Core Courses and Emphasis Areas

Required courses:

• ECP 8100: Seminar (1 credit repeated, maximum 4 credits)
• ECP 8220: Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (3 credits)
• ECP 8992: Readings ( 1 credit repeated, maximum 8 credits)
• SACP Thesis Credit

Potential Areas of Emphasis (6 credits):

Experimental Pharmacotherapeutics Emphasis

• ECP 5610: Pharmacoepidemiology (3 credits)
• PubH 6320 Fundamentals of Epidemiology (3 credits)
• PubH 6451 Biostatistics II (4 credits)
• PubH 6806 Principles of Public Health Research (2 credits)
• PubH 7420 Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation and Analysis (3 credits)
• SAPH 8173 Principles and Methods of Research (3 credits)

Pharmacometrics Emphasis

• ECP 8400 Pharmacometrics (3 credits)
• ECP 8410 Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling (2 credits)
• ECP 8420 Clinical Trials Simulation (2 credits)

Drug Metabolism Emphasis

• ECP 5620 Drug Metabolism and Disposition (3 credits)
• BioC 5001 Biochemistry (5 credits)
• MedC 8600 Chemical Aspects of Metabolism and Bioactivism (2 credits)

Selected additional courses for emphasis areas and the Supporting Program are listed below:

• ECP 8210 Advanced Clinical Therapeutics (3 credits)
• ECP 8200 Research Problems (variable)
• ECP 8900 Advanced topics (variable)
• ECP 8993 Directed Studies (variable)
• PUBH 6420 Intro to SAS Programming (2 credits)
• PUBH 6450 Descriptive Statistics (3 credits)
• PubH 6451 Biostatistics II (4 credits)
• STAT 5302 Linear Regression (4 credits)
• STAT 5401 Applied Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)
• PHAR 6163 Pharmacokinetics (3 credits)
• PHM 8150 Pharmacokinetic Research Seminar ( 1 credit)
• PHM 8421 Advanced Pharmacokinetics (4 credits)
• BIOC 5527 Modern Structural Biology (4 credits)
• GCD 4151 Molecular Biology of Cancer (3 credits)
• PHCL 5100 Pharmacology: Drugs and Disease (3 credits)
• PHCL 5111 Pharmacogenomics (3 credits)

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