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4.00 Credits
A required four credit hour experiential course years involving 160 hours of on-site experiential education. The course is designed to provide the student pharmacist with exposure to the practice of pharmacy in an institutional health-system (hospital) environment in either a rural or urban setting within the state of Kansas. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Completion of PHAR 502 or instructor consent. FLD
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the health care system of the United States. On completion of the course the student will better understand the impact on pharmacy of changes in financing and technology. Enrollment limited to pharmacy majors. LEC
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3.00 Credits
In Physical assessment, students will learn how to utilize the available instruments to take blood pressures, temperatures, doing eye/ear exams, palpate/ausculate internal organs, and the most common skin conditions seen by a pharmacist. Chemical assessment will involve the students learning how drugs and disease change physiological fluid content, identification methods, and therapeutic monitoring through case study discussion and presentations. Prerequisite: Admission into the Non-traditional Pharm.D. program. LEC
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2.00 Credits
This course presents discussions on physiological and disease state variables in pharmacokinetics for selected drugs and drug classes, and instructs students in the use of physiological and disease state pharmacokinetic information to develop individualized therapeutic regimens. Prerequisite: PHCH 625 and PHCH 626. LEC
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3.00 Credits
This course presents discussions and clinical examples on physiological and disease state variables in pharmacokinetics for selected drugs and drug classes, and instructs students in the use of physiological and disease state pharmacokinetic information to develop or individualized therapeutic regimens. Delivery of this course will involve some aspects of distance learning. Prerequisite: Admission into the Non-traditional Pharm.D. program. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This elective class will explore emerging areas of research currently impacting the pharmaceutical industry. Potential topics include; biologicals as therapeutics, drug targeting, prodrugs, nanotechnology, biological barriers, gene therapy, transporters, vaccines, intracellular drug trafficking, controlled release drug delivery, cancer therapy, analytical biotechnology and many others. The class will be team taught by PHCH faculty and guest speakers. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Must be accepted to the Pharmacy Program. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This elective class will explore emerging areas of research currently impacting the pharmaceutical industry. Potential topics include; biologicals as therapeutics, drug targeting, prodrugs, nanotechnology, biological barriers, gene therapy, transporters, vaccines, intracellular drug trafficking, controlled release drug delivery, cancer therapy, analytical biotechnology and many others. The class will be team taught by PHCH faculty and guest speakers. Prerequisite: Must be accepted to the Pharmacy Program. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This class will explore both the costs and time lines required for the approval of both new as well as generic drug products from identification of drug targets to FDA approval, and Phase 4 studies. Included will be a short history of the establishment of the FDA and its evolving role. The contributions of Frances Kelsey, the FDA scientist who fought the approval of thalidomide in the USA and thus saved many from the trauma of birth defects caused by the drug will be discussed. The class will be team taught by pharmaceutical chemistry faculty and guest speakers. Graded on a satisfactory/fail basis. Prerequisite: Completion of PHCH 626 or instructor permission. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This special topics course will cover the "public's perception" of drug discovery and development. This course is organized around a recently published book entitled "Drug Truths: Dispelling the Myths about Pharma R&D" (John Wiley & Sons, 2009). This book was written by John L. La Mattina, who was formally President of Pfizer Global Research ad Development. The course will address the following public myths about drug discovery and development: Cholesterol drugs are unnecessary, industry is more interested in "me-too" drugs than innovation, it takes industry too long to discover new drugs, drugs are discovered by academia, new medicines add cost but little benefit, big Pharma has failed and should learn from Biotech success, the industry invents diseases, new drugs are less safe than traditional medicine, industry spends more on advertising than R&D, and industry does not care about diseases of the developing world. Prerequisite: Must be accepted to the Pharmacy Program. LEC
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to the mathematics involved in filling prescriptions and in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. Includes an introduction to standard prescription notation and familiarization with pharmaceutical weights and measures. LEC
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