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 7316      Introduction to Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis
This course addresses multiple key influential pharmaceutical policy areas shaping pharmacy practice, and will teach critical thinking skills required to measure both federal and state level policy impact in patient safety and access to medications. It is limited to students enrolled in the School of Pharmacy and is offered in winter semesters only. Prerequisites; Pharmacy 7151, 7233, 7465, and 7325.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7317      Drug Induced Diseases
Drug-induced disease is an unintended effect if a drug that results in mortality or morbidity with symptoms sufficient to prompt a patient to seek medical attention and/or require hospitalization. This course will aid students in the identification, management, and prevention of drug-induced diseases.Prerequisites: Students must have successfully completed Pharmacology I and Advanced Pathophysiology.
Credits: 2 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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PHARM 7341      Medicinal Chemistry I
This course is the study of medicinally active substances, both natural and synthetic, which describes their chemical properties, their mode of action, their structure-activity relationships and their metabolic rate. Starting with their origin, it is shown how drugs in a series are developed by chemical modification, quantitative structure activity relationships and receptor theory. The chemical properties of a drug are described and explained. The mode of action of the drug is explained on a biochemical basis whenever possible. Once a drug has had its medicinal effect, it is excreted or metabolized. Reasons for excretion or metabolism are explained. Three hours lecture per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 322R. Corequisite LS-BIOC 365G. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7344      Medicinal Chemistry II
This course is a continuation of PHARM 341. It will focus on classifying drugs based on chemical and/or pharmacological properties. The pharmacophore concept and structure-activity relationships will be emphasized. We will also examine the influence of organic functional groups on physicochemical properties of drugs and eventually their pharmacological activities. Syntheses and metabolism of drugs will also be discussed. The metabolism will focus on organic functional group transformations. Three hours lecture per week. Prerequisite(s): PHARM 341 & LS-BIOC 365G. Corequisite: LS-BIOC 366G. Offered: Winter.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7345      Top 200 II
Same as Top 200 I, however additional information must be committed to memory building on what was learned in the prerequisite course. Prerequisite: Successful Completion of Top 200 I Offered: Fall and Winter Restrictions: AU 52 Level B
Credits: 0.5 hours
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PHARM 7353      Investigative Toxicology
The science of investigative toxicology is an emerging science that plays a central role in forensic toxicology and pathology regarding conditions of and for exposure of many different kinds of environmental, biological, chemical, or physical agents. Investigative toxicology may include criminal or civil legal matters. The duties of an investigative toxicologist include the qualitative and quantitative analysis of drugs or poisons in biological systems and other physical evidence collected at the scene of the investigation. This also includes the interpretation of the exposure scene evidence and findings in regard to the physiologic and behavioral effect of those exposed to the detected/suspected chemical(s) at time of exposure. The complete investigation of the cause or causes of sudden or chronic chemical exposure and its potential aftermath is an important civic responsibility. The use of toxicologic information in investigation assessment requires careful field and laboratory analysis, evaluation of data, and scientific judgment. Knowledge in the toxicological field is important to domestic settings, community, law enforcement and workplace atmosphere aiming at providing reasonable theories and conclusions regarding intentional or the non-intentional exposure of poisonous agents that concern human health. Investigation toxicology of a poison exposure can be divided into four measures: 1) obtaining the case history and scene investigation of poisonous contamination, 2) collection of data and/or evidence, 3) methods and procedures designed for toxicological analyses of physical evidence, 4) interpretation of the toxic experience landscape. Establishing the mechanism of exposure rests with the investigative toxicologists, but success in arriving at the correct conclusion may also include the combined efforts of the forensic toxicologist and pathologist. Health care professionals and public safety providers have the responsibility to investigate, inform and educate the public on the human health concern of poison exposures and the importance in avoiding contact with toxic chemicals and potential poisonous situations. Prerequisite: Pharmacology I. Restrictions: B.S. Pharm Sci>Pharmacol/Pharm Sci Grad>PharmD - (P1)
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7361      Pharmacology I
Study of the pharmacology of medicinals with emphasis on basic principles, the autonomic nervous system and drugs affecting the cardiovascular and renal systems. Four hours lecture per week. Prerequisites: LS-PHYS 400 and LS-BIOC 366
Credits: 4 hours
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PHARM 7362      Pharmacology II
Students will study principles of chemotherapy, pharmacology of drug action, drug-mediated toxicity, drugs effecting different organs/systems, and the effect of drugs n clinical condition. Prerequisites: Pharm 7361 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 5 hours
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PHARM 7366      Oncology and Hematology Pharmacotherapy
Oncology and Hematology Pharmacotherapy provides disease-oriented and pharmacy-oriented insight into the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and rational drug treatment of malignancy. The pharmacist's role in selecting drug products, individualizing dosages, supportive care, and monitoring patients is emphasized, with additional emphasis on safety and handling. Prerequisites: Pharmacology I & Pharmacotherapy II. Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 hours
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PHARM 7377      Principles Of Nutrition Support
This course will introduce the student to the fundamentals of nutrition support and prepare him/her for future involvement in this important practice area. It teaches practical skills, including assessment of the patient's nutritional status, estimation of calorie and protein requirements and how to recommend an appropriate formulation to meet these requirements. The student will learn indications for parenteral and enteral nutrition and how to select the most appropriate feeding. The student is taught how parenteral and enteral nutrition is safely administered, will learn the major complications, as well as methods to prevent or treat these problems. Topics covered include venous access, care of venous access devises, central vs. peripheral parenteral nutrition, fluid and electrolyte management, admixture compatibility and stability, and management of the nutrition support patient in various disease states. Restrictions: AU 52 Level A & B
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7378      Introduction to Community Pharmacy Practice
Students will provide patient-centered care in a community pharmacy practice setting. This experience will emphasize application of knowledge gained in didactic course work at the student's level in the curriculum. Activities focus on the delivery of patient care rather than relying on a product-centered model of practice.Prerequisite: Pharm.D. credit and non-credit requirements completed through semester six. Required documentation as noted on the Pharmacy Experiential Programs website. Offered: Summer
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7379      Introduction to Health Systems Pharmacy Practice
Students will spend two weeks during the summer providing patient-centered care in a health systems pharmacy practice setting. The experience will emphasize application of knowledge gained in didactic coursework at the student's level in the curriculum. Activities focus on understanding the medication use system and delivering care to patients in a hospital setting. The Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences seek to establish a solid practice foundation on which students will continually build as they progress through the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum.Prerequisites: Successful completion of Pharm.D. didactic coursework through semester 6 and submission of required Experiential Programs documentation on file.Offered: Summer
Credits: 2 hours
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PHARM 7389      Advances In Drug Therapy
Study of the advances in drug delivery and therapy; the concepts of advanced and novel drug delivery systems, modern drug analysis tools, role of efflux protein in drug kinetics, and transporter/receptor mediated drug delivery. Prerequisites: PHARM 303 Co-Requisite: PHARM 420 Restrictions: AU 52 Level B Offered: Fall
Credits: 2 hours
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