UCSF School of Pharmacy

Year 1 Spring Courses

Key to Course Abbreviations

• BPS 113 Drug Delivery Systems: This course will introduce student pharmacists to the various routes and delivery systems for administration of drugs.
  Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in BPS 114 and 115 or permission of the instructor.
  Lecture: 2 hours. 2 units
  Course Director: Dr. Frank Szoka, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
• CP 113 Pharmacy Practice III: Students are exposed to a variety of pharmacy practice environments, including parenteral products and infusion devices, alternative medicine and continue with the therapeutics of non-prescription products and career opportunities.
  Lecture: 2 hours. Conference: 1 hour. Workshop: 1.5 hours. 3 units
  Course Director: Dr. Shareen El-Ibiary, Department of Clinical Pharmacy
• BPS 114 Bioinformatics: This course is an introduction to bioinformatics and other informatics resources for student pharmacists. The goal is to familiarize students with primary informatics resources for research and patient information and to introduce them to fundamentals of human health from the perspective of the human genome and related projects.
  Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in BPS 114 and 115 or permission of the instructor.
  Lecture: 1.5 hours. Lab: 3 hours (5 weeks only). 2 units
  Course Director: Dr. Patsy Babbitt, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
• BPS 115 Genetics & Pharmacogenetics: This course will introduce student pharmacists to the basic principles of genetics and apply them to pharmacogenetics.
  Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in BPS 114 and 115 or permission of the instructor.
  Lecture: 2 hours. 2 units
  Course Director: Dr. Su Guo, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
• Anatomy 116 Gross Anatomy: A study of the macroscopic structure of the human body by means of lectures and dissections. Functional aspects of the structures are stressed. Intended for students in the School of Pharmacy.
  Lecture: 2 hours. Laboratory: 3 hours. 3 units
  Course Director: (to be announced) , Department of Anatomy
• PC 114 Drug Metabolism This course provides an introduction to the concepts of pharmaceutical chemistry with specific applications in the area of drug metabolism, drug disposition and drug toxicity.
  Lecture: 3 hours. 3 units
  Course Director: Dr. Paul Ortiz de Montellano, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• CP 119 Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences
  Introductory pharmacy practice experiences (IPPEs) in a variety of programs in PharmD courses, settings affiliated with the School of Pharmacy, and/or approved community service projects (e.g., health education and screening events).
  Various settings. 0 units
  Course Director: Dr. Donald T. Kishi, Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Next Quarter: Year 2 Fall