Course Descriptions

SACP 8333

FTE: Master's (1 credits). Directed research.

SACP 8444

FTE: Doctoral (1 credits). Directed research.

SACP 8666

Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits (1-18 credits).

SACP 8777

Thesis Credits: Master's (1-18 credits).

SACP 8888

Thesis Credits: Doctoral (1-24 credits).

SAPH 8054

Advanced Studies in Pharmaceutical Care Practice. Analyzing practice/implementation of pharmaceutical care. Students confront their assumptions about pharmacy profession, pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical care. Discussions, guest speakers, intensive literature searches/evaluation.

SAPH 8100

Seminar. Contemporary issues and research problems in sociobehavioral pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics and policy, and clinical research.

SAPH 8173

Principles and Methods of Implementing Research. Integrates scientific, statistical and practical aspects of research. Interrelationships among design, sample selections, subject access, human subjects requirements, instrument selection and evaluation, data management, analyses plans, grant writing and research career issues. Field experiences.

SAPH 8200

Research Problems. Individually designed research experience directed at contemporary problems related to drug use process.

SAPH 8235

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy. Economic analysis of pharmaceutical sector of health care systems. Problems of pricing production and distribution of pharmaceuticals. Domestic or international policy issues relevant to price and access of pharmaceuticals.

SAPH 8255

Pharmaceutical Marketing. Historical development of distributive systems, marketing channels, institutions, policies and practices as they relate to pharmaceutical industry. Contemporary issues/theory related to pharmaceutical marketing. Pharmaceutical proportion, especially directed to consumer advertising.

SAPH 8270

Clinical Conferences.

SAPH 8420

Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice. Historical development of the profession, its growth and development, emphasizing forces of education, professionalization, attitude modification and changes occurring as a product of legal and organizational forces in society.

SAPH 8500

Pharmacy and Its Environment. Cultural foundations of pharmacy. Development of present state of pharmacy practice. Role of pharmacist as health practitioner in relation to other health practitioners. Identification of factors (health policy, regulation, economics, research and development, promotion) that affect individual responses to drug therapy.

SAPH 8700

Hospital Pharmacy Administration. History, classification, organization and functions of hospital departments in relation to the pharmacy service.

SAPH 8810

Social Psychology of Health Care. Behavioral and social aspects of recovery responses to drugs and other therapies, patients' compliance with prescribed therapies, relationships between healthcare professional and patient.

SAPH 8840

Social Measurement. How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data.

ECP 5610

Pharmacoepidemiology. Application of epidemiological principles to study the use of and outcomes (beneficial and adverse) of drugs in human populations.

EPSY 8261

Statistical Methods I: Probability and Inference. Advanced theory, derivations of quantitative statistics. Descriptive statistics, probability, normal distribution. One-/two-sample hypothesis tests, confidence intervals. Chi square tests. One-way analysis of variance, follow up tests.

EPSY 8262

Statistical Methods II: Regression and the General Linear Model. Analysis of variance designs (two-/three-way), repeated measures, correlation, simple/multiple regression methods, non-parametric procedures, multivariate analyses.

PUBH 5450

Biostatistics I. Descriptive statistics. Gaussian probability models, point/interval estimation for means/proportions. Hypothesis testing, including t, chi-square and nonparametric tests. Simple regression/correlation. ANOVA. Health science applications using output from statistical packages.

PUBH 5452

Biostatistics II. Two-way ANOVA, interactions, repeated measures, general linear models. Logistic regression for cohort and case-control studies. Loglinear models, contingency tables, Poisson regression, survival data, Kaplan-Meier methods, proportional hazards models.

PUBH 5806

Principles of Public Health Research. Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis.

STAT 5021

Statistical Analysis. Intensive introduction to statistical methods for graduate students needing statistics as a research technique.

STAT 5302

Applied Regression Analysis. Simple, multiple and polynomial regression. Estimation, testing, prediction. Use of graphics in regression. Stepwise and other numerical methods. Weighted least squares, nonlinear models, response surfaces. Experimental research/applications.