Skill Sets Earned

Pharmaceutical Health Policy & Management Pathway

Skill Sets Earned

The low student/faculty ratio and tailored curriculum of the Pharmaceutical Health Policy & Management (PHPM) Pathway offers a special opportunity for students to acquire an important skill set offered by the Pathway experience.

While new skills can be acquired throughout the School's curriculum, the PHPM Pathway offers the PHPM Practicum.

The PHPM Practicum is a one-year integrated requirement of the PHPM pathway accounting for a minimum of a total of 12 units, and includes:

The Practicum Seminar Series (3 units)
The Practicum Research Project (9 units) -- a unique "hands on" experience for each pathway student through a required health service research project or health policy research project.

As a PHPM student, you should be able to apply skills gained in your other required pathway courses, create an "end product" (e.g., publication), and make contacts for potential employment after graduation.

Among the skills sets you should be able to acquire are:

Leadership	Development of leadership qualities and skills to become an innovative, entrepreneurial, and successful professional with exceptional organizational & communication skills.
Health Policy	An understanding of the structure of the health care system and policy making process.
Health Economics	The ability to apply economic theory and research design and analysis, as a basis for decision making in pharmaceutical care.
Epidemiology	The ability to apply the principles, research design, and application of epidemiology to health policy and management decisions.
Health Services Research	The ability to undertake behavioral research design and outcomes analysis, including evaluation of patient quality of life.
Advanced Statistics	The ability to apply the principles, theory and application of statistics in health research and policy.
Decision Analysis	An understanding of the complexity of healthcare issues and challenges and the ability to apply analytical tools to improve decision making.
Information Management	An ability to undertake database development and management including the use of large health-related databases to answer health questions.
Management Theory	An ability to apply the processes for budgeting and financing, as well as the methods for output analysis, quality control, human resource development, program marketing, and management policy development.

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