LECOM Erie School of Pharmacy
Drug Information I and II - 4 Credit Hours
The structure of a drug information center as well as the role and functions of a drug
information pharmacist will be reviewed. The students will be familiarized with the skills
required to handle different types of drug information questions. Technology will be fully
utilized.
Introduction to Health Care Delivery - 3 Credit Hours
An overview of
the basic structures and operations of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. Course topics will
provide knowledge and insight into its historical origins; the changing roles of the components
of the system; and the technical, economic, political and social forces responsible for these
changes.
Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences - 3 Credit Hours
This course
is optimally designed for first-year pharmacy students to teach them basic concepts and topics
about the basic chemistry, physical-chemical properties of drugs, the role and influence of
acid/base theory, bioenergetics and thermodynamics. The deficiency in acid/base, fluid,
electrolyte and their clinical correlation will be emphasized, too. This course will also
integrate important concepts from the physical pharmacy areas of specialization to illustrate
design and development of traditional drug-dosage forms as well as novel drug delivery systems
used currently in pharmacy practice.
Introduction to Pharmacy - 3.5 Credit Hours
The student will be introduced to the profession, while covering the history of the pharmacy
profession, patient-centered care concepts, medical terminology, the delivery of patient-centered
care and the forces driving the direction of the profession. Team learning and team dynamics will
be emphasized as well as communication skills.
Pharmaceutics I - 4 Credit Hours
This course will cover and integrate applied drug-delivery principles in the design, development,
manufacture and stability of safe and effective pharmaceutical dosage forms and finished drug
products. Specific topics/concepts will focus on the physical, chemical and biological principles
essential for understanding basic pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery
systems. The topics/concepts will include the design, formulation and manufacturing of various
pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Microbiology with lab - 4 Credit Hours
This course
is a comprehensive introduction to bacteria, viruses and fungi. The laboratory is an integral and
important part of this course, providing the basic skills needed to work with bacteria; including:
proper use of the microscope; how to prepare stained slides; aseptic technique for transfer and
inoculation of bacteria; and how to use various media to select, isolate and characterize
bacteria.
Biochemistry I - 3 Credit Hours
A study of the structure function and
interactions of molecules found in biological systems: amino acids, peptides and proteins,
nucleotides and nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and hybrid molecules.
Effective
Communication in Pharmacy Practice - 2 Credit Hours
This course is competency-based and
is designed to provide students with an opportunity to observe, learn and apply various
professional skills that are essential for effective professional communication. Techniques to
improve individual student performance will be taught during group practicing sessions.
Immunology - 2 Credit Hours
A study of the organization, function and clinical
significance of the immune system.
Pharmaceutical Calculations - 2.5 Credit Hours
This required course will cover various aspects of pharmaceutical calculations to provide the
student with an understanding of what the practice of pharmacy will require of them as
practitioners when presented with patient prescriptions or medication orders.
Pharmaceutical Calculations Lab - 1 Credit Hour
This course is focused on
discussing and learning to prepare various extemporaneously compounded dosage forms while
fulfilling all legal requirements. In some instances, the pharmacist will not only be required to
calculate patient doses, but also compound various types of prescriptions. The calculations
laboratory will provide students with experience in weighing, measuring, preparing, dissolving,
diluting and other practical experiences that are necessary for dispensing and compounding. The
knowledge gained in Pharmaceutics I and Pharmaceutical Calculations is essential for completing
laboratory exercises.
Pharmaceutics II - 4 Credit Hours
This course provides
students with a qualitative and quantitative overview of drug disposition and the processes
important to disposition, namely, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. It is
anticipated that students will learn how to calculate various pharmacokinetic parameters that are
important to the therapeutic use of drugs. Finally, by understanding and calculating the impact of
various factors on drug disposition, students will develop an understanding of how therapeutic
dosing may be modified.
Physiology and Anatomy I with lab - 3.5 Credit Hours
A study of the basic principles of human physiology and anatomy. Emphasis will be placed on the
nervous and cardiovascular systems.
