PHARM 7412      Community Pharmacy Practice Clerkship
The candidate will spend one month assigned to a faculty member whose practice is based in a community setting. Emphasis of study will be on the organizational, technical and administrative aspects of providing comprehensive pharmaceutical services to patients in a community practice. Clinical responsibilities will be maintained throughout the rotation. Candidates will take part in all aspects of pharmaceutical care within the practice (i.e., distribution, counseling, provision of drug information, operations management and practice development). Required rotation. Offered: Fall & Winter Restrictions: AU 52 Level C
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7414      Professional Skills III
Students will apply communication skills from prerequisite course work and develop new skills that allow them to provide pharmaceutical care to their patients. Emphasis of study includes: patient interviewing, profile review, counseling, ethical challenge in patient care, communication dilemmas and communicating with other health-care providers and patients with special needs. Additionally, students will be assessed on writing and presentation skills from a range of assignments. One 2 hour lecture and 1.5 hour small group discussion are held per week. Prerequisites: PHARM 101 and COMM-ST 110. Offered: Winter
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7418      Elective Clerkship I
Elective experiences are an essential element to the candidates' training designed to develop areas of personal interest and to expand their understanding of professional opportunities. These rotations revolve around areas of basic science, clinical practice, research and administration. Candidates may repeat required rotations as electives or may approach faculty to tailor an elective experience to develop an area of interest. Required rotation.Prerequisites: Successful completion of all coursework through semester 8Offered: Fall/WinterRestrictions: AU 52, Level C
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7419      General Medicine IV
Continuation of General Medicine series. Required rotation.Prerequisites: Successful completion of all coursework through semester 8
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7420      Health Assessment & Pharmacotherapy II
This course is designed to foster the student's ability to provide pharmaceutical care. Patient assessment is an integral part of the pharmaceutical care process. Students are expected to continue developing and applying problem-solving strategies to complex disease states commonly encountered in pharmacy practice. UP to seven hours of lecture and two hours of small group discussion can occur per week. Evaluation of skills necessary to assess patients will occur throughout the semester. Students are also expected to complete four examinations during the course. Prerequisite: PHARM 303,PHARM 405, PHARM 362 and NURSE 548. Concurrent enrollment in PHARM 406P required. Offered: Fall
Credits: 7 hours
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PHARM 7421      Elective Cerkship lll
Elective experiences are an essential element to the candidates training designed to develop areas of personal interest and to expand their understanding of professional opportunities. These rotations revolve around areas of basic science, clinical practice, research and administration. Candidates may repeat required rotations as electives or may approach faculty to tailor an elective experience to develop an area of interest. Optional rotation.
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7424      Introduction To Dietary Supplement Therapeutics
The Pharmacy 7424 course is intended to provide students with an awareness of important issues about dietary supplements to consider when providing pharmaceutical care to patients. Students will become familiar with regulations for dietary supplements, learn communication skills specific to discussing supplement use with patients, and the skills to retrieve and interpret reliable information to be able to make decisions about new of unfamiliar supplements. Prerequisites: All Pharm.D. coursework completed through 4th semester.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7427      Hospital Pharmacy
The purpose of the course is to provide an introductory overview of health-system pharmacy. Topics covered include pharmacy distribution systems and operations, automation, regulatory issues, as well as the ways in which clinical services are provided in hospitals. The role of pharmacists and effective drug use policy in the acute care setting will be explored in depth.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7428      Veterinary Pharmacology
Pharmaceutical preparations used in veterinary medicine. Elective.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7434      Professional Skills V: Pharmacy Preparations and Practice
The professional skills V course provides instruction and practice in professional skills of pharmacy including basic non-sterile extemporaneous compounding, basic aseptic technique for sterile compounding of parenteral admixtures, dispensing of prescriptions, and patient counseling for select over-the-counter and prescription products and devices. Students will be utilizing pharmaceutical calculations in the preparation and dispensing if the formulations.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7439      Pediatric Pharmacotherapy
Pediatric Pharmacotherapy provides disease-oriented and pharmacy-oriented insight into the pathosphysicology, diagnosis, and rational drug treatment of diseases primarily encountered in the pediatric population. The pharmacist's role in selecting drug products, individualizing dosages, and monitoring patients is emphasized. Two hours lecture and 1 hour case discussion per week. Prerequisites: Pharmacy 7361, 7362, and 7405. Offered: Fall semester.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7449      Clinical Economics & Medical Decision-Making
This three-hour course is a critical review and evaluation of the economic analysis of medical decision-making. An emphasis will be placed on the critical evaluation of recent literature assessing medical decision-making through the use of such tools as cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-minimization, markov modeling, bayesian statistics. Prerequisite: Third Yr or Graduate Restrictions: Au 52 or AU 68 91 Level A & B only or instructor consent Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7451      Pharmacy Law
Federal and state laws impacting pharmacy practice. Prerequisite: Completion of all required courses through Sem 6.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7463      Toxicology
Fundamentals of toxicology, including discussion of the general classes of poisonous substances, their physiological effects, and methods of treatment. Prerequisite: PHARM 361 Offered: Winter Restrictions: AU 51 & AU 52 Level A
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7465      Health Economics and Medicine
This course introduces major economic dimensions on the health care system, Course covers concepts necessary to understand provider behavior and health care market structure. Basic concepts of health insurance, managed care techniques, pharmacoepidemiological methods are covered in this course. this course prepares students to utilize pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research techniques to improve overall value of patient care. Prerequisite: Pharm 7233 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7466      Pharmacy Practice Management
Pharmacy Practice Management is a required course for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, The goal of the course is to build the necessary foundation for basic management skills needed as a professional in pharmacy regardless of practice setting. Management activities include management of self, operations, people, finances, goods, and services. This course does not aim to produce management experts in any one particular facet of pharmacy, but rather to equip students with the fundamental concepts to apply management and economic principals in a variety of situations or settings.Prerequisites: Economics of Health and Medicine
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7467      Religion, Culture And Health
This course addresses the impact of religious beliefs, education, and cultural practices on health and healthcare issues pertinent to various segments of our society. Restrictions: Instructor consent required. Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7484      Pharmacy Seminar
Pharm. D. Student Seminar course is designed to provide students with examples and reasoning behind the fundamentals of seminar preparation and delivery and opportunity to utilize their knowledge by presenting a seminar. This experience will be achieved through identification of a topic, development and presentation of a seminar. The student is expected to complete two 40-minute seminars over 2 semesters. Credit/no credit. This is an elective option. Prerequisite(s): PHARM 485P. Offered: Fall/Winter.
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7485      Health Assessment & Pharmacotherapy III
This course is designed to foster the student's ability to provide pharmaceutical care. Patient assessment is an integral part of the pharmaceutical care process. Students are expected to continue develping and applying problem-solving strategies to complex disease states commonly encounteded in pharmacy practice. Up to seven hours of lecture and two hours of small group discussion can occur per week. Evaluation of skills necessary to assess patients will occur throughout the semester. Students are also expected to complete four examinations during the course. Prerequisite: PHARM 420. Concurrent enrollment in PHARM 326 and PHARM 406P required. Offered: Winter
Credits: hours
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PHARM 7489      Special Topics In Pharmacy
Credits: hours
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