Elective courses provide you with an opportunity to enhance your knowledge, skills and professional attitude beyond that provided by the core curriculum.
NOTE: The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences reserves the right to update the curricular plan as needed in order to achieve curricular outcomes in accordance with Accreditation Standards and Guidelines, university, state and federal regulations.
Consult with your faculty advisor and peers for recommendations. Please note that elective availability and schedule may change. For registration questions, email pharm-advise@buffalo.edu and include your person number.
Interest Areas:
AC=Ambulatory Care
AD=Academia
CD = Cardiology
CR=Community/Retail
DI=Drug Information
F=Fellowship
GH=Global Health
HDI=Hospital Dispensing/Institutional
NS=Nuclear Science
NU=Nutrition
ON=Oncology
PD=Pediatrics
PG=Pharmacogenomics
PKPD=Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
PM=Pharmacometrics
PSY=Psychiatry
RS=Residency
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Course Title and Description | Area(s) of Interest | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | PHC 500 | Basic Drug Development Introductory graduate course on the fundamental concepts of drug formulation and development, including discussions of the crucial physicochemical and biopharmaceutical characteristics necessary for drug absorption. | F | 2 | ||
| X | PHC 508 | Drug Delivery A study at the advanced level of the physical and biological principles which apply to the design, development, and evaluation of drug delivery systems. Specific examples of modern systems such as transdermal preparations, liposomes, implants, monoclonal antibodies, and those involving site-targeting will be discussed. | F | 2 | ||
| X | PHC 509 | Pharmacogenomics Even years Instructor permission only This graduate level course (2 credits) covers the essential fundamentals of pharmacogenomics within the context of the pharmaceutical sciences. Emphasis is devoted to the application of pharmacogenomics principles and techniques to contemporary drug development practices and drug treatments for major diseases. | F, PG | 2 | ||
| X | PHC 538 | Introduction to Biologics Even years Biologics such as protein-, gene- and cell- based therapies have been of great interest as therapeutic modalities for clinical use. They show immense promise to treat/cure several clinical conditions. Due to its complexity, dispensing and development of these drugs poses challenges. the protein drugs are not user friendly like small organic molecule based drugs and pose unique difficulties in its development and handling as drugs. Please refer to the reading material. | F, PKPD, PG | 2 | ||
| X | PHC 539 | Protein Pharmaceuticals Introduction to pharmaceutical issues associated with the development of protein and antibody drugs, in particular, production, formulation, stability, characterization and analysis, Pharmacokinetics & dynamics, immunogenicity, delivery, Bio-similar, bio-betters and next generation protein products. | F, PKPD, PG | 2 | ||
| X | PHC 607 | Intermediate Pharmacokinetics This course covers the theoretical development of the major methods, models, and equations used in pharmacokinetics with their physicochemical and physiological assumptions and limitations. It employs current graphical and computer methods of applying pharmacokinetics to analysis of experimental and clinical data; as well as evaluating literature and approaches to design of studies and recovery of essential drug parameters. | F, PKPD, PG | 3 | ||
| X | X | X | PHC 613 | Pharmaceutics Seminar Instructor permission only Guidance in research in connection with graduate thesis. May be taken more than once for credit. | F | 1 |
| X | X | X | PHC 615 | Research Instructor permission only Research | All | 1 - 6 |
| X | PHC 630 | Drug Metabolism and Transport Odd years A study of the metabolism and transport of drugs and drug metabolites. Topics include in-depth discussions of Phase I and II biotransformation pathways, Solute Carrier and ATP-binding cassette membrane transport proteins, intestinal, hepatic, renal and brain metabolism and transport, in vitro/in vivo techniques for evaluating drug metabolism and transport, and scale-up of drug metabolism and membrane transport data. | F | 3 | ||
| X | X | PHM 525 | Positron Emission Tomography
This course will introduce students to the modalities used in molecular imaging. Four imaging modalities will be covered. Those are optical imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single Photon Imaging Technology (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). It is designed to introduce students to the basics of each modality. The students spend time at the radiochemistry laboratory for the production of human use PET radiopharmaceuticals. They are exposed to automated synthesizer, HPLC and other equipment needed to complete the quality control tests required by USP. The students also spend time in MRI camera laboratory and learn the practical aspect of MRI imaging. | NS | 2 | |
