for health service delivery.

Specific learning objectives for this course are:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the key issues in designing and managing healthcare delivery (products and services) in emerging markets.

- Understand the important role of operations and supply chain management in improving effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery in emerging markets.

- Ability to formulate strategies for market entry in the healthcare/life sciences sector in emerging markets.

- Understand the role of product and process innovation in global health delivery (through practical examples and cases).

- Understand factors that influence the adoption of new health technologies in emerging markets and operational strategies to speed up adoption.

- Understand the roles played by different agencies in the provision of healthcare in emerging markets and understand the critical value of inter-agency coordination in this context.

- Discover and understand high impact opportunities for social entrepreneurship and operational innovation to improve global health delivery.

Cross-listed with Strategy (STRAT) 562

Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.

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