University of the Incarnate Word - Feik School of Pharmacy

Catalog Descriptions for Classes

Spring 2009

PI Courses

PHAR 3150: Ethics and Life Issues

Catalog Description: Ethics and Life Issues is an introductory study of current and relevant topics impacting health care with attention to the development of a framework for ethical decision-making.

PHAR 3235: Applied Pharmaceutical Care II (PAC II)

Catalog Description: This is the second in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient /medication related issues. The course will introduce patient medical records. Clinical laboratory assessment and patient assessment skills will also be introduced. This course will emphasize professional writing and computer skills, presentations, critical thinking skills and professionalism.

PHAR 3253: Pharmacy and Health Care Systems I

Catalog Description: This course is the first in a series of courses that will orient students to the many facets of pharmacy in the evolving US health care system. Paying particular attention to pharmacy as a profession, the practice of pharmacy, and the delivery of pharmaceutical care in a complex health care environment, the course considers the structure, function and associated policy considerations of the U.S. health care delivery system. This course is an overview of the social, economic, and political environments in which health care currently is being delivered to the American public and the impact on the practice of pharmacy. During the semester, students will study the organization of health care in the United States by analyzing the following:

managed health care organizations
patients/consumers
pharmacists
physicians and other providers and
governmental agencies

PHAR 3425: Pharmaceutics II and Laboratory Syllabus

Catalog Description: This course applies fundamental biological and physicochemical principles important for the formulation, preparation, stability, and performance of pharmaceutical dosage forms. A major component of this course will be an emphasis on institutional pharmacy and sterile techniques. The weekly laboratory session continues to complement classroom topics and to hone students’ technical skills.

PHAR 3515: Anatomy and Physiology II Lecture and Laboratory

Catalog description: Second semester of a two-semester course designed to emphasize basic physiological principles and regulatory processes involved in maintaining homeostasis within the human body. Content will focus on structure and function from the level of cells to whole body systems. Topics include the physiology and structure of the renal, respiratory, acid-base, digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems. This course will be taught from an integrative point of view as many concepts will overlap among systems

PHAR 3417: Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Catalog description: This course provides a comprehensive study of the field of medical microbiology and the immune system. This course will include a survey of infectious microbes and the clinical consequences of infection. Topics will include basic microbial nomenclature, microbial structure, virulence factors and mechanisms of tissue damage. The immunological portion of the course will focus on the structure and function of the individual components of the immune system as well as the way in which the individual components work together to keep an individual healthy or when the immune system breaks down and is the cause of a medical condition. Additional attention will be given to the study of immune system manipulation in medicine. This course will place particular emphasis on those aspects that will later be important for drug therapy.

PII Courses

PHAR 4235: Applied Pharmaceutical Care IV (PAC IV)

Catalog description: This is the fourth in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient /medication related issues. The course includes presentations on drug misadventures and intervention techniques. The student will be introduced to disease management and protocol development. The course also includes an introduction to dispensing and an overview of herbals, botanicals and nonprescription medications.

PHAR 4245: Pharmacotherapeutics IV – Renal Disorders and Electrolytes/Fluids

Catalog Description: This is the fourth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of renal diseases and electrolyte and fluid management in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 4543: Pharmacotherapeutics V Cardiovascular Disorders

Catalog description: This is the fifth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of cardiovascular diseases in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 4247: Pharmacotherapeutics VI – Pulmonary Diseases

Catalog Description: This is the sixth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of pulmonary diseases in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 4255: Pharmacy Law

Catalog Description: This course will provide a basis for the legal practice of pharmacy and begin the student’s preparation for the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Licensing Examination (MPJE). The course will explore the details of both federal and state pharmacy law.

PHAR 4351: Pharmacy Management

Catalog description: This course is designed to build students' practice management abilities. This course familiarizes pharmacy students with the basic principles, terms, and functions of pharmacy management that must be undertaken in every pharmacy practice setting.

