| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 421 | Pharmaceutical Marketing | 3 hours. | Introduction to the field of marketing with specific emphasis on pharmaceuticals and the marketing of pharmacy services. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 426 | Pharmacoepidemiology | 2 hours. | Provides an introduction to pharmacoepidemiology and key concepts and principles that are unique to the study of medications in large populations. Same as EPID 426. Prerequisite(s): EPID 400 or EPID 403 or consent of the instructor. Priority in enrollement is given to graduate students in the health sciences. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 470 | Managed Care Pharmacy | 3 hours. | Professional development in managed care pharmacy to learn history, administrative and policy aspects, network with operational managers and leaders in field, visit managed care sites and observe activies of managed care pharmacists. Prerequisite(s): Third year standing in the Doctor of Pharmacy program or second year standing in the Doctor of Pharmacy program with consent of the instructor, or graduate standing in pharmacy. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 482 | Professional Practice Management | 3 hours. | Managerial functions of the pharmacist in all practice environments with emphasis on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling of resources. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 484 | Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis | 3 hours. | The course will discuss the concepts, process, and statistical methods required to perform a systematic review or meta-analysis of a large body of empirical findings. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisitie(s): EPID 400 or BSTT 400 and PHAR 355 or PMAD 502 or graduate or professional standing or consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 494 | Special Topics in Pharmacy Administration | 1 TO 3 hours. | Topics will vary,including the on-going analysis of contemporary issues associated with delivery, financing and management of pharmaceutical products and professional services. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 502 | Research Methods in Pharmacy Administration | 4 hours. | Overview of the research process in the social, behavioral, and economic pharmaceutical sciences from problem identification and conceptualization through data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and consent of the instructor is required for non-departmental students. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 507 | Pharmacy and Its Environment | 2 hours. | Factors directly influencing the practice of pharmacy. Roles of the pharmacist as affected by contemporary organizational, legislative societal and fiscal environments. Prerequisite(s): Admission into the M.S. or Ph.D. in Pharmacy Program. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 510 | Problems in Pharmacy Management | 3 hours. | Selective managerial problems relative to pharmacy practice. Field work involves data collection based on individual and group models of the managerial decision process. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 482 or the equivalent. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 525 | Medication, Identity and Illness | 3 hours. | Examines the role of pharmaceutical care and medication-taking in the social context of chronic illness. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in PMAD 321 or consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 535 | Health Policy and Pharmaceutical Care | 3 hours. | History of the organization, financing and delivery of American health care with regulatory controls and reform proposals covering drug approval, manufacturing, marketing, use, and safety. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 573 | Principles of Economic Evaluations of Health Care Interventions | 3 hours. | Principles, models and practical methods for the economic evaluation of health care services with an emphasis on pharmaceutical care. Same as HPA 573. Previously listed as PMAD 571. Prerequisite(s): HPA 460; and Graduate standing; and consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 575 | Educational Instruction and Practice in Pharmacy Administration | 2 hours. | Designed to develop teaching skills and improve instructional abilities. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 577 | Applied Population Health Survey Research | 3 hours. | Development of computer programming skills and knowledge of statistical techniques for analyzing population health survey data. Credit is not given for PMAD 577 if the student has credit in BSTT 507 or CHSC 447 or STAT 431 or STAT 531 or STAT 532. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Restricted to graduate students in the Health Sciences Colleges. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 579 | Advanced Methods in Outcomes Research and Grant Writing | 3 hours. | An advanced graduate-level course focused on the grant writing strategies with an emphasis on methodologies relevant to health services, economics and outcomes research. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 502 and PMAD 573; or consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 580 | Advanced Decision Analysis Techniques I | 2 hours. | Exposes students to advanced decision analysis and related sensitivity analysis methodologies. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 573 and consent of the instructor. Priority enrollment is provided to graduate students in the Health Science Colleges and the Department of Economics, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and those enrolled in the MBA program, College of Business Administration. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 581 | Advanced Decision Analysis Techniques II | 1 hours. | The purpose will be to gain experience using techniques germane to the advanced decision analysis and related sensitivity analysis methodologies taught in PMAD 580. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 580 and consent of the instructor. Priority enrollment is provided to graduate students in the Health Science Colleges and the Department of Economics, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and those enrolled in the MBA program, College of Business Administration. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 594 | Special Topics in Pharmacy Administration | 1 TO 3 hours. | Topics vary. Intensive analysis of contemporary issue(s) associated with delivery and financing of pharmaceutical products and professional services. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 595 | Departmental Seminar | 1 hours. | Presentation by students, faculty and visiting experts. Topics to be arranged. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 596 | Independent Study | 1 TO 4 hours. | Individual research under direction of a member of the faculty. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 502 or consent of the instructor. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 597 | Pharmacy Administration Project | 0 TO 6 hours. | Supervised literature-based scholarship and/or research in pharmacy administration. Selected problems or issues in social, behavioral, or economic pharmaceutical sciences are investigated under the direction of the faculty advisor. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): PMAD 502. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 598 | Master's Thesis Research | 0 TO 16 hours. | Independent research on topic approved by student's graduate committee. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the committee. Open only to degree candidates. |
| Pharmacy Administration | PMAD | 599 | Ph.D. Thesis Research | 0 TO 16 hours. | Independent research on topic approved by student's graduate committee. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the committee. Open only to degree candidates. |