Faculty Course Coordinator: LaDisa, Anne
Semester: Fall Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: W 7:30-9:20 (1st 8 weeks) in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This Applied Improvisation for Health Profession Students course is designed to use improvisational theater training exercises which have been adapted to health care to improve and strengthen health profession students’ communication and teamwork skills. Improvisation training is helpful for health professionals because excellent communication skills in healthcare are essential. Armed with strong patient-centered communication skills, students who complete this course will be poised to improve clinical outcomes, chronic disease management, and patient satisfaction while avoiding serious medical errors associated with communication breakdown.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Pickart, Michael
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: W 7:30-9:20 in PH149 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course will introduce basic techniques of modern biotechnology related to biological processes with emphasis on those salient to the realm of drug discovery and drug therapy. Applications to monoclonal antibody products, interferons, interleukins, vaccines, hematopoietic growth factors, and growth factors are included, along with gene knockout technology, in vivo fluorescent labeling, flow cytometry, and stem cells. Future prospects for utilization in organ replacement, gene therapy, and in utero cell repair are discussed.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Castillo, Uvi
Semester: Fall Credits: 3
Tentative time/location: TBD in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This experience is designed to allow students to study and experience the history, culture, and health beliefs of a developing country with a culture different from their own in order to expand their understanding of culture’s influence on the health care experience in another part of the world. The pre-trip will involve lectures, discussions and assignments that will help students to gain a better understanding of these attributes. Visiting the country will enable participants to get a firsthand view of the health care system available and potential roles of pharmacists during 1 week trip to the country. Pharmacists serve in diverse cultures, so the need for skills in cultural competence is important.This course provides the opportunity for “hands on” study of pharmacy (both traditional and modern) in the Japanese culture. Students will travel to meet with botanists, taxonomists, pharmacists, and farmers. Time in the classroom will focus on the pharmacology, physical chemistry, and ethnobotany of a variety of indigenous traditional remedies. The students will also be able to attend different department and school of pharmacy in Tokyo University, Chiba University, Kyoto University, Matsuyama University. The students will also be able to visit different hospitals at Tokyo University hospital, Chiba University Hospital, Kyoto University Hospital, Matsuyama University hospital and Niihama Rosei Hospital. The students will also be able to learn traditional Japanese medicine KAMPO, Chiba University, and Kyoto University. The students will also be able to visit different department historical sites such as the “Kinkaku-ji” or golden temple in Kyoto during the Spring.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Castillo, Uvi
Semester: Fall Credits: 3
Tentative time/location: TBD in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This experience is designed to allow students to study and experience the history, culture, and health beliefs of a developing country with a culture different from their own in order to expand their understanding of culture’s influence on the health care experience in another part of the world. The pre-trip will involve lectures, discussions and assignments that will help students to gain a better understanding of these attributes. Visiting the country will enable participants to get a firsthand view of the health care system available and potential roles of pharmacists during a 2 to 3 weeks trip to the country. Pharmacists serve in diverse cultures, so the need for skills in cultural competence is important. This course provides the opportunity for “hands on” study in the rainforest of Peru. Students will live on a reserve, and travel to meet with botanists, taxonomists, pharmacists, shamans, and farmers. Time in the classroom will focus on the pharmacology, physical chemistry, and ethnobotany of a variety of indigenous plants.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Laubach, Elizabeth
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: W 1:10-3:00 in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course will focus on the clinical management of the “poisoned” patient. Students will be exposed to the clinical presentation and treatment of patients experiencing toxicity from medications and biologicals. This course will review and reinforce the student’s knowledge of the fundamentals of pharmacology and toxicology. The course will re-emphasizing critical objectives with regard to mechanism of action, absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination in addition to chemical structure. Drug addiction pathophysiology and treatment will be presented.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Castillo, Uvi
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: M 7:30-9:20 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course is designed to familiarize the student with the identification, application, and evaluation of pharmaceutical products originating from natural sources. This will combine principles of basic science with pharmaceutical applications. Topics include: biodiversity and chemotaxonomy; biosynthesis; secondary metabolite-based drug development; social, legal, and harmful aspects of herbs and supplements; ethnopharmacology and cultural/traditional use of natural products. This course will provide students practical knowledge of the origins of medicines, so that they may better appreciate the complex world around them. The end goal is to engage students to learn in depth about ways nature is utilized to treat disease. This helps students to become more knowledgeable pharmacists and global citizens.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Lokken, James
