PHARM 7100      Introductory Topics In Pharmacy I
This course in one in a four semester series of courses that includes presentations and discussions on the profession of pharmacy including: the role and responsibilities of the pharmacist, educational requirements to obtain the degree, career opportunities, student life, legal and ethical issues, current issues in healthcare effecting pharmacy practice, and study skills development. Course meets for 2 hours four times a semester. Credit/nocredit. Prerequisite: You must be admitted to the School of Pharmacy and be a Provisional Pharmacy Major to take this course.
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7101      Professional Skills I: The Profession of Pharmacy
This course introduces students to the profession of pharmacy and professional responsibilities and roles of a pharmacist. Students will complete and present a group project solving a community-based health issue as part of this course. This is the first of three courses with an integrated curriculum focused on professional skills development. Prerequisites: Admission to the Pharm. D program. Restrictions: AU 52 Offered: Fall Two 1-hour class sessions are held per week.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7110      Professional Skills II: Pharmacy Calculations
This course provides instruction in performing the necessary calculations involved in the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing, manufacturing and preparation of dosage forms. Topics covered include but are not limited to: fundamentals of pharmaceutical calculations (numbers,numerals,exponents,ratios,percentages,proportions and fractions); International System of Units; pharmaceutical measurements; interpretations of medication orders and prescriptions; density,specific gravity and specific volume;patient specific parameters involved in dosing(surface area,weight and age); isotonicity and buffer solutions; milliequivalents,millimoles and milliosmoles;dilution,concentration and alligation;and,reducing and enlarging formulas. The ability to apply principles and formulas to solve pharmaceutically relevant problems related to the above listed topics is an outcome for this course. Students must have an understanding of mathematical principles to include algebra and calculus. Prerequisite:MATH 210 Offered:Winter Semester. Restrictions: AU 51&52
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7125      Medical Terminology
This course will provide the necessary information towards proficiency in reading and understanding the meaning of common medical terminology. This ability will provide a foundation for student lerning in courses that rely on medical terminology to explain physiologic and clinical processes. Prerequisite: Admission to the Pharm D program. Offered: Fall Restrictions: AU 52
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7151      Introduction To Pharmacy Law
This course will provide an introduction to the federal and state laws that pertain to the practice of pharmacy. One hour of lecture per week. Offered: Fall Restrictions: AU 52
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7202      Pharmaceutics I
Physicochemical properties of drug systems with consideration of incompatibilities and stabilization of pharmaceutical dosage forms, and physicochemical properties affecting drug action, degradation and bio availability. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: PHARM 110 & PHARM104 Offered: Fall Restrictions: AU 51 & 52 (Second Year Professional Standing)
Credits: 4 hours
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PHARM 7203      Pharmaceutics II
Discussion of pharmaceutical processes, equipment and material used in drug delivery systems and the preparation and evaluation of solid delivery systems and parenteral products. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: PHARM 202. Restrictions: AU 51 & 52 (Second Year Professional Standing)
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7233      U.S. Health Care System and Marketing
U.S. Health Care System and Marketing is a required course for the doctor of Pharmacy degree program at The University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Pharmacy. It consists of two modules: U.S. Health Care System and Medication Safety (Module I) , and Health Care Marketing (Module 2). The goals of the course are to (1) understand U.S. health care system at the macro level, (2) discuss medication errors and management within U.S. health care system, and (3) learn about marketing process for healthcare products and services. This course provides the context and builds the knowledge base for future required courses such as Pharmacy Practice Management.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7245      Top 200 I
This course requires the student to commit basic information about the Top 200 most prescribed drugs to memory. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Pharm D courses through semester 4. Offered: Fall and Winter Restrictions: AU 52 Level A
Credits: 0.5 hours
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PHARM 7266      Medical & Medication Error Evaluation & Management
A course designed to discuss the current body of evidence with respect to medical quality, medication errors, and strategies used to improve quality & minimize error rates. At the completion of the course, the student should be able to (1) review and synthesize evidence within the literature; (2) describe te policy framework designed to improve health care quality; (3) describe characteristics and factors that enable & encourage providers to improve the quality of care; (4) describe common causes of medication errors; (5) differentiate strategies to prevent errors; (6) correlate medication errors and specific disease states. Prerequisite: None Offered: Winter Restricitions: AU 52 Level B
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7275      The Pharmacists' Role in Global Health
Objectives for this course include; describe key public health concepts related to global health, including: demographic and epidemiological transitions, measures of health status, and the burden of disease; describe how globalization has changed the patterns of the spread of disease and the methods needed to control disease; discuss the multi-directional links between health and social and economic factors; discuss how social and cultural factors can affect a society's vulnerability to morbidity and mortality and its approaches to prevention and control; identify health conditions that have a major impact on morbidity and mortality and key biological concepts needed to understand their public health importance; identify critical issues in the organization and delivery of public health and health care services and methods to address these issues; discuss the determinants of health and risk factors for conditions of major importance to global health; discuss the burden of disease in various regions of the world and the variations in incidence and prevalence both within and across countries; discuss the potential for science and technology to contribute to improvement in health; identify key organizations and institutions, their roles in global health, and the manner in which they can cooperate to address key global health issues; apply principles of cost-effectiveness, benefits and harms, and sustainability of a new intervention designed to improve global health; and apply understandings of the impact of culture on health to address issues of cultural diversity. Prerequisite: Professional Skills Development I. Restrictions: Pharm. D. Student any level. Offered: Spring