PHAR 4261: Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience I

Catalog Description: The Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience I is the first of a two part series of an introduction to the formal internship experience. The course serves as the basis for the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences. Students will apply knowledge and skills obtained in the classroom and laboratory to a pharmacy setting under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist.

P III Courses

PHAR 5443: Pharmacotherapeutics X– Central Nervous System Disorders

Catalog Description: This is the tenth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of central nervous system diseases including headache, seizure, neurobehavioral developmental, movement, mood, and mental disorders as well as pathologies associated with drugs of in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 5347: Pharmacotherapeutics XII – Neoplastic Disorders

Catalog Description: This is the eleventh of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of cancers in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 5245: Pharmacotherapeutics XI – Gastrointestinal Diseases

Catalog Description: This is the last of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics XI will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of gastrointestinal diseases in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 5255: Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes II

Catalog Description: This course builds upon Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes I. Students will apply the principles of cost-minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, and cost-benefit analysis to real-world scenarios. Publications of pharmacoeconomics studies will be reviewed and critiqued. Health-related quality of life, decision analysis, and international comparisons will also be reviewed and evaluated. Emphasis will be placed upon cost-effective use of drugs and outcomes of therapy.

PHAR 5235: Applied Pharmacy Care VI (PAC VI) and Laboratory

Catalog Description: This is the sixth in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient /medication related issues. The course includes use of knowledge, skills and techniques to design and conduct medication order execution, disease management and disease prevention programs in an institutional setting.

P III Electives

PHAR 5173: Review of New Drugs

Catalog Description: This course will discuss resources to identify new drugs, recently approved drugs, and drugs in development. Drug indications, adverse effects, dosage, products, comparable drugs, advantages, disadvantages, and place in therapy will be discussed for each new drug.

PHAR 5175: Alcohol and Drugs of Addiction

Catalog Description: This is an introductory course outlining the physical, economic, social and legal issues associated with alcoholism and drugs of abuse.

PHAR 5271: Advanced Diabetes Management

Catalog Description: This course will provide students with the necessary skills to develop a special practice focus on caring for patients with diabetes. The course will explore the details of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and development and progression of long-term complications.

PHAR 5275: Nutrition Support for Pharmacists

Catalog Description: This course emphasizes the pharmacist’s role in the implementation of appropriate and current nutrition support practice to improve the outcomes of patients.

Catalog Descriptions for Courses 2008 - 2009

P I Classes

PHAR 3157: Drug Information

Catalog Description: This course introduces students to medical and drug information sources. Individual and group activities will provide students with experience in determining the most appropriate and up-to-date information sources for the education of patients and health care professionals. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking and problem solving skills necessary to formulate and answer drug information questions.

PHAR 3170 - Professional (Applied) Development Skills (for transfers)

Catalog description: The course is designed to introduce the doctor of pharmacy transfer student to the profession of pharmacy and condenses the Professional (Applied) Development Skills series. This course introduces the history and development of pharmacy and pharmacy education in the United States, the concept of pharmaceutical care, and the role of the pharmacist. This course further provides the student with the basis of medical terminology and abbreviations.

PHAR 3226: Pharmacy Calculations

Catalog description: This course covers the mathematics encountered in the practice of pharmacy, focused on getting the correct dose of drug to a patient. Topics include reading and processing prescription orders, unit systems and conversions, the calculation of doses and other calculations involved in dispensing and compounding.

PHAR 3230: Applied Pharmaceutical Care I (PAC I)

Catalog description: This is the first in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient/medication related issues. Communication techniques in the clinical setting will be explored and practiced through role-playing, writing, presenting and working in groups. The student will be exposed to the concepts of pharmacy care, professional attitudes and cultural competence.