Biochemistry II - 3 Credit Hours
The
spotlight of Biochemistry II will be biosynthesis of carbohydrate, lipids and steroids; the
molecular transmission of the genetic information; the structure of chromosomes and genes;
replication and transcription of DNA; protein synthesis; receptors and signal transduction; and
gene repair, mutation, recombination and cloning. Biochemisty II will also highlight the
production of major biotechnology and pharmaceutical products, including antibiotics and gene
therapy.
Over the Counter Medications - 4 Credits Hours
This course will
integrate pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, pathophysiology and therapeutics to provide the
necessary information for the pharmaceutical care management of various disease states that
patients can self-treat. This includes disease assessment, treatment and product selection
recommendations, patient counseling and disease/drug therapy monitoring.
Pharmacist Provided Care - 2 Credit Hours
Pharmacist Provided Care is designed to
enhance the student’s baseline clinical skills before entering the Pharmacotherapeutics
course sequence and future clinical experiences. Students will be instructed on the history and
significance of pharmaceutical (pharmacist-provided) care, important principles required to gather
needed information from a patient chart, how to assess a patient’s drug therapy and create a
problem list, and develop a comprehensive pharmaceutical plan for their care. Techniques will be
taught to assist the student and future pharmacist in recognizing potential medication adherence
problems using objective and subjective evidence of non-adherence, identify causes and monitor to
improve a patient’s adherence to a medication regimen.
Physiology and Anatomy II
with lab - 3.5 Credit Hours
A continuation of Physiology and Anatomy I. Emphasis will be
placed on the circulatory, renal, respiratory, endocrine and gastrointestinal systems.
Research Methods and Pharmacoepidemiology - 3 Credit Hours
This course builds upon
concepts presented in the Drug Information course sequence. Didactic lectures will add basics of
evidence-based medicine. The students will then be asked to put this information into practice
through evaluation of assigned primary literature research papers. Students will then be asked to
discuss the assigned paper in class in a “journal club” format. Students will expand
upon the concept of merely reading articles to building a literature review and/or research
proposal. Pharmacoepidemiology, by drawing upon the concepts from both pharmacology and
epidemiology, will deal with the study of the utilization and effects of drugs in large numbers of
people.
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience - 12 Credit Hours
Students will practice as pharmacy externs for four weeks in both a community and an
institutional setting. They will learn details that involve the distribution of a drug from the
prescription recieved to the safe administration of the drug to the right patient.
Complimentary & Alternative Medicine - 3 Credit Hours
This course
covers different aspects of natural products used as pharmaceuticals, including both plant-derived
and microbial-derived (antibiotics) products. In addition, this course will introduce students to
other aspects of medical care, such as alternative medical therapies used in the US. students will
study the potential drug interactions, adverse effects and usage in the clinical arena.
Clinical Pharmacokinetics - 3 Credit Hours
The course will apply the basic
concepts of Biopharmaceutics/Pharmacokinetics to the clinical management of various
patients’ conditions. The goal is to optimize therapy, achieve maximum efficacy while
preserving safety for the patients.
Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry I - 5
Credit Hours
This course will introduce students to the coordinated study of the
molecular, cellular and physiologic basis of drug action, the influence of chemical and physical
properties in structural activity relationships and drug design as it relates to drug metabolism
and drug action. The course will begin with general principles, and the remainder of the course
will familiarize students with various classes of drugs that act at synaptic and neuroeffector
junctions on the central nervous system. Chemistry and quantitative structural activity
relationships, mechanisms of action, toxicity profiles and pharmacokinetics associated with these
drugs will be emphasized.
Pharmacotherapeutics I through IV - 26 Credit
Hours
This course series will cover pathophysiology and therapeutics per organ systems.
Content is presented in sequence to include these organ systems: respiratory, cardiovascular,
degenerating diseases, genital urological diseases, endocrinology/gastrointestinal diseases,
critical care, infectious diseases, neurology, psychiatry, oncology and women’s
health.
Clinical Laboratory & Physical Assessment - 2 Credit Hours
The students will learn the basics in physical assessment and monitoring the effects of drugs
in patients. The clinical laboratory component will cover the normal and abnormal laboratory
values from different organ systems. This course will prepare the students for upcoming courses
in pathophysiology and therapeutics.
Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry II
- 5 Credit Hours
As a continuation of Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry I, this course
will familiarize students with various classes of drugs used to treat cardiovascular,
gastrointestinal and inflammatory disease . Drugs that act on blood and blood-forming organs will
also be discussed. Mechanisms of action, toxicity profiles, chemistry and quantitative structural
activity relationships, and pharmacokinetics associated with the different drugs will be
emphasized.
Pharmacy Practice Management - 3 Credit Hours
Emphasis is given to the managerial aspects of pharmacy practice within the healthcare system.
This course provides the basic financial and operational management knowledge and skills necessary
for successful professional practice in any venue.
Sterile Dosage Forms
with lab - 2 Credit Hours
Introduces the organization and administration of an admixture
program and admixture techniques. The proper utilization of parenteral products, as well as
parenteral drug compatibility literature is also considered. The lecture portion will meet
approximately 15 hours/term (1.5 Credit Hours), while each student will attend five laboratory
sessions/term (0.5 Credit Hour).
Patient Safety & Medication
Related Errors - 2 Credit Hours
A major objective of this course is to expose pharmacy
students to a background that will allow the reliable translation of the science of preventable
medication errors into clinical practice. Upon completion of this course, students will have the
basic knowledge to understand the science of errors and the basis of safe practices.
Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry III - 5 Credit Hours
As a continuation of
Pharmacology/Medicinal Chemistry II, this course will familiarize students with antibiotics,
chemotherapeutic agents and drugs used to treat disorders of the endocrine system. Mechanisms of
action, toxicity profiles, chemistry and quantitative structural activity relationships, and the
pharmacokinetics associated with the different drugs will be emphasized.
Pharmacy Law - 3 Credit Hours
This course will examine the laws, regulations and related
ethical issues regarding the practice of pharmacy and the regulation and control of drugs,
cosmetics and medical devices.
Capstone Course - 2 Credit Hours
This
course will integrate what the student has learned across many disciplines throughout the didactic
course in order to prepare him or her for success in APPE rotations. The course will utilize
active learning in the format of case presentations, journal clubs and topic discussions.
Graduation Seminar/Poster - 1 Credit Hour
Working with an assigned
research mentor, the student is expected to complete a research proposal. The methodology and
expectations of the proposal build upon information presented in the research methods class of
first year.
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Assessment - 3
Credit Hours
This course will introduce the principles and tools of pharmacoeconomics
and outcomes assessments that are commonly used to study the impact of patient-centered care
services on the health and health care of a patient or community. The student will be familiarized
with the necessary skills to perform cost effectiveness and cost benefit analyses. Case studies
will be used to extend the didactic portion of the course into real-life experiences for students.
Students will be given an opportunity to view this dynamic process from the varying points of view
for all stakeholders engaged in making therapeutic decisions.
Pharmacogenomics - 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with an understanding
of the ways that inherited variations in genes affects response to drugs, and how an understanding
of these variations can be used to predict response. The course will provide an overview of the
principles of genetic medicine and bioinformatics, and consider ethical, legal and social issues in
genomics. The impact of genetics on drug metabolism and drug transporters will be discussed, as well
as the role of pharmacogenomics in drug discovery and development. Finally, the role that
pharmacogenomics plays in treatment of specific diseases will complete the course.
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) - 60 Credit
Hours
Students will participate as pharmacy externs in six, six-week rotations.
These experiences are clinically focused and will prepare each student to provide patient-centered
care as clinical pharmacists. Core rotations include ambulatory care, advanced institutional,
advanced community and inpatient/acute medicine. Students will also have the opportunity to
participate in two elective rotations with the ability to choose from a wide variety of practice
settings.
Electives
Students will choose from between three and eight
electives planned by the faculty.Erie Electives
Fall
Teaching Elective
Advanced
Management and Community Practice Elective
Independent Research Elective
Drugs of Abuse
Elective
Spring
Writing In Science
Independent Research Elective
Nuclear Pharmacy
Evaluation of Scientific Literature
Advanced Compounding Elective
Summer
Application of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics in Oncology
Healthcare and Preventing Disease Elective
Geriatric Pharmacy Practice
Independent
Research Elective
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