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: M 3:10-5:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course is meant to provide additional opportunities for pharmacy students to develop skills and knowledge in providing pharmaceutical care to underserved patients. Healthcare professionals who have a limited understanding of caring for patients facing economic, cultural, geographic or linguistic barriers may carry negative attitudes and stereotypes toward those vulnerable populations. It is vital to teach students how to interact with diverse patients effectively, as well as appreciate the social, interpersonal, and individual differences that can influence how patients use medications to treat acute and chronic illnesses.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Peppard, Sarah
Semester: Fall Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: Th 3:10-4:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to concepts and topics related to the care of a critically ill patient. Through weekly lectures by course faculty and area content experts, students will gain exposure to the principles of hemodynamic monitoring as well as the pathophysiology and management of selected diseases affecting major organ systems and requiring intensive care therapy. Students will be asked to prepare in advance for the lecture topics and will have opportunities to apply their learning through a series of take-home patient case assignments. Prerequisite: none. 1 credit.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Peppard, Sarah
Semester: Fall Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: Th 4:10-5:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to further gain exposure and knowledge about the topics covered in PHAR 551 through critically evaluating key and/or controversial journal articles related to the weekly lecture topics. Students will have the opportunity to practice their literature evaluation and journal club facilitation skills as well. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in PHAR 551 Critical Care Pharmacy Practice is required for enrollment in this course.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Ray, Sarah
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: TH 3:10-5:00 in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Ambulatory care is a growing aspect of pharmacy practice. Pharmacy graduates are given the clinical knowledge to manage chronic conditions and to assess patients with complex medication regimens through skills gained in clinical courses. This course will help students to further develop their clinical problem-solving skills and introduce the practice management skills needed to develop and maintain and ambulatory care practice.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Fleischman, Megan
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: M 10:10-12:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: The Specialty Pharmacy Practice Elective course aims to prepare students for future interactions with the practice of specialty pharmacy. Our focus will center on three areas of this practice: 1. The structure of specialty pharmacy and the development of a referral based practice. 2. The construction of effective clinical arguments to support access to specialty pharmacy care. 3. Current events and the impact of future medication pipelines and the continued evolution of the specialty pharmacy model. This course will touch on multiple clinical areas such as Oncology, Multiple Sclerosis, HIV, Hepatitis C, Fertility, and Cholesterol Management and their impact in the specialty pharmacy arena. We will utilize a mix of lecture, simulation activities, student presentations, and clinical documentation activities to help prepare you for pharmacy careers directly within or outside this unique and rapidly growing segment of pharmacy practice.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Pickart, Michael
Semester: Fall Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: TBD in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This twice-monthly journal club serves to develop pharmacy students in the latest pharmaceutical science research and scholarship trends. Advanced reading and discussion skills of current pharmaceutical science literature will build skills useful for APPE rotations and practice settings and knowledge that can impact pharmacy practice. It will facilitate discussion of student ideas for scholarship projects and provide an opportunity for students to network with potential faculty mentors who will facilitate discussions. Students will be asked to prepare in advance and will be expected to come to journal club prepared to interact with the class and the facilitating faculty or student. Topics for discussion will be chosen based on CUW SOP faculty research, P3 and P4 Laboratory Research Pathway student projects, or other student interests.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Stremski, Ernest
Semester: Fall Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: T 3:10-5:00 in PH008 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course is intended to be an overview of the healthy, acutely ill, and chronic - complex pediatric patient. A focus of this course will be the preventative and supporting pharmaceutical therapies used in managing these types of patients. The approach taken will be by age group and discuss pharmaceutical management in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. Age groups covered will include fetal, preterm, term infant, toddlers, preschool, school age, and teenage.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Fehrenbacher, Lynne
Semester: Fall Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: TH 8:30-9:20 in PH026 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This once-weekly seminar series serves to introduce timely Infectious Diseases (ID) Pharmacotherapy topics to the student, and it will facilitate a more detailed discussion of select ID conditions. The role of the pharmacist in ID state management will be emphasized using an interactive Grand Rounds type format. Students will be asked to prepare in advance and will be expected come to seminar with analytical questions for the speaker. In addition to presentations by CUW SOP faculty members, local expert pharmacists will present in their areas of expertise. Students will be assessed based upon participation and targeted assignments that correlate with select seminar presentations. Students will also complete a service project as part of this elective course.
