UCSF School of Pharmacy

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, 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. 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

Decision making 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 every other year, so 3rd- and 4th-year PHPM pathway students will take the course together.

• Year 3 or Year 4, Fall
• 3 units