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Social/Administrative Pharmacy (SAPH) Courses

Academic Unit: Pharmaceutical Care & Health

SAPH 5100 - Pro-Seminar (interactive TV)
(1 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
History, foundational frameworks, and key research domains for social and administrative pharmacy through examining landmark literature. Students think critically, reflect on important works, and create a cognitive map of the discipline and their own focus for study.
SAPH 5610 - Pharmacoepidemiology
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: was ECP 5610 until 19-JAN-10
Application of epidemiologic principles to study/use. Beneficial/adverse outcomes of drugs in human populations.
SAPH 8054 - Advanced Studies in Pharmaceutical Care Practice
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
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
(1 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 8 times)
Contemporary issues and research problems in sociobehavioral pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics and policy, and clinical research.
SAPH 8173 - Principles and Methods of Implementing Research
(3 cr; Prereq-Two grad stat courses; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was NURS 8173 until 06-SEP-05, NURS 8173
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
(1 cr [max 8]; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 16 credits; may be repeated 16 times)
Individually designed research experience directed at contemporary problems related to drug use process.
SAPH 8235 - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
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
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SACP major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
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
(2 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
N/A
SAPH 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
SAPH 8420 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
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 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
SAPH 8500 - Pharmacy and Its Environment
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
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 8610 - Pharmacoepidemiology
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the uses and effects of drugs in patient populations. The science of pharmacoepidemiology borrows from pharmacology and epidemiology. This course will introduce students to the field of pharmacoepidemiology including study methodology, relevant statistics, data sources, measurement of treatments and outcomes, sources of bias and control of confounding, techniques to reduce bias and confounding, survival analysis and regression techniques, interpretation of results, and drug safety surveillance and risk management.
SAPH 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Doctoral pre-thesis credits.
SAPH 8700 - Hospital Pharmacy Administration
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
History, classification, organization, and functions of hospital departments in relation to the pharmacy service.
SAPH 8702 - Hospital Pharmacy Survey
(1 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Readings for self-directed students to explore contemporary issues in hospital pharmacy practices.
SAPH 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)
SAPH 8810 - Social Psychology of Health Care
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad SAPh major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
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
(3 cr; Prereq-Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data.
SAPH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)

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