Courses Taught

PHCY 434

PHARMACY OPERATIONS: PLANNING, DEVELOPING, AND EVALUATING PHARMACY CARE SERVICE

This course is designed to equip students with the skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate pharmaceutical services.  Topics covered in this course focus on the non-clinical aspects of pharmacy services.  These include policy and public health issues, economic and financial considerations, and principles relative to business management and evaluation.

By the end of the course, students should be able to develop a pharmaceutical care service program for a specific community or practice area, propose a business plan, design a marketing strategy, and develop qualitative evaluation criteria.  Additionally, students should have a general understanding of important issues and controversies relevant to the delivery of pharmacy services.

The course is taught to approximately 130 students in their third year of the doctor of pharmacy curriculum.  The course meets 3 days per week and includes a variety of guest speakers and interactive learning sessions.

DPOP 806

PHARMACEUTICAL POLICY

The course examines policies that influence pharmacy.  Structured methods of policy analysis are examined and used to assess theoretic and analytic applications for evaluating pharmaceutical policy.

By the end of the course students should develop an understanding of pharmaceutical policy and structured methods for forecasting, evaluating, monitoring, and recommending pharmaceutical policy.  Topics include historical events that shape existing policy, models of price and expenditure control, systems to ensure quality and access, methods for evaluating or initiating change, and other methods of policy analysis.

The course is offered to graduate students in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy; Doctor of Pharmacy students may take the course for elective credit.  The course meets 2 hours per week and includes independent reading, student projects and presentations, and in-class exercises.