| X | PHM 536 | Diabetes Management Students will develop their knowledge and ability to assess, manage, educate, and monitor patients with diabetes with a more in depth examination of various topics. | AC | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 551 | Clinical Research Methods This course will introduce the student to the concepts and analytical foundation underlying evidence-based pharmacy practice and clinical research. Course content will focus on: concepts of evidence-based practice; fundamentals of research including measurement, reliability, validity, and ethical concerns; an overview of the FDA approval process; clinical research designs; data analysis and presentation; and the structure and evaluation of clinical research proposals and reports. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to critically evaluate the medical literature for use in clinical and or/administrative decision making. | F | 2 | ||
| X | X | PHM 561 | Global Health Outreach This course is designed to expose students to issues surrounding global health including what world interdependence means, considerations in treating noncommunicable diseases in low-income countries, pharmacists' role/servant leadership, concerns and regulations regarding medication use and acquisition outside the USA, and opportunities that exist for pharmacists in global health. Students will also be exposed to possible opportunities to participate in global health outreach such as medical mission trips, advanced rotation experiences, and short-term trips. | GH | 1 | |
| X | X | X | PHM 598 | Professional Problems Instructor permission only Independent study. Contact instructor. | All | 1 - 6 |
| X | PHM 599 | Teaching and Learning Theory
The supervised teaching course provides instruction on learning theory and best teaching practices. This will provide the P3 students at the University at Buffalo opportunities to learn about teaching modalities and apply them in small group sessions and evaluate students' performance in pharmaceutical care activities during teaching assistant activities. | AD, RS | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 607 | Clinical Evaluation of New Drugs PHM 607 is a 1-credit hour course offered in the Fall Semester to students in the third professional year of the Doctor of Pharmacy program. The course is intended to build on drug information skills introduced to students in the P2 year and prepare information for presentation to peers and pharmacists on newly approved drugs. | DI | 1 | ||
| X | X | PHM 611 | Practical Oncology Many patients seen in healthcare settings such as community pharmacy, ambulatory care and acute care often come across individuals undergoing active therapies for their cancer diagnosis. Often times these complications are treated in settings out of the direct oversight of their oncologists. This course will look through the lenses of non-oncologists/oncology pharmacists as they treat common complications, presentations and side effects that can routinely be seen in other settings. Topics such as nausea and vomiting, febrile neutropenia and infections, tumor lysis syndrome, hypercalcemia of malignancy and bone health as well as others will be discussed. | ON | 1 | |
| X | X | PHM 612 | Specialty Pharmacy This elective allows students to gain knowledge and expertise in the field of specialty pharmacy. This course will focus on development of clinical and practical knowledge of specialty pharmaceuticals as well as critical thinking and applications of clinical knowledge to solve actual patient problems. It is a pharmacy elective course designed primarily for students interested in expanding their knowledge of specialty pharmaceuticals. | All | 1 | |
| X | X | PHM 643 | Book Club Discussion This is an in person, small discussion group of one book that involves a health or health care theme and the intersection with health care disparities. | All | 1 | |
| X | PHM 752 | Cardiology and Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Cardiology and critical care pharmacotherapy is an elective course offered to third year professional pharmacy students. The course will cover the pathophysiology and therapeutics of various disease states encountered in these populations. The course will also address challenges to providing pharmaceutical care to these populations, with a particular focus on selecting the appropriate drug, dosage, and route of administration. | CD | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 753 | Pharmacy Journal Club This course is designed to improve students understanding of primary literature, research methodology, statistical analysis, and application. Through a formal journal club presentation and group discussion and evaluation of presentations, students will improve presentation skills and collegial discussion of primary literature. | 1 | |||
| X | X | PHM 798 | Supervised Teaching Teaching assistants serve various roles in courses throughout pharmacy school. Supervised Teaching allows faculty to recognize students who participate as teaching assistants in their courses as review session holders, content creators, and simulated patients, to name a few responsibilities. | AD, RS | 1 - 3 |
