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Pharm.D.\Ph.D. 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, medicinal chemistry or pharmaceutics). It is anticipated that the total course of study (PharmD and PhD degrees) will be completed in a total of seven years upon entering the College of Pharmacy.Required Core Courses:
| Title | Hours | ||
| PHCA 6308: | Biostatistics & Experimental Design | 3 | |
| PCOL 7370: | Scientific Writing | 3 | |
| PCOL 7333: | Principles of Molecular Pharmacology | 3 | |
| PCEU 6397: | Regulatory Affairs | 3 | |
| PCOL 6141, 6142, 7141, 7142 | Pharmacological Literature Review OR | ||
| PCEU 6142, 6143, 7142, 7143 | Pharmaceutics Literature Review | 4 | |
| PCEU 6180, 7181 or | Seminar | 2 | |
| Total | 18 | ||
Additional Courses
The students are also required to take an additional nine credits of graduate level elective courses in their area of emphasis. Further, students are given credit for an additional 18 credit hours of didactic courses in the Ph.D. program because they take equivalent courses in the PharmD program. Therefore, students will take a minimum of 46 credit hours of didactic and 24 hours of research courses prior to completion of their Ph.D. program. Special problems courses may account for no more than half of the research credits. 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 at the Texas Medical Center. 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.Students are encouraged to select a major professor as soon as possible after admittance into the combined program. If the student has not selected a major professor by year three of the program, the Director of Graduate Studies will serve as major professor until a selection has been made. The dissertation committee shall consist of the major professor as Chair, two additional faculty members within 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 Ph.D. courses. Students receiving a grade of C or lower in courses within a Ph.D. degree plan, totaling 8 credit hours or more, will be dismissed from the Ph.D. program. A grade less than C in a required course is unacceptable. In addition to coursework, the students must pass a qualifying examination, defend their research proposal, 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 in Pharmacology
First Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 4270: | Pharmacy Practice I | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4400: | Cellular Life Sciences I | 4* | |||
| PHAR 4320: | Organ Systems Life Science I | 3§ | |||
| PHAR 4330: | Pharmaceutics I | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4250: | Pharmacy Skills I | 2 | |||
| Total | 14 | ||||
*Accepted in lieu of PCOL 7330 Biochemical Pharmacology.
§Equivalent to PCOL 6350 Neurophysiology in PhD program.
FirstYear/Spring
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 4260: | Pharmacy Management I | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4271: | Pharmacy Practice II | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4421: | Organ System Life Sciences II | 4* | |||
| PHAR 4301: | Cellular Life Sciences II | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4331: | Pharmaceutics II | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4251: | Pharmacy Skills II | 2 | |||
| Total | 16 | ||||
*Equivalent to PCOL 6451 Organ Physiology in PhD program.
FirstYear/Summer
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
| Graduate level special problems OR courses/deficiencies* | 6 |
| Total | 6 | |
*If conditionally accepted into PhD program due to deficiencies in coursework,
these deficiencies can be corrected during this summer semester (e.g.
Calculus II or physics). This semester could also be used to expedite
choice of research lab by doing laboratory rotations.
Second Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 5402: | Pharmacology I | 4* | |||
| PHAR 5302: | Medicinal Chemistry I | 3* | |||
| PHAR 5332: | Pharmacokinetics | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5254: | IPPE I and Professional Development | 2 | |||
| PCOL 7341: | Experimental Design and Analysis | 3 | |||
| PCOL 6180: | Pharmacology Seminar | 1 | |||
| PHAR 5261 | Management II - exempt | ||||
| Total | 12 | 4 | |||
*Accepted in lieu of PCOL 6470 Advanced Pharmacology I in PhD program;
formerly combined as a single, 7-credit hr course, PHAR 5702 Pharmacodynamics
I.