Faculty Course Coordinator: various
Semester: Fall Credits: 1-3
Tentative time/location: TBD in tbd (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Also often referred to as independent study, a student and faculty pair submit a learning plan for self-directed, small group learning throughout the semester. Typical load is 45 hours of effort per credit. Requires consent instructor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. For more information, contact Dr. Mike Brown at michael.brown@cuw.edu
Faculty Course Coordinator: Peppard, Sarah
Semester: Fall Credits: 4
Tentative time/location: 10:10-12:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: During the elective semesters of the experiential education curriculum, students will continue to explore and experience the roles and responsibilities of a professional pharmacist. Students will participate in the practice of pharmacy with pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare providers and will apply knowledge obtained in the required curriculum. The course will consist of longitudinal off-campus rotation experiences in a variety of pharmacy practices, as well as on-campus discussions.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Jobe, Brenda
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: M 1:30-3:20 in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course provides an overview of a variety of complementary therapies outside the realm of conventional medical options used in the United States. Content includes alternative, manipulative, biologically based, energy therapy mind/body interventions.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Burlage, Robert
Semester: Spring Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: T 3:10-5:00 in PH47 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Public Health Microbiology describes the methods that industrialized countries use to ensure the safety of their populations from infectious disease. Topics covered include water and wastewater treatment, food microbiology, vaccines, sexually transmitted diseases, biostatistics, and epidemiology.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Reid, Terry
Semester: Spring Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: M 5:10-7:00 in PH149 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: The course will introduce graduate students to the processes involved in research design. This class will introduce the approach to generating a research question, conducting scientific inquiry (i.e. Literature Review), choosing a research design methodology that adequately addresses the research question, data collection and management methods, sound approaches to optimize the reproducibility of research and reporting relevant to basic pharmaceutical sciences, social/behavioral, and health services research. We will also discuss the purpose of review bodies such as IRB and IACUC. Lastly, we will discuss guiding principles of conducting ethical research. At the end of the course, each student should develop a research proposal that must be approved by a faculty mentor and evaluated by the course coordinators.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Murack, Patrick
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: M 7:30-9:20 in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Veterinary Pharmacy Practice is an elective course designed to give students the opportunity to learn the basics of veterinary pharmacotherapy. The course will provide as a foundation for clinical practice where pharmacists are increasingly asked to dispense medications for dogs, cats, and other common household animals. The course will cover commonly used veterinary medications as well as human medications commonly used in veterinary medicine..
Faculty Course Coordinator: Pickart, Michael
Semester: Spring Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: W 1:10-3:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Driven by advances in genomics technology and the resultant increased capacity to understand an individual’s genetic make-up, the emerging field of pharmacogenomics is increasingly informing clinical therapeutics and future drug design. This course is designed to provide students with an improved understanding of the complexities in identifying clinically significant genetic variation to predict the right choice and dose of medications for an individualized approach to medicine. Toward this end, the course will examine genetic principles and genomic technologies facilitating pharmacogenetic advances. Students will advance their knowledge of specific genetic principles inherent to non-disease states, disease states, ethnicity, and other factors known to impact drug response and individual patient outcomes. As the course advances, students will be guided to apply this knowledge to pharmacy practice through readings from the current literature, design of practice plans, and other relevant activities that will lead to an advanced understanding of how genetic variation influences pharmacologic principles, e.g. dose-response relationships and metabolism, and diseases including cardiovascular, CNS, hematologic, and immune systems as well as cancer. Consideration of the limitations of pharmacogenomics and ethical issues will also provide a complete perspective of the current and future impact of this important field.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Laubach, Elizabeth
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: TH 7:30-8:20 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course will focus on the clinical management of the poisoned or otherwise toxic patient through a series of selected cases. Students will be exposed to the clinical presentation and treatment of patients experiencing toxicity from medications, chemicals, and biologicals. This course will review and reinforce the student’s knowledge of the fundamentals of pharmacology and toxicology, and medical literature evaluation. The course will re-emphasize critical objectives with regard to mechanism of action, absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, in addition to clinical practice and treatment.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Buckley, Beth
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: M 10:10-12:00 (1st 8 weeks) in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course is designed to enhance and expand student’s knowledge base, empathy, and ability to effectively work with people with diabetes through hands on learning and personal experience with the cornerstones of Diabetes Management. The class approach will have each student participate in the management of diabetes as a patient and a pharmacist. Student activities will include: attending education classes on the basics of diabetes care, self-recording various aspects of their daily lifestyle including food and exercise log, daily intake of “placebo” medications, blood glucose monitoring, and injection of placebo insulin (injections are 2 weeks of the class with the option of wearing a placebo insulin pump). Students will also get a firsthand experience of motivational interview and goal setting.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Burditt, Cara