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Course Title and Description | Area(s) of Interest | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | PHC 506 | Biometry in Pharmaceutical Sciences PHC 506 is a required 3 credit course designed for first year graduate students of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. This course provides a broad overview of statistical approaches commonly used in the area of pharmaceutical research. In addition to learning the theoretical aspects of these approaches, students will gain hands-on experience applying these approaches to experimental data using a statistical software package used be researches in academia, government, and the pharmaceutical industry. | F | 3 | ||
| X | PHC 543 | Molecular Genetic Methods This course consists of lectures and laboratories designed to introduce the theory and basic tools used in molecular biology. The course goal is to give students hands-on experience with a number of the techniques used in molecular biology as they are applied in the pharmaceutical sciences. The lectures will provide much of the theory that underlies these techniques. | F | 1 | ||
| X | PHC 599 | Supervised Teaching for PHC Course Teaching Assistants | AD, RS | 1-3 | ||
| X | PHC 608 | Advanced Pharmacokinetics This graduate elective course presents principles and applications of contemporary empirical and mechanism-based mathematical modeling approaches to characterize the pharmacokinetic properties of small and macromolecule drugs within the context of drug discovery and development. Case studies will be used to demonstrate how to identify, interpret, and in some cases predict drug- and system-specific properties that control the time-course and extent of drug exposure in relevant biological fluids (e.g., plasma) and sites of action. | F, PKPD | 3 | ||
| X | PHC 609 | Advanced Pharmacodynamics This graduate elective course presents principles and applications of quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) topics that is focused on biochemical reaction networks. QSP is essential to characterize drug action at the molecular scale and has numerous applications to drug development and clinical pharmacology. | F, PKPD, PM | 3 | ||
| X | PHC 610 | Population PKPD Modeling
This course introduces population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling methods, including the use of state-of-the-art software and tools (in particular, NONMEM) to analyze PK and PD data. | F, PKPD, PM | 2 | ||
| X | X | X | PHC 614 | Pharmaceutics Seminar
Guidance in research in connection with graduate thesis. May be taken more than once for credit. | F | 1 |
| X | X | X | PHC 616 | Research
Research | All | 1 - 6 |
| X | X | PHM 529 | Cannabis: A Review of its Pharmacology, Mythology, and Implications
As policies related to adult-use recreational cannabis and medical marijuana continue to evolve, individuals are faced with a range of complex questions. Are you curious about the short and long-term benefits and harms of marijuana/cannabis use? Do you want to the separate the fact from fiction regarding the health claims for THC and CBD? The course will include basic information about the cannabis plant and its pharmacologic components, the bodily systems involved in the action and metabolism of cannabinoids, and the history of cannabis policy in the US. The course will explore the evolving status of cannabis use, the health claims and health effects of cannabis use (including effects of THC and CBD), and the evolving changes in medicinal and adult-use cannabis. This course is the same as CHB 529 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements. | All | 3 | |
| X | PHM 550 | Pharmacy Leadership
There exists a critical leadership shortage within the profession of pharmacy. PHM550 is a 1 credit course designed for students enrolled at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy. The course is scheduled to meet during the fall semester. The primary goal of this course is to provide students identified as the future leaders of our profession with the tools necessary to develop their ability to effectively lead others, inside and outside their profession. Students will be assigned introductory readings in the following areas: identifying one's strengths; people skills, personalities, and networking; relationships and working effectively with others; team-building and team-managing; professionalism and ethics; supervising, managing, and leading; developing a professional practice vision, setting goals, and establishing priorities; and, integrating one's personal life and career. Students keep a reflective journal or complete an assignment for each reading, detailing: what they learned from the reading; the statement, passage or quote that was most profound to them; and an example detailing how they incorporated what they learned into their professional life. Classroom discussions will be student led, facilitated by the course coordinator, and will be based on readings, reflective journal exercises, and cases. | AD, RS | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 552 | Clinical Research Methods