PHAR 3316: Biochemistry

Catalog description: This is a comprehensive course on biochemistry and molecular biology concepts. This course will focus on the structure, chemistry and function of macromolecules and their building blocks, i.e., amino acids, carbohydrates, nucleotides and fatty acids. Major metabolic and catabolic pathways will be discussed in relation to drug action. Enzyme kinetics and regulation, and bioenergetics will be presented.

PHAR 3420: Pharmaceutics I and Laboratory

Catalog description: This course includes fundamental biological and physicochemical principles important for the formulation, preparation, stability, and performance of pharmaceutical dosage forms. A weekly laboratory session enhances the understanding of classroom concepts and develops students’ technical skills.

PHAR 3510: Anatomy and Physiology I

Catalog description: An in-depth study of human anatomy and physiology along with some basic pathophysiology. The human body will be studied by cell and organ systems. The laboratory will focus on hands-on exercises of anatomy and physiology of the organ systems presented in the lectures. The first semester will review cellular biology and present the nervous and cardiovascular systems.

P II Classes

PHAR 4152: Principles of Public Health for Pharmacists

Catalog description: This course will prepare students to identify public health issues and to identify populations at risk for a variety of diseases. In addition, this course will enable the student to critically evaluate current trends in the care of patient populations. Focusing on the role of the pharmacist, students will be able to identify the contribution of specific health care providers in the public health policy.

PHAR 4230: Applied Pharmaceutical Care III (PAC III)

Catalog description: This is the third in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient /medication related issues. The course includes patient assessment skills using history taking and physical assessment techniques, diagnostic tools, and clinical chemistry.

PHAR 4254: Pharmacy and Health Care Systems II

Catalog Description: This course is the second in a series of courses that will continue to explore the many facets of pharmacy in the evolving US health care system. The general purpose of this course is to enable students to apply knowledge of the US health care delivery system to the profession of pharmacy and systems for the provision of appropriate pharmaceutical care. During the semester students will also learn and discuss the following topics applicable to pharmacy: quality assurance, counterfeit drugs, internet sites, state boards, bioterrorism, collaborative practice, immigration, pharmacist shortage, residency programs, new technologies, consumers, unresolved issues, drug distribution and the future of pharmacy.

PHAR 4342: Pharmacotherapeutics I - Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

Catalog description: This is the first of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. The Introduction to the Medicinal Chemistry module will present the basic principles of structure activity relationships and biochemical pharmacology with special emphasis placed on physicochemical properties of functional groups, acid-based chemistry, impact of physicochemical properties on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of drug molecules and drug metabolism.

PHAR 4344: Pharmacotherapeutics II - Introduction to Pharmacology

Catalog description: This is the second of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. In this module, the students will learn about basic pharmacology including receptor theory, transduction systems, receptor systems, homeostasis toxicology, adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, pharmacogenomics and pharmacological considerations for special populations.

PHAR 4346: Pharmacotherapeutics III – DEENT (Derm, Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat)

Catalog description: This is the third of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of diseases of the skin, eyes and ears, cough, cold, flu and allergy in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 4426: Pharmacokinetics

Catalog description: This course combines basic and clinical perspectives in the application of physiology, pharmaceutics, mathematics, and clinical assessment to explain the fate of drugs administered to individual patients. Basic formulas and their underlying assumptions will be examined and applied to enable the student to initiate, monitor and optimize drug regimens to achieve desired therapeutic outcomes.

P III Classes

PHAR 5150: Pharmacoeconomics I

Catalog description: This course is designed to give the student an overview of basic principles of pharmacoeconomics and drug utilization evaluation. The student will learn the basic concepts, terminology, methods and assumptions necessary for pharmacoeconomics analysis.

