This course provides an educational framework to assist and guide the student to complete a capstone project that integrates the skills acquired by the student within the pathway curriculum.

• Flex Units: 1 minimum to 7 maximum units/quarter for a minimum of 3 quarters
• 9 total units required

This seminar provides an accompaniment to the pathway practicum. Students will discuss the progress of their research and receive feedback from faculty and other students.

• Year 3, Winter
• Year 4, Fall, Winter
• 1 unit

Students will examine innovation and entrepreneurship within the context of the evolving healthcare marketplace. They will acquire planning tools and management skills to develop and negotiate organizational and business solutions.

• Year 4, Fall
• 3 units

This course covers the basic concepts and methods of epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology and the investigation of public health problems. Topics include sampling, research designs, measures of disease frequency and association, bias/threats to validity and methods for analyzing epidemiologic data. As of fall 2004, this course is offered every other year, so 3rd- and 4th-year PHPM pathway students will take the course together.

• Year 3 or Year 4, Fall
• 2 units

This intermediate course in applied statistics concentrates on techniques useful for pharmacists working in clinical pharmacy research, operations management, and policy. Topics include multivariate analysis, prediction versus estimation, survival analysis, analysis of highly non-normal data, such as costs of episodes of care, multiple endpoints and subgroup analysis. The course includes lectures and instructor-led computer workshops.

• Year 4, Fall
• 4 units

Decisionmaking involves weighing benefits, risks and costs of therapeutic and policy alternatives. Students will learn expected value decision analysis. The emphasis of the required project will be either technology assessment, particularly cost-effectiveness analysis, or an optimization of therapeutic strategies. This course is offered as an alternative to CP198 Risk Management.

• Fall
• 3 units

This course is open to selected students from the School of Pharmacy and the Hastings College of the Law. It is offered as an alternative to CP 158 Decision Analysis. Risk Management focuses on recent initiatives by the United States FDA in addressing safety and health communication issues related to pharmaceutical products. A foundation in drug law and regulations for prescription and over-the-counter medicines will be provided, with emphasis on case examples and advisory committee decision-making. Students are expected to participate in team-developed presentations to classmates in preparation for a mock advisory committee meeting. Students will also work in teams to develop a formal Citizen Petition for submission to FDA or similar document to another national or state government agency.

• Fall
• 3 units