This course will provide an overview of patient safety but from a psychological perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the dynamics of human behavior at all levels of analysis that impact safety in pharmacy and health care generally.

This course will examine risk management within the health care setting. It is designed for individuals with little or no previous knowledge of risk management processes.

This course is designed to explore and understand the role of the patient in the maintenance of their health.

This course challenges students to think about the development of public policy positions and the articulation of organizational policy positions.

This course emphasizes the role of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of state and federal government in the establishment of standards for pharmacy practice and drug distribution.

This course is designed to provide an understanding of the regulation of drug products by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The Federal Controlled Substances Act, regulations promulgated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, and judicial interpretations of controversies in this area.

This course teaches students the fundamental components and practical considerations for managed prescription drug benefit programs across commercial, Medicaid, Medicare, and exchange books of business.

The purpose of this course is to introduce basic concepts in bioethics and provide an opportunity for discussing important ethical issues and controversies in modern healthcare, especially those that relate to the use of pharmaceuticals

This course is designed to provide an understanding of state licensure and standards setting for health care professions and practice sites.

The spring 2021 seminar will explore generic drugs quality.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an introduction to Medicare and Medicaid. Areas covered include costs and financing of the programs, eligibility, program administration, and benefits. Relationships between state and federal agencies will be explored.

This course focuses on the activities of federal government agencies (e.g., Food and Drug Administration; Drug Enforcement Administration; Social Security Administration; Federal Trade Commission; Occupational Safety and Health Administration).

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental methods of pharmacoeconomic analysis. The class will focus on the theory, methods, and application of technology assessment in health care.

The purpose of this course is to analyze health care markets by using microeconomic tools. The course will explore the special features and complexities of health care markets and will focus on the analysis of consumption, production, and distribution of health and health care services with an emphasis on pharmaceutical products and services.

This course delves into the economic principles and issues of health care in the US. It provides a perspective of the influencing forces, reimbursement models, market development and health care finance applied to various work settings.

Through this course, students will learn the fundamentals of the United States laws and regulations pertaining to pharmaceutical fraud, waste, and abuse.

The overall goal of the course is to familiarize students with methods and tools to evaluate and select patient-centered pharmacy services, drugs and other medical technologies.

This course will explore the methodologies through which patient safety and quality improvement studies are designed and executed.

This course will provide students with an understanding of the principles and empirical methods to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses using decision-analytic modeling tools.

This course will introduce students to basic epidemiology principles with a particular focus on how they are applied to pharmaceuticals.

This course builds on PHA [6276] Pharmacy Benefit Design and Management and PHA [6935] Managed Care Pharmacy Operations by probing deeply into solving the most complex problems facing managed prescription drug programs.

This course introduces biostatistical concepts and methods used in pharmacy and medical literature.

The purpose of this course is an introduction to analyzing medical and pharmacy data using programming techniques in SAS and SQL

The purpose of this course is the introduction of intermediate and advanced methods of analyzing healthcare data by exposure to utilizing clinical risk adjustment models in SAS (currently used in industry).

The purpose of this course is to build upon managed care pharmacy principles to introduce students to the related applicable operations of managed care organizations (MCOs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

This course will prepare the student to apply practical strategies for medication error prevention.

This elective course in the Master of Science with a focus in Patient Safety in Medication Use will provide the participant with an overview of current medication safety technology being used in healthcare today

This is the first course in a two‐course series designed to provide students in the Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences with Focus on Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy an overview of drug discovery, development, approval, marketing, regulation, and use in the United States. This course is designed to show how all the pieces of the “U.S. medication system” fit together.

The second course in a two-course series designed to provide students in the Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences with Focus on Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy an overview of drug discovery, development, approval, marketing, regulation, and use in the United States. This course is designed to show how the pieces of the “U.S. medication system” fit together.

Communication entails control: crafting a message such that a reader understands what a writer intends. We will use the pharmacy literature to identify how texts are made for different audiences, then use the literature to write evidence-based prose. The ultimate goal of the class is to develop (or polish) a suite of literacy skills useful for professional communication.