Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Courses
Course Code and Number, Course Title, Credit(s) PHSR 610 Pharmacy, Drugs, and the Health Care System (3)
This course encompasses an examination of the principle components of the US health care system with special emphasis on their relationship to the provision of drugs and pharmacy services. PHSR 620 Introduction to Health Behavioral Theory (3)
This course covers medical sociology, psychology, social psychology, and interpersonal communication theories and research as they address medicine use and health-related behaviors involving patients, pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals. Students are acquainted with select health behavior theories and learn about research issues specific to the field of behavioral science. PHSR 650 Pharmaceutical Economics (3)
This course is designed to familiarize the student with economic structure, conduct and performance of the pharmaceutical industry and provide an introduction to pharmacoeconomics. The course includes such topics as prices and profits in the industry, productivity, cost, economies of scale, innovation, economic effects of regulation, cost benefit and cost effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and efficiency of drug delivery systems.
Prerequisite: one undergraduate economics course or permission of the instructor. PHSR 670/PREV 650-Principles of Health Education, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (3)
Health education is a scientific process designed to achieve voluntary behavioral changes to improve health status. Health promotion utilizes health education to promote health and prevent disease. The PRECEDE Model is used to demonstrate the analytical process to explore health problems, identify and assess the behavioral and non-behavioral factors associated with them in order to develop and evaluate interventions. This course addresses health education at the level of the individual, the family and the community at large. Because the relationship between practitioner and patient is often a major determinant of outcome, health promotion in the clinical setting is given emphasis. PHSR 701 Research Methods I (3)
Health education is a scientific process designed to achieve voluntary behavioral changes to improve health status. Health promotion utilizes health education to promote health and prevent disease. The PRECEDE Model is used to demonstrate the analytical process to explore health problems, identify and assess the behavioral and non-behavioral factors associated with them in order to develop and evaluate interventions. This course addresses health education at the level of the individual, the family and the community at large. Because the relationship between practitioner and patient is often a major determinant of outcome, health promotion in the clinical setting is given emphasis. PHSR 702 Research Methods II (3)
This course is designed to introduce the student to the concepts of the scientific research in pharmacy practice and administrative science. Topics to be discussed include the scientific method and problem solving processes, social science measurement, and several specific methods of research.
Corequisite: Introduction to Biostatistics PHSR 704/PREV 705 Pharmacoepidemiology (3)
Gives research tools to design studies assessing the impact of pharmaceutical (or other) interventions or policies in actual practice settings. Unlike clinical trials where subjects are randomized to treatment or placebo arms, health services researchers typically are forced to use non-experimental designs with secondary data. This course will take you through the pitfalls in such designs and show you how to deal with them.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Biostatistics (multivariate regression) or permission of the instructor PHSR 708 Special Problems (1-6)
Students are given the opportunity to work with a faculty member on individual and specialized projects/research. The project/research provides students direct experience of collection, organization, and analysis of data. PHSR 709 PHSR Graduate Seminar (1-3)
Graduate seminar is conducted weekly to inform students and faculty about new research and current issues. Each week there is a different presenter. The speaker may be a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, resident, faculty member, or guest speaker, who presents a current topic in the educational or pharmaceutical field. Seminar attendance is mandatory for all graduate students while in residency. PHSR 722 Advanced Topics in Pharmacoepidemiology (2-3)
The purpose of this course is to engage students in the techniques of pharmacoepidemiology through case studies and by working through an actual drug safety investigation. Drug safety will be addressed in the context of science and the law through readings, debates, and discussions with invited guests. Using the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System database and the medical literature, students will work up the epidemiological characteristics of a drug safety signal. Based on the characteristics of the signal, the team will design a pharmacoepidemiological study to further evaluate the safety signal. This course is cross listed as PREV 722.
Prerequisites: PREV 600, PREV 620, and PHSR 704 or permission of the instructor PHSR 899 PHSR Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-12) top | 
