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PharmD\PhD Program
Degree Requirements
All PharmD/PhD degree candidates are required to take core courses and courses specific to their chosen research track (clinical pharmacology, basic pharmacology, pharmaceutics or pharmacy administration). The total course of study (PharmD and PhD degrees) is anticipated to be completed in a total of seven years upon entering the College of Pharmacy.Required Core Courses:
| Title | Hours | ||
| PCOL 7441: | Experimental Design & Biostatistics | 4 | |
| PCOL 7370: | Scientific Writing | 3 | |
| PCOL 7333: | Principles of Molecular Pharmacology | 3 | |
| PCEU 7355: | Regulatory Affairs | 3 | |
| PCOL 6241: | Drug Literature Review | 2 | |
| Total | 15 | ||
Additional Courses
The students will take a minimum of 33 additional graduate-level credit hours prior to completion of their program (program total: (48 credit hours). At least 16 of these hours will be didactic course work and at least 17 hours will be research courses. The courses are to be selected in consultation with the student's Dissertation Committee. The Dissertation Committee may make minor changes in the proportion of graduate-level didactic to research courses in the student's plan of study. The courses will be predominantly from the course offerings in the College of Pharmacy and the respective discipline. Some courses may be taken at other colleges in the University and/or from our sister institutions. PharmD/PhD candidates must participate in all the academic activities of the professional and graduate programs. Examples of these activities are: attending and presenting seminars; literature review classes, participation at state and national professional/scientific meetings.The student must select a major professor during the first year of the program. If the student has not selected a major professor within one year, one of the program directors will serve as major professor until a selection has been done. The dissertation committee, as a minimum, shall consist of the major professor(s) as Chair (co-chair), two faculty members of the college, one UH faculty member outside the College and one faculty member or senior consultant from outside the University.
A cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (A=4.00) must be maintained in all required courses. A grade less than C in a required course is not acceptable for progression. In addition to coursework, the students must complete an original research project, write a doctoral dissertation and successfully defend the dissertation before their doctoral committee.
Typical Academic Schedule for PharmD/Ph.D Program
First Year/Fall
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR 4270: | Pharmacy Practice | 2 | |
| PHAR 4400: | Cellular Life Sciences I | 4 | |
| PHAR 4320: | Organ Systems Life Science I | 3 | |
| PHAR 4260: | Pharmacy Management 1 | 2 | |
| PHAR 4330: | Pharmaceutics I | 3 | |
| PHAR 4350: | Pharmacy Skills I | 3 | |
| Total | 17 | ||
FirstYear/Spring
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR 4271: | Pharmacy Practice II | 2 | |
| PHAR 4401: | Organ System Life Science II | 4 | |
| PHAR 4261: | Cellular Life Sciences II | 4 | |
| PHAR 4331: | Pharmaceutics II | 3 | |
| PHAR 4351: | Pharmacy Skills II | 3 | |
| Total | 16 | ||
FirstYear/Summer
| Title | Hours |
| Core courses and/or graduate level elective courses: | 6 |
| PHAR 5397: | Anatomy | 3 |
| Total | 9 | |
Second Year/Fall
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR 5421: | Pharmacy Management II | 2 | |
| PHAR 5702: | Pharmacodynamics I | 7 | |
| PHAR 5432: | Pharmacokinetics | 4 | |
| Core and/or additional graduate-level courses | 4-6 | ||
| Total | 17-19 | ||
Second Year/Spring
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR 5373: | Pharmacy Practice IV | 3 | |
| PHAR 5353: | Skills IV | 3 | |
| PHAR 5703: | Pharmacodynamics II | 7 | |
| Core and/or additional graduate-level courses | 3 | ||
| Total | 16 | ||
Second Year/Summer
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR5492 or PHAR5493: | Hospital\Community Rotation | 3 | |
| Core and/or additional graduate-level courses | 6 | ||
| Total | 10 | ||
Third Year/Fall
| Title | Hours | ||
| Graduate-level course | 3 | ||
| PHAR 5380: | Physical Assessment | 3 | |
| PHAR 5322: | Toxicology or graduate-level course | 3 | |
| PHAR 5581: | Adv. Therapeutics I | 5 | |
| PHAR 5354: | Skills V | 3 | |
| Total | 17 | ||
Third Year/Spring
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHAR 5374: | Pharmacy Law and Ethics | 3 | |
| PHAR 5363: | Pharmacy Management IV and/or graduate-level courses | 4-6 | |
| PHAR 5582: | Adv. Therapeutics II | 5 | |
| PHAR 5355: | Pharmacy Skills VI | 3 | |
| Total | 15-17 | ||
Third Year/Summer
| Title | Hours | |
| Clinical Rotation | 6 | |
| Research courses | 4-6 | |
| Total | 10-12 | |
Fourth year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Graduate elective courses | 6 hours/ year |
| Clinical Rotation | 6 hours/ year |
| Research courses/ Dissertation | 12 hours/ year |
Fifth year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Graduate elective courses | 6 hours/ year |
| Clinical Rotation | 6 hours/ year |
| Research courses/ Dissertation | 12 hours/ year |
Sixth year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Graduate elective courses | 6 hours/ year |
| Clinical Rotation | 6 hours/ year |
| Research courses/ Dissertation | 12 hours/ year |
Seventh year (Fall)
| Title | Hours | ||
| Clinical Rotation | 6 | ||
| Research and /or elective courses | 3 | ||
| Dissertation | 6 | ||
| Total | 15 | ||