PHAR 5230: Applied Pharmaceutical Care V (PAC V)

Catalog description: This is the fifth in a series of courses that will focus on the application of pharmaceutical care principles, pharmaceutical knowledge and professional techniques to solve patient /medication related issues. The course includes use of skills and techniques to design and conduct health education in a community setting. Additionally, students will be trained to administer immunizations

PHAR 5244: Pharmacotherapeutics VIII - Endocrine Disorders

Catalog Description: This is the eighth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of endocrine diseases including diabetes, dysthyroidism, reproductive disorders and hormonal imbalances in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

PHAR 5246: Pharmacotherapeutics IX - Skeletal/Muscular Disorders

Catalog Description: This is the ninth of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of diseases of the gastrointestinal track in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines.

Prerequisite: P3 standing or consent of course coordinator.

PHAR 5358Stats/Lit Evaluation

Catalog description: This course will teach students how to critically evaluate the biomedical literature. Students will learn the appropriate biostatistical methods used in data analysis for different trial designs. During the course students will use different methods to analyze and present data. At the conclusion of the course, students will critique the biomedical literature and present the clinical relevance of the results.

PHAR 5542: Pharmacotherapeutics VII - Infectious Disease

Catalog Description: This is the seventh of twelve courses that are sequenced to run consecutively for four semesters. Pharmacotherapeutics will cover pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapy of infectious diseases in a team-taught, multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover basic scientific principles and disease state management based on organ systems. The students will have the opportunity to learn, apply and integrate knowledge from the four disciplines

PIII Electives

PHAR 5170: Applied Biblical Studies I

Catalog Description: Applied Biblical Studies I (Pentateuch) will examine the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy). The student will have the opportunity to learn and apply biblical teachings to the student’s personal life and the practice of pharmacy.

PHAR 5172: Introduction to General Toxicology

Catalog description: This course will introduce the field of toxicology to pharmacy students. This introduction will include the presentation of the principals of toxicology, discussions of potential toxins and toxicants, an introduction to where information on toxins and toxicants can be found, and the exploration of possible careers in the field.

PHAR 5174: Introduction to Clinical Toxicology

Catalog description: This course will introduce pharmacy students to the field of clinical toxicology. The symptoms and mechanisms of toxicity, the use and mechanisms of available antidotes, and the outcomes of exposure to toxic levels of therapeutic agents and drugs of abuse and to common toxins and toxicants will be examined. The availability and use of clinical resources for identifying unknown toxicants and treating such exposures will be explored

PHAR 5182: Tobacco Cessation

Catalog description: This course will provide information on tobacco cessation. Topics covered will include epidemiology of tobacco use, principles of nicotine addiction, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic aids for tobacco cessation, and use of patient-centered counseling techniques. The goal of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide comprehensive tobacco cessation counseling to patients who use tobacco.

PHAR 5276: Landmark Studies: Cardiovascular

Catalog description: This two-hour elective course will focus on important clinical trials that shape the use of pharmacotherapy. The overall objective of the course is to assist the student in their ability to provide clinical evidence to support drug therapy recommendations in the treatment of common diseases encountered during their clinical rotations and future practice.

PHAR 5276: Landmark Studies: General Medicine

PHAR 5278: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Palliative Care and End of Life Issues

Catalog description: In this elective course, students from a variety of disciplines examine palliative care and end of life issues from the perspective of a variety of healthcare practitioners, including nurses and pharmacists. The provision of physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care will be explored. The course integrates pathophysiology, pharmacology, and advanced physical examination principles to assess and manage symptoms in persons with progressive life-threatening illnesses according to evidence based standards of care. Ethics and legal issues will be explored in reference to palliative care and end of life issues. Didactic study will be augmented with experiential experience and clinically focused work using case study and discussion.

PHAR 5282: The Yin and Yang of Natural Dietary Supplements

Catalog description: This course will provide information on the use of natural dietary supplements and possible dietary supplement-drug interactions. Topics covered will include pattern of dietary supplements use, mechanism of action, possible drug-drug interactions, and adverse drug reactions. The goal of the course is to provide broad knowledge of dietary supplements and possible dietary supplement-drug interactions. The student will learn counseling techniques for patients who use dietary supplement(s).