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7277      Zoonotic Illnesses
This course is designed to increase student knowledge and interest in infectious diseases by presenting various zoonotic illnesses. It will include background information on the clinical ""workup"" of an infectious disease, an introduction to antibiotics, monitoring of the infectious process, the evolution of the disease, and reporting of infectious diseases to the local health department.; It will also expose students to particular disease states that they may see in rural Missouri (Le. tick bites, diseases from farm animals, etc). It is offered to Pharm.D. students Prerequisite: Microbiology
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7303      Pharmacokinetics And Biopharmaceutics
Study of pharmacokinetic models and equations; the concepts of the rate processes associated with, and the physical and physiological factors affecting absorption, distribution, and elimination of dosage forms. The concepts of bioavailability will be presented so as to prepare the student to evaluate bioavailability data. Three hours lecture and one two-hour discussion period per week. Winter. Restrictions: AU 51 & 52 Level A
Credits: 4 hours
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PHARM 7307      Advanced Pathophysiology
Advanced pathophysiology is the study of the alterations of normal physiological functioning in cellular, tissue, organ, and organ systems. These alterations form the basis for understanding a variety of pathophysiological conditions and the manifestations and impact of abnormal physiological functioning on patients across the life span. Advanced pathophysiology deals with both generalized disease processes and major organ system dysfunction. Students will have the opportunity to identify clinical signs and symptoms for various disease states, associate those symptoms with pathophysiological changes, and discuss potential pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options. Prerequisites: LSAnat 119/119L, LSBioch 366, LSPhys 400. Co-requisite Pharmacy 7361 Semester Offered: Fall
Credits: 4 hours
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PHARM 7310      Academic Service Learning I
Academic Service Learning is a professional elective course where students are assigned to either Jackson County Free Health Clinic in Kansas City or the MedZou program in Columbia. A minimum of 30 contact hours must be completed during the assigned semester. Health education will be the primary focus. Prerequisites: Successful completion of Pharm.D. courses through Semester 2 and completion of required documentation. Semester Offered: Fall and Spring.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7311      Pharmacy in the 21st Century Technology
This course allows students to develop the skills to evaluate and use Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) in contemporary pharmacy practice. The elective course is offered in the winter semester only. Prerequisite: Currently enrolled in the Doctor of Pharmacy program in year 3 or higher. Preference given to 4th year students
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7313      Career Planning
This course enables students to engage in the study of career opportunities in the areas of industry, hospital/clinic practice, retail and managed care settings. Pharmacy opportunities are explored through lecture and discussion, guest speakers in the various areas and student exploration with business contacts and research. Topics include understanding career opportunities, achieving one's professional goas, compensation packages and negotiations, and designing a path to accomplish career objectives. Offered: Fall Restrictions: AU 52 Level A&B
Credits: 1 hours
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PHARM 7325      Professional Skills IV: Professional and Patient Communication
The goal of Pharmacy 7325 is to develop verbal and written professional communication skills. Pharmacy 7325 lays the groundwork for skills students will use later in the curriculum and when they enter practice. Students will learn business, technical and patient-oriented writing skills and how to design and deliver a formal presentation. The class is a mix of didactic instruction and individual and small group activities.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7326      Evidence Based Medicine
Pharmacists, if they are to assume the role of ""medication expert"" must have the ability to evaluate the medical literature and use the results of this evaluation to make evidence-based patient care decisions. To do this, pharmacists will need to assimilate existing information, create and assimilate information or create new information. The disciplined approach that evidence-based practice requires will assure the highest quality of problem solving and decision making possible by the pharmacist for patients, consumers and other healthcare providers. This course provides students with tools to evaluate the literature in a critical manner. The student will learn how to integrate information from multiple sources to make more complex healthcare-related decisions. A key aspect of the course is to provide confidence and ability in assimilating existing information into recommendations/decisions. Less emphasis will be placed on the creating of new information. Throughout the course, the student will observe and participate in applying these tools for evidence-based practice to real pharmacy issues in order to make individual patient care and population-based decisions. Prerequisite: PHARM 7420 and PHARM 7325 Co-requisite: PHARM 7485P
Credits: 5 hours
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PHARM 7334      Pharmacy Based Immunization Delivery
Pharmacy-based Immunization Delivery is an interactive training program that teaches pharmacists and student pharmacists the skills necessary to become a primary source for vaccine information and administration. The program teaches the basics of immunology and focuses on practice implementation, administration and legal/regulatory issues. Prerequisites: Pharm.D. courses completed through 5th semester.
Credits: 2 hours
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