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Honors Program - Pharmacy


The College of Pharmacy Honors Program, UT Austin

Honors Program Electives
July, 2003


Fall elective offerings

PHR 270C: Communication Skills for Health Professionals - Dr. Erickson            
Prereq: none
Offered: fall
This course emphasizes oral communication skills for health professionals, including pharmacy, pre-medicine, pre-dental, and nursing. From small to large group presentations, development of better oral communication skills will be emphasized as a key to greater personal and professional confidence.

PHR 280W: Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice and Drug Treatment of Mental Disorders - Dr. Mican      
Prereq: PHR 375E (Pharmacotherapeutics IIa) or consent of instructor
Offered: Fall
Advanced study in the pathophysiology of selected psychiatric disease states and the clinical presentation, phenomenology, diagnosis and treatment of these disease states.


PHR 384S: Introduction to Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology - Dr. Wilson

Prereq: Graduate standing; with consent of instructor, may be taken by students in the professional pharmacy curriculum with consent of instructor.

Offered: Fall

Principles of epidemiology; descriptive, analytic, and clinical epidemiology; epidemiologic perspective for health care management; epidemiology and the public policy process; pharmacoepidemiology.

PHR 185D: Responsible Conduct of Science - Dr. Gonzales      
Prereq: Honors Program - concurrent enrollment with PHR 479H.
Offered:Fall
Pass/Fail basis only.


Spring elective offerings

PHR 322H: Research Design and Methodology - team taught by Pharmacy Administration faculty
Prereq: consent of instructor or admission to the Honors Program
Offered: Spring
This course will cover the concepts and procedures involved with designing and carrying out a research project. Meets with PHR 390K.

PHR 380F: Biomedical Pharmacolgy - pharmacology faculty (Dr. VanDenBerg) Prereq: third professional year standing or permission of instructor
Offered: Spring only
Drug classifications, mechanisms of drug action, drug side effects/adverse reactions in humans, the use of drugs in research.

PHR 280U: Case Studies in Emerging Infections - Dr. Davis      
Prereq: Pharmacotherapy I series
Offered: Spring only
Case study approach toward the analysis and management of emerging, resurgent and cycling infectious diseases.

PHR 382V: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology- Dr. Croyle

Prereq: Graduate standing; and the following coursework: Chemistry 339K, and Pharmacy 342C (or 442C), 142P, 352C (or 452C), and 152P; or the equivalent; or consent of instructor.

Offered: Spring only

Applications of protein, oligonucleotide, and related molecules as therapeutic agents: stability, formulation, kinetics, dynamics. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.

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