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: W 3:10-5:00 (first 8 weeks) in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Advanced Oncology Seminar is a seminar-based course that will provide an overview of the unique aspects of oncology pharmacy practice. Students will also gain experience in providing oncology care through completion of a longitudinal educational project. Students will learn about the complex issues facing patients with cancer and gain insight into providing care as an oncology pharmacy specialist.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Pickart, Michael
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: TBD in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This twice-monthly journal club serves to develop pharmacy students in the latest pharmaceutical science research and scholarship trends. Advanced reading and discussion skills of current pharmaceutical science literature will build skills useful for APPE rotations and practice settings and knowledge that can impact pharmacy practice. It will facilitate discussion of student ideas for scholarship projects and provide an opportunity for students to network with potential faculty mentors who will facilitate discussions. Students will be asked to prepare in advance and will be expected to come to journal club prepared to interact with the class and the facilitating faculty or student. Topics for discussion will be chosen based on CUW SOP faculty research, P3 and P4 Laboratory Research Pathway student projects, or other student interests.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Altenberger, Holly
Semester: Spring Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: 10:10-12:00 in ZOOM (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course builds on concepts and topics from required coursework related to the care of the elderly patient. Expert guest lecturers, a broad variety of topics, and active learning techniques such as small group discussion, case evaluations, and simulation will be utilized to enhance the learning experience. The course will address general principles of aging and geriatric assessment skills, pharmacotherapy of selected disease states and syndromes common in the senior population, as well as other pertinent issues related to geriatric care. Additionally, students will complete a project in which course content and skills will be applied to patients in the community.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Rinka, Joseph
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: M 10:10-12:00 (last 8 weeks) in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course is designed to enhance and expand students knowledge base in cardiology topics. This course will build upon the knowledge base obtained in pharmacotherapy and medical literature evaluation courses. Student will utilize literature evaluation skills to prepare a formulary review of a pipeline drug, perform weekly journal club preparation, prepare an abstract for a potential research protocol, and write a drug information question. Weekly lectures will focus on unique cardiology conditions that are not covered in depth in the core curriculum. In addition, students will be learning the basics of electrocardiogram interpretation through weekly study.
Faculty Course Coordinator: various
Semester: Spring Credits: 1-3
Tentative time/location: TBD in tbd (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: Also often referred to as independent study, a student and faculty pair submit a learning plan for self-directed, small group learning throughout the semester. Typical load is 45 hours of effort per credit. Requires consent instructor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. For more information, contact Dr. Mike Brown at michael.brown@cuw.edu
Faculty Course Coordinator: Dutzy, Joseph
Semester: Spring Credits: 2
Tentative time/location: W 1:10-3:00 in PH132 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This elective course serves to build upon mental health knowledge learned in Pharmacotherapy IV (Phar 550) and to develop an even broader knowledge base of psychiatric and neurologic disease states. Lecture time will be divided between direct instruction and case based learning. Students will learn to apply psychopharmacologic and therapeutic management strategies to treat these disorders through the use of interactive patient cases and clinical scenarios. Other methods of teaching and learning (videos, literature evaluation, patient counseling, expert panels, etc.) may also be used to illustrate key points and present material. Prerequisite: Successful completion or remediation of Pharmacotherapy I-IV & Pharmacology I-III or consent of Course Coordinator.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Buckley, Beth
Semester: Spring Credits: 1
Tentative time/location: TBD in TBD (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to further gain exposure and knowledge on the clinical management of complex cases involving persons with diabetes through a series of case discussions, and review of various available resources and perspectives via websites, online blogs, journal articles, and other sources of diabetes education to help inform decision making. This course will review and reinforce the student’s knowledge of the foundations and applications of pharmacotherapy, guideline approaches to patient care, assessment of social determinants of health, and medical literature evaluation.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Theesfeld, Melissa
Semester: Spring Credits: 4
Tentative time/location: T 3:10-5:00 in PH147 (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: During the elective semesters of the experiential education curriculum, students will continue to explore and experience the roles and responsibilities of a professional pharmacist. Students will participate in the practice of pharmacy with pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare providers and will apply knowledge obtained in the required curriculum. The course will consist of longitudinal off-campus rotation experiences in a variety of pharmacy practices, as well as on-campus discussions.
Faculty Course Coordinator: Theesfeld, Melissa
Semester: Spring Credits: 4
Tentative time/location: 3:10-5:00 in (CUW portal has official time and location information)
Course Description: During the elective semesters of the experiential education curriculum, students will continue to explore and experience the roles and responsibilities of a professional pharmacist. Students will participate in the practice of pharmacy with pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare providers and will apply knowledge obtained in the required curriculum. The course will consist of longitudinal off-campus rotation experiences in a variety of pharmacy practices, as well as on-campus discussions.