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Courses: Clinical Sciences and Administration, Pharmacy Administration (PHCA)

6198:6298:6398:6498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6180:6181: Seminar in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 1. (1-0). This course is intended to provide the recent advances in Pharmacy Administration literature and develop the students understanding of the pharmacy profession.

6219: Issues in Health Services
Cr. 2. (2-0). A survey course for students with an administrative interest, which develops the linkage between structure, manpower, access, and utilization of health services.

6301: Financial and Managerial Accounting and Managerial Finance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course provides a broad overview of both financial and managerial accounting as well as theories and application of managerial finance.

6305: Pharmacy Administration and Management I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Introduces the concept of pharmacy administration with a detailed description of research issues. Emphasis will be on historical issues pharmacists have faced and the role of pharmacy managers in health care systems. A case-based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading material.

6306: Pharmacy Administration and Management II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6305, graduate standing or consent of instructor. Discussion on recent advances in pharmacy administration and management. Topics include third party billing, personnel management, strategic management, marketing pharmacy programs, risk management, drug use management. A case based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading material.

6307: Research Methods in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6308, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Principles of research methods and its application to conduct and analyze research topics in pharmacy administration. Included are computer applications, design of survey questionnaires, and proficiency in analyzing programs/policies.

6308: Biostatistics and Experimental Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Applications of experimental design techniques and statistical methods in health care and pharmacy, including topics such as hypothesis testing, contingency tables, correlation, regression, and analysis of variance.

6309: Principles and Practice of Community Health
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Applications and analysis of public health concepts, history, current context, and techniques in pharmacy administration.

6310: SAS Applications in Statistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Practical experiences in conducting statistical analysis using the SAS statistical package to analyze, evaluate, and report data.

6311: Financial Aspects of Health Care Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course examines both micro and macro aspects of financial management of health care systems. Approaches to financial record keeping, financial analysis and budgeting will be reviewed. Financial policies implemented by governmental and private third parties will be critically analyzed.

6312: Pharmacoeconomics in Outcomes Research
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course focuses on the economic methods used in evaluating drug therapy decisions. The course will cover the tools needed to assess the costs and outcomes of medications and pharmacy services. Emphasis will be on disease-state management issues with examples from pharmaceutical outcomes research.

6313: Drug Use Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course focuses on the means by which the pharmacy program can fulfill its mission to assure the appropriate prescribing and patient use of drug therapy. Emphasis will be on the responsibilities and role of the pharmacy manager. Laws, regulations and ethical issues involved with the drug use management process will be examined.

6314: Health Systems Management in Managed Care
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Comprehensive review and discussion of health system strategic management, managed care concepts, changing health care paradigms, and marketing of services as part of a strategic plan for health care activities.

6315: Healthcare Marketing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Review of marketing concepts, techniques, and strategies. Introduces theories and models for interpretation and prediction of buyers' motives, attitudes, and responses and integrates information into marketing strategies. Addresses strategic planning for effective market problems and effective direction and control of marketing operations.

6316: Pharmacoepidemiology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course focuses on the economic methods used in evaluating drug therapy decisions. The course will cover the tolls needed to assess the costs and outcomes of medications and pharmacy services. Emphasis will be on disease-state management issues with examples from pharmaceutical outcomes research.

6317: Secondary Data Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Principles and applications of secondary data analysis in pharmacy administration research with focus on methodologies for processing and analyzing national survey and administrative data.

6396: Pharmacoepidemiology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Project proposal approved by major advisor and two committee members. Project developed in the area of pharmacy administration research.

6405: Pharmacy Economics
Cr. 4. (4-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course focuses on cost benefit, cost-utility analysis, and other methods of decision analysis. Included are issues related to outcomes measures and their analysis. Emphasis is on the evaluation of alternative health programs.