PHM552 is a 1 credit hour course to prepare Doctor of Pharmacy students accepted into the Clinical Research Program for participation in clinical research careers. The course includes lectures, recitations and written assignments. The final project for the course is the development of a defendable research protocol, informed consent document, and other supporting documenta-tion as necessary (source documents, case report forms, drug disposition records, etc). The final project includes a written protocol and an oral presentation and defense of the protocol. | F | 2 | ||
| X | X | PHM 553 | Translational Biometry
This course will be offered to Health Care Professionals (i.e., Pharmacy, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health) and students graduating in the health or medical sciences including Biomedical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences. This course will focus on the practical application of biostatistics to patient centered data using advanced pragmatic statistical and model based approaches for future pharmacists and clinicians. | F | 1 | |
| X | X | PHM 554 | Clinical and Translational Therapeutics Seminar
PHM 554 is a 1 credit hour course offered to students in the M.S. program in Clinical and Translational Therapeutics and offered to Pharmacy and Health Care Professional (i.e., Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health) students enrolled in the health or medical sciences including Biomedical Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences or Pharmacology and Toxicology. Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences students from all years are also encouraged to enroll and attend the seminar series for the school. There will be 16 1-hour seminar slots which will be held every week in the semester with a combination of internationally renowned clinical and translational therapeutic faculty outside UB and student defenses who will present to the school at large for completion of their research. Approximately 40 minutes will be devoted for the lecture and 20 minutes will be devoted for questions. Students are encouraged to activity participate in seminars with questions and will be given every opportunity to interact with the speakers. | |||
| X | X | X | PHM 587 | Radiopharmacy
This course is a survey of Radiopharmacy. It will cover the basic principles of Radiopharmacy and Nuclear Medicine instrumentation, Radiopharmaceutical and Radiopharmacy design, selected Radiopharmaceuticals, and some of the regulatory and safety issues that are involved with the use of Radiopharmaceuticals in diagnosis and therapy. Students will also observe the operation of a centralized Nuclear Pharmacy and a clinical Nuclear Medicine Department. | NS | 2 |
| X | X | X | PHM 598 | Professional Problems Instructor permission only | All | 1 - 6 |
| X | PHM 608 | Selected Topics in Infectious Disease
The aim of this course is to provide interested pharmacy practice students a comprehensive introduction to a variety of advanced topics in infectious disease pharmacotherapy. Through didactic and case based learning, interested students will expand upon the knowledge gained in their pharmacotherapeutics courses, to delve more deeply into the challenges caused by global pathogens. This will prepare students for advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) rotations during their fourth year of pharmacy school, as well as for future practice increasingly globalized health care settings. This course will investigate a number of infectious diseases that arise from viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and helminths as well as agents of potential use in bioterrorism. | AC, CR | 2 | ||
| X | X | X | PHM 628 | International Experiences
International pharmacy experiences provide students with a broader perspective on health care at a global level. These immersive experiences allow students to gain understanding on a health care setting outside the US, learn how to treat diseases that originate in other countries or are uncommon in the US, improve understanding on how culture impacts care, and provides the students with an optimal environment for self-reflection. In order to enroll in this elective, students must be preapproved for SPPS international travel. This includes our short term global health experiences with medical missions, IPPEs, and APPEs. Students can expect financial responsibility for their travel costs in alignment with our international travel policies. | GH | 1 |
| X | PHM 629 | Community Pharmacy Concepts