Second Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
|||
| PHAR 5373: | Pharmacy Practice IV | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5255: | Skills IV | 2 | |||
| PHAR 5403: | Pharmacology II | 4* | |||
| PHAR 5203: | Medicinal Chemistry II | 2 | |||
| PCEU 6397: | Regulatory Affairs | 3 | |||
| PCOL 7181: | Pharmacology Seminar | 1 | |||
| PHAR 5362: | Management III - exempt | 0 | |||
| PHAR 5280: | Therapeutics I | 1 | |||
| Total | 13 | 4 | |||
*Accepted in lieu of PCOL 6371 Advanced Pharmacology II in PhD program;
formerly combined as a single, 7-credit hr course PHAR 5703 Pharmacodynamics
II.
Second Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
|||
| PCOL 6498 | Special Problems - Research rotation | 4 | |||
| PCOL 6298 | Special Problems - Research rotation | 2 | |||
| Pharmacy electives (6 credit hr – exempt*) | |||||
| PHAR 5493 | Introductory Community Pharmacy Rotation | 4 | |||
| Total | 4 | 6 | |||
*Waived in lieu of PCEU 6397 Regulatory Affairs and PCOL 7441 Experimental Design and Analysis; these courses may fill requirements for pharmacy electives.
Third Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
|||
| PCOL 7333: | Molecular Pharmacology (or PHAR 5222 Toxicology) |
3 | |||
| PHAR 5480: | Physical Assessment/Anatomy | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5581: | Adv. Therapeutics I | 5 | |||
| PHAR 5274: | Pharmacy Practice V | 2 | |||
| PHAR 5256: | Pharmacy Skills Program V | 2 | |||
| Total | 13 | 3 | |||
Third Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PHAR 5374: | Pharmacy Law and Ethics | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5275: | Pharmacy Practice VI | 2 | |||
| PCOL Elective (#1) | 3-4 | ||||
| PHAR 5582: | Adv. Therapeutics II | 5 | |||
| PHAR 5257: | Pharmacy Skills Program VI | 2 | |||
| Total | 12 | 3-4 | |||
Third Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PHAR 5692: | Advanced Hospital Pharmacy (Clinical rotation 1) | 6 | |||
| PHAR 5693: | Advanced Community Pharmacy (Clinical rotation 2) | 6 | |||
| Total | 12 | ||||
Fourth Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCOL elective (#2) | 3 | ||||
| PCOL 6141 : | Pharmacological Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCOL 6498: | Special Problems | 4 | |||
| PCOL 6180: | Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
Fourth Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCOL 7370: | Scientific Writing | 3 | |||
| PCOL 6142: | Pharmacological Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCOL 7181: | Seminar | 1 | |||
| PCOL 6498: | Special Problems | 4 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
Fourth Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PHAR 5690: | Institutional Medicine Clinical rotation | 6 | |||
| PHAR 56XX: | Clinical rotation 4 (Choose from the list below) | 6 | |||
| Total | 12 | ||||
Fifth Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCOL elective (#3) | 3 | ||||
| PCOL 7141: | Pharmacological Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCOL 8498: | Doctoral Research | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5181: | Clinical Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 1 | 8 | |||
Fifth Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PCOL 7142: | Pharmacological Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCOL 8798: | Doctoral Research* | 7 | |||
| PCOL 7181 : | Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
*Doctoral Research will fulfill the requirement for PHAR 5672 Clinical Pharmaceutical Research other Rotation #5.
Fifth Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PHAR 56XX Clinical rotation 6 | 6 | ||||
| PHAR 56XX Clinical rotation 7 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 12 | ||||
This fulfills the requirements for the PharmD degree. Students
should graduate from PharmD program at the end of this summer semester,
and can officially enter into PhD program if admittance was conditional.
Sixth Year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Doctoral Research/Doctoral Dissertation | 24 hours/ year |
Seventh Year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Doctoral Research/Doctoral Dissertation | 24 hours/ year |
Typical Academic Schedule for PharmD/Ph.D in Pharmaceutics
First Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 4270: | Pharmacy Practice I | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4400: | Cellular Life Sciences I | 4 | |||
| PHAR 4320: | Organ Systems Life Science I | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4330: | Pharmaceutics I | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4250: | Pharmacy Skills I | 2 | |||
| Total | 14 | ||||
FirstYear/Spring
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
|||
| PHAR 4271: | Pharmacy Practice II | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4421: | Organ System Life Sciences II | 4 | |||
| PHAR 4260: | Pharmacy Management I | 2 | |||
| PHAR 4301: | Cellular Life Sciences II | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4331: | Pharmaceutics II | 3 | |||
| PHAR 4251: | Pharmacy Skills II | 2 | |||
| Total | 16 | ||||
First Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| Graduate level special problems courses/deficiencies* | 6 | ||||
| Total | 6 | ||||
*If conditionally accepted into PhD program due to deficiencies in coursework,
these deficiencies can be corrected during this summer semester (e.g.
Calculus II or physics). This semester could also be used to expedite
choice of research lab by doing laboratory rotations.
Second Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 5402: | Pharmacology I | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5302: | Medicinal Chemistry I | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5332: | Pharmacokinetics | 3* | |||
| PHAR 5254: | IPPE 1 and Professional Development | 2 | |||
| PCOL 7341: | Experimental Design and Analysis | 3 | |||
| PCEU 6180: | Pharmaceutics Seminar | 1 | |||
| PHAR 5261 | Management II - exempt | ||||
| Total | 12 | 4 | |||
*Accepted in lieu of PCEU 6341 Advanced Pharmacokinetics in PhD program.
Second Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | PhD | |||
| PHAR 5373: | Pharmacy Practice IV | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5255: | Skills IV | 2 | |||
| PHAR 5403: | Pharmacology II | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5203: | Medicinal Chemistry II | 2 | |||
| PCEU 6397: | Regulatory Affairs | 3 | |||
| PCOL 7181: | Pharmaceutics Seminar | 1 | |||
| PHAR 5256: | Management III - exempt | ||||
| PHAR 5280: | Therapeutics | 2 | |||
| Total | 13 | 4 | |||
Second Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PCEU 6498 | Special Problems - Research rotation | 4 | |||
| PCEU 6298 | Special Problems - Research rotation | 2 | |||
| Pharmacy electives (6 credit hr – exempt* | |||||
| PHAR 5493 | Introdcutory Community Pharmacy Rotation | 4 | |||
| Total | 4 | 6 | |||
*Waived in lieu of PCEU 6397 Regulatory Affairs and PCOL 7441 Experimental Design and Analysis; these courses may fill requirements for pharmacy electives.
Third Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | PhD |
|||
| PCOL 7333: | Molecular Pharmacology (or PHAR 5222 Toxicology | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5480: | Physical Assessment/Anatomy | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5581: | Adv. Therapeutics I | 5 | |||
| PHAR 5274: | Pharmacy Practice V | 2 | |||
| PHAR 5257: | Pharmacy Skills Program V | 2 | |||
| Total | 13 | 3 | |||
Third Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PHAR 5374: | Pharmacy Law and Ethics | 3 | |||
| PHAR 5275: | Pharmacy Practice VI | 2 | |||
| PCEU 6345: | Advanced Pharmaceutics II | 3 | |||
| PCEU Elective (#1) | 3 | ||||
| PHAR 5582: | Adv. Therapeutics II | 5 | |||
| PHAR 5255: | Pharmacy Skills Program VI | 2 | |||
| Total | 12 | 6 | |||
Third Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PHAR 5692: | Advanced Hospital Pharmacy (Clinical rotation 1) | 6 | |||
| PHAR 5693: | Advanced Community Pharmacy (Clinical rotation 2) | 6 | |||
| Total | 12 | ||||
Fourth Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCEU 6198: | Special Problems in Advanced Pharmacokinetics | 1 | |||
| PCEU elective (#2) | 3 | ||||
| PCEU 6142: | Pharmaceutics Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCEU 6342 : | Advanced Pharmaceutics I | 3 | |||
| PCEU 6180: | Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
Fourth Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PCOL 7370: | Scientific Writing | 3 | |||
| PCEU 6143: | Pharmaceutics Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCEU 7181: | Seminar | 1 | |||
| PCEU 6498: | Special Problems | 4 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
Fourth Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd | |||
| PHAR 5690: | Institutional Medicine Rotation (Clinical rotation 3) | 6 | |||
| PHAR 56XX | Clinical rotation 4 (Choose from list below) | 6 | |||
| Total | 12 | ||||
Fifth Year/Fall
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCEU elective (#3) | 3 | ||||
| PCEU 7142: | Pharmaceutics Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCEU 8498: | Doctoral Research | 4 | |||
| PHAR 5181: | Clinical Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 1 | 8 | |||
Fifth Year/Spring
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PCEU 7143: | Pharmaceutics Literature Review | 1 | |||
| PCEU 8798: | Doctoral Research* | 7 | |||
| PCEU 7181 : | Seminar | 1 | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
*Doctoral Research will fulfill the requirement for PHAR 5672 Clinical Pharmaceutical Research other Rotation #5.
Fifth Year/Summer
| Title | PharmD | Phd |
|||
| PHAR 56XX Clinical rotation 6 | 6 | ||||
| PHAR 56XX Clinical rotation 7 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 12 | ||||
This fulfills the requirements for the PharmD degree. Student
should graduates from PharmD program at the end of this summer semester,
and can officially enter into PhD program if admittance was conditional.
Sixth Year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Doctoral Research/Doctoral Dissertation | 24 hours/ year |
Seventh Year (Fall, Spring, Summer)
| Title | Hours |
| Doctoral Research/Doctoral Dissertation | 24 hours/ year |
Students are required to take 9 credit hours of electives. The courses below are are electives offered by the Department of Pharmacological & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Students are also encouraged to take courses in other departments or at other institutions to fulfill elective credits if those courses are more appropriate to their course of study.
| Elective Courses in Pharmaceutics or Pharmacology | Semester Offered |
| PCOL 6462 Cardiovascular and Renal Pharmacology | Spring, even years |
| PCOL 7362 Neuropharmacology | Spring, odd years |
| PCOL 7350 Cellular Pharmacology | Fall, even years |
| PCEU 7397 Selected Topics in Pharmaceutics | |
| PCEU 7350 Fundamental Laboratory Methods | Summer, even years |
| PCEU 7340 Advanced Drug Delivery Systems | Fall, even years |
Clinical Rotations
| Required Rotation | Hours |
| PHAR 5493 Introductory Community Pharmacy Rotation | 4 |
| Required Clinical Rotations | Hours |
| PHAR 5692 Advanced Hospital Pharmacy | 6 |
| PHAR 5690 Institutional Medicine | 6 |
| PHAR 5693 Advanced Community Pharmacy | 6 |
Choose three Clinical Specialty Elective Rotations from the following list to satisfy PharmD requirements:
| PHAR 5642 Emergency Medicine | 6 |
| PHAR 5643 Neurology | 6 |
| PHAR 5669 Renal Therapeutics | 6 |
| PHAR 5674 Nutritional Support | 6 |
| PHAR 5675 Disease State Management | 6 |
| PHAR 5676 Cell & Gene Therapeutics | 6 |
| PHAR 5677 Pharmacokinectics | 6 |
| PHAR 5678 Transplant Therapeutics | 6 |
| PHAR 5679 Women's Health Therapeutics | 6 |
| PHAR 5680 Oncology | 6 |
| PHAR 5681 Infectious Diseases | 6 |
| PHAR 5682 Surgery | 6 |
| PHAR 5683 Cardiology | 6 |
| PHAR 5684 Family Medicine | 6 |
| PHAR 5685 Critical Care | 6 |
| PHAR 5686 Psychiatry | 6 |
| PHAR 5691 Drug Information | 6 |
| PHAR 5694 Pediatrics | 6 |
| PHAR 5695 Geriatrics | 6 |
| PHAR 5696 Primary Care | 6 |
| PHAR 5675 Disease State Management | 6 |