6406: Drug Use Management/Pharmacy/ Laws and Regulations
Cr. 4. (4-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course focuses on the means by which the pharmacy program can fulfill its mission to assure the appropriate prescribing and patient use of drug therapy. Emphasis will be on the responsibilities and role of the pharmacy manager. Laws, regulations and ethical issues involved with the drug use management process will be examined.

6407: Research Methods in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Principles of research design and its application to conduct and analyze research topics in pharmacy administration. Included are computer applications, design of survey questionnaires, and proficiency in analyzing programs/policies. Students are expected to complete a research proposal and present it.

6399:7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

7180: Seminar in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review and evaluate recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and the pharmacy profession.

7181: Seminar in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review and evaluate recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and the pharmacy profession.

7199: Master's Thesis
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.

7299: Master's Thesis
Cr. 2. (2-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.

7301: Regression Analysis and Methods in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6308, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Applications of multiple regression methods, regression diagnostics, variable selection, model building strategies, and assessment of model fit in pharmacy administration research with emphasis on linear, logistic, and proportional hazards regression.

7302: Scientific Writing and Grantsmanship
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6307, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Planning, preparation and evaluation of effective research manuscripts (articles) and grant proposals in pharmacy administration research.

7303: International Health Care Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review delivery models, economic, political, and other pertinent aspects of various international health care systems in an effort to better understand the range of options available for health care delivery.

7304: Advanced Pharmacoeconomic Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6312, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Advanced topics in computer-assisted decision analytic modeling including design of design trees, sensitivity analysis, Markov, Bayesian, and run-time models with examples in pharmaceutical and pharmacy research.

7310: Pharmacy Administration Teaching Practicum
Cr. 3. (0-9). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. A structured academic environment experience to prepare and teach lectures in an undergraduate course with the guidance of a professor.

7311: Research Practicum
Cr. 3. (0-9). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.

7396: Master's Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6396 or consent of instructor. Preparation of written report about pharmacy administration project and oral defense to major advisor and two committee members. Bound report submitted to committee.

7611: Research Practicum
Cr. 3. (0-18). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.

8180: Advanced Seminar in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review and assess recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and research.

8181: Advanced Seminar in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review and assess recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and research.

8198: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Doctoral Dissertation Research.

8199: Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Doctoral Dissertation Defense.

8298: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Cr. 2. (0-6). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Doctoral Dissertation Research.

8301: Pharmacy Administration and Management III
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6305 and PHCA 6306, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Discuss and appraise models and theories in pharmacy administration and management research focusing on social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care.

8302: Advanced Research Design in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6316 and PHCA 6307, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Review and evaluate advanced study design and analytical issues in pharmacy administration research with focus on scientific issues in conducting quasi-experimental and longitudinal study designs.

8303: Multivariate Analysis and Methods in Pharmacy Administration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHCA 6308 and PHCA 7301 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Advanced statistical techniques for handling multiple dependent and independent measures in pharmacy administration research such as factor analysis, multiple discriminant analysis, MANOVA, cluster analysis, canonical correlation, and structural equation modeling.

8304: Behavioral Health Services Research
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Applications of linking research questions common in behavioral sciences to appropriate analytic methods used to group people or objects and procedures that assess change over time.

8305: Risk Adjustment of Health Care Outcomes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Interpret and apply patient risk factors, the Donabedian model, administrative and clinical data sources, comparisons across providers, propensity scoring, and estimating the effect of interventions in observational studies.

8306: Advanced Pharmaceutical Marketing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Advanced pharmaceutical companies concepts and practices to market pharmaceuticals with emphasis on DTCA and physician detailing and new strategies used to market prescription and OTC products.

8310: Advanced Teaching Practicum
Cr. 3. (0-9). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. A structured academic environment experience to develop and teach lectures in a graduate course with the guidance of a professor.

8311: Proposal Development
Cr. 3. (0-9). Prerequisites: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Applications of grant writing skills to develop and submit a proposal using the NIH format.

8398: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Cr. 1. (0-9). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Doctoral Dissertation Research.

8698: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Cr. 1. (0-18). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Doctoral Dissertation Research.