The objective of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the workflow of a community pharmacy and the responsibilities of a community pharmacist. This course will also provide skills and tools that can be used during IPPEs. This course would be beneficial for students with little to no community pharmacy experience or knowledge, but will also help supplement knowledge learned during work experience for students with community experience. Information will be presented to students in a primary lecture based setting. Students will be evaluated based on their attendance, an exam, and a final paper. Increasing students' general understanding of community pharmacy will allow students to focus on the clinical aspects of their IPPE and APPE community rotations. | CR | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 754 | Transitions of Care in Pharmacy Practice This 1.0 credit elective course, offered to third professional year (P3) pharmacy students, will provide an in-depth look at transitions of care and the factors at the root of ineffective transitions, leading to hospital readmissions. The role of the pharmacist in transitions of care and outcomes associated with pharmacist involvement in transitions of care will be examined and students will be challenged to design a transitions of care model for a specific practice setting (e.g., hospital, community pharmacy, primary care practice, etc.). | 1 | |||
| X | X | PHM 755 | Rare Genetic Disorders
The course will cover the pathophysiology and the pharmacotherapy available for a variety of rare genetic disorders encountered in both pediatric and adult patients. The course will address and enhance the student's skills related to self-directed learning, patient communication, and care coordination required for these patients. | AC, PD, DI | 2 | |
| X | PHM 772 | Foundations of Managed Care
PHM 772 will be an engaging exploration of the healthcare industry from the perspective of a managed care pharmacy professional. The course will explore topics including but not limited to Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) committees, formulary management, formulary decision making, pharmacy benefit management, and pharmaceutical rebate contracting. | 1 | |||
| X | PHM 790 | Topics in Psychiatry
The course builds upon your knowledge of psychiatric pharmacy practice that was discussed in PHM512/PHM701. Review of the DSM 5 mental health conditions, medications used to treat, and other challenges of providing care in psychiatry will be included in this elective. The topics and ideas shared in this course will enable you to successfully manage psychiatric patient population in both the community and institutional setting. | PSY | 2 | ||
| X | PHM 791 | Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Pediatric pharmacotherapy is an elective course offered to third year professional pharmacy students. The course will cover the pathophysiology and therapeutics of various disease states encountered in the pediatric population. The course will also address challenges to providing pharmaceutical care to children, with a particular focus on selecting the appropriate drug, dosage, and route of administration. | PD | 1 | ||
| X | PHM 794 | Advanced Ambulatory Pharmacotherapeutics PHM 794 is a 2 credit hour course for Doctor of Pharmacy students in the Ambulatory Care/Community track, which is intended to teach and develop, advanced problem-solving skills relative to the management of complex patient cases similar to those encountered in the various types of ambulatory care practice settings. This course will use active and team learning principles to introduce advanced therapeutic topics through the development of care plans of complex, multi-problem patients. | AC | 2 | ||
| X | PHM 795 | Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics
PHM 795 is a 2-credit hour course for Doctor of Pharmacy students which is intended to teach and develop advanced problem-solving skills relative to the management of complex patient cases similar to those encountered in the acute and long-term care setting. The course includes independent learning, team learning, oral presentations, recitations, and written assignments. This course will use active and team learning principles to introduce advanced therapeutic topics through the development of care plans and case presentations of complex, multi-problem patients. During the recitations, the faculty members will facilitate discussion and clarify difficult or controversial issues, but will not present formal didactic lectures. Course materials, grades and evaluations will be administered using UBLearns. | HDI | 2 | ||
| X | X | PHM 798 | Supervised Teaching
Teaching assistants serve various roles in courses throughout pharmacy school. Supervised Teaching allows faculty to recognize students who participate as teaching assistants in their courses as review session holders, content creators, and simulated patients, to name a few responsibilities. | AD, RS | 1 - 3 |
Students may conduct independent research or collaborate on projects under a mentor’s guidance. Here is how to get involved with research:
- Dual/collaborative degree program
- Microcredential
- Independent study*
*Search for independent study opportunities:
- View our faculty profiles or the School Reference List where you can search by interest and department. Contact faculty directly to ask if they have any opportunities. Note: Most faculty accept appointments through EAB.
- Ask your faculty advisor if they have suggestions based on your interests and career goals.
- Watch for announcements shared via the listserv.
- View current opportunities below.
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | X | PHM 598 CHA | This course will focus on research activities and will be strategically tailored to the student, including the spectrum of foundational experiences to advanced laboratory techniques and research quality assurance. Mentorship is built into this course and encompasses professional pathways to clinical specialty practice, academia, and industry. While all students will engage in study literature reviews to enhance translational competencies and scientific communication skills, some will also engage in clinical research activities in collaboration with regional health-system clinical pharmacy specialists or laboratory research developing drug assays or testing antimicrobials against microorganisms, and others will engage in analytical activities in research quality assurance. Select students may have the opportunity to provide a professional presentation and contribute to abstracts and publications. Limited to two students. Please contact Dr. Cha for more information. | 1-3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 598 DAL | An opportunity for PharmD students to learn and research material they find interesting and that will help in their future careers that aligns with both the student and faculty member. Independent study track record has provided students with clinical, research, and teaching experience that will prepare them with a unique skillset to compete for future career opportunities. Research and teaching areas include innovative outpatient pharmacy models, social/administrative pharmacy practice sciences, and clinical based outcomes research.
| 1 - 3 |
| X | X | PHM 598 DOLO | This is an opportunity for Fall 2023 with Dr. Doloresco to examine topics in digital health, a cutting-edge field of healthcare. The course would be valuable to students interested in either digital health or academia. Students will be assigned individual topics in digital health to explore such as AI in healthcare, wearable health technology, mobile health applications, digital medicine, digital therapeutics, electronic health records, e-prescribing and e-dispensing, online pharmacy, remote patient monitoring, or telehealth/telepharmacy. Students will work with Dr. Doloresco to review published information on their topic(s), to summarize the topic, and to create a script for educational videos on the topic. The course (PHM 598 DOLO) is available to students in the P2 or P3 year. Students can register for 1-3 credits. Up to 5 students can enroll in the course and those registering for 3 credits and P3 students will be given priority. Please contact Dr. Doloresco to let him know your program year, how many credits you are registering for, and a sentence or two about why you are interested in digital health and/or academia. | 1-3 | |
| X | X | X | PHM 598 DES | This is an opportunity for PharmD students to learn and gain experience in different types of pharmacy practice – Retrospective Drug Utilization Reviews and reports and/or pharmacist role in patient care in dental clinics [whenever availability exists] and/or pharmacist role in serving underrepresented populations [depending on schedule availability]. Student participation in faculty research projects is also possible. There is also possibility for students to learn/research material they find interesting that aligns with both the student and faculty member. Schedule to be mutually agreed upon.
Submitting a CV is highly recommended.
| 1 - 2 |
| X | PHM 598 GREG | Dr. Gregoire is looking for motivated P3 individuals who would like to work alongside pharmacy residents to assist them with their research related projects/tasks this fall. This is a great way to boost your CV and see what a pharmacy resident does. Interested P3s should send a statement of interest (a paragraph explaining why they are interested in this opportunity) and a CV to Dr. Gregoire (kgregoire@chsbuffalo.org). Students should expect to spend at least 15 hours on site at Kenmore Mercy at times agreed upon by Dr. Gregoire, the pharmacy resident and student. Please contact Dr. Kelsey Gregoire for information. | 1 | ||
| X | X | PHM 598 LU | This course offers PharmD students the chance to acquire knowledge and experience in performing relevant literature reviews and responding to drug information (DI) inquiries. Additionally, students will learn from a librarian how to establish their literature review criteria tailored to the DI question and monitor them over time. The objective of this course is to furnish students with the skills needed to locate, summarize, and critically assess scientific literature in a thorough and efficient manner. Participants will enhance their medical writing abilities by generating detailed responses to DI questions and collaborating with faculty and librarians on a review article, with the opportunity to submit their work for publication.
Submitting a CV is required. Please contact Dr. Lu for more information. | 2 | |
| X | X | PHM 598 KRAJ | This is an opportunity for students to gain experience in the use of administrative data to examine medications and their role in oral health. There will also be opportunities to gain experience in Retrospective Drug Utilization Review. This course will include both clinical and research experiences depending on availability. Please contact Dr. Michael Krajewski for more details. The candidate must submit a CV. | 1-2 | |
| X | X | PHM 598 QING | Phase IV post marketing clinical trial on the potential impact of drug formulation change on quality of life and neurocognitive function. Activities include patient interactions, data collection and analyses.
| 1-2 |
Notes:
Credit hours vary. When registering, the default is one credit so be sure to adjust accordingly.
If you are seeking an independent study with an outside faculty member and wish for it to count toward your elective requirements, you must seek prior approval by emailing pharm-advise@buffalo.edu.
A maximum of one course (up to 3 credits) of approved non-SPPS courses may count toward the professional electives requirement. Cross-listed courses taught by other departments are considered non-SPPS. PMY TA's are considered non-SPPS.
To register for an outside course, use the Petition for Course Credit Outside Your
Primary Academic Career form.
Not all courses are offered each year. See UB Class Schedules for offerings.
Interest Areas:
CR=Community/Retail
DMS=Diabetes and Metabolic (Bariatric) Surgery
EPD=Epidemiology
GH=Global Health
IN=Industry
LD=Leadership
NEU=Neurology
NS=Nutrition Science
ON=Oncology
PCI=Pharmacoinformatics
PH=Public Health
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Course Title | Area(s) of Interest | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | X | CHB 501 | Study of Health Behavior Limited availability. Email the instructor for permission. | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | CHB 601 | Principles of Community Health and Health Behavior | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | EEH 501 | Epidemiology Principles Only 3 credits count toward elective requirement | PH | 4 |
| X | X | X | EEH 530 | Intro to Health Care Organization | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | LAI 648 | Graduate Research Ethics | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | MGB 630 | LD | 1.5 | |
| X | X | X | NGC 518 | Health Promotion and Epidemiologic Methods Instructor permission only | EPD | 3 |
| X | X | X | NMD 325 | Radiation Safety for NMT | NS | 2 |
| X | X | X | NMD 421 | Basic Radiation Science | NS | 4 |
| X | X | X | NTR 500 | Energy/Protein Nutrition | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | NTR 503 | Nutrition and Health | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | NTR 527/ ES 527 | Obesity | DMS | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 522/ CHB 522 | Health for Refugee Populations | GH | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 642/ MGH 642 | Innovators in Health Care | CR | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 692/ MGH 692 | Health Care Fraud and Abuse | CR | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 867/ LAW 867 | Law and Genetics | PCI | 3 |
| X | X | PMY 599 | Supervised Teaching Instructor permission only | AD, RS | 2 | |
| X | X | PMY 626 | Toxicology Principles and Practices | All | 3 | |
| X | X | X | RPN 530 | Oncology for Scientists I | ON | 4 |
| X | X | X | SPA 522 | All | 3 | |
| X | X | X | STA 527 | Intro to Medical Statistics | All | 4 |
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Course Title | Area(s) of Interest | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | X | CHB 502 | Health Behavior Change | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | EEH 502 | Advanced Methodology | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | EEH 521 | Global Health | GH | 3 |
| X | X | X | EEH 537 | Public Health Law: Legal and Ethical Perspectives | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | MGB 631 | Leadercorp Foundations II | LD | 1.5 |
| X | X | X | MGO 695 | Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 605/ CHB 602 | Community Health and Health Behavior Interventions | PH | 3 |
| X | X | X | PHM 641/ MGH 641 | The Business of Health Care | IN, CR | 3 |
| X | X | X | CHB 605 | Applied Statistics for Public Health | PH | 3 |
| X | X | PMY 599 | Supervised Teaching Instructor permission only | AD, RS | 2 | |
| X | X | X | RPN 532 | Oncology for Scientists | ON | 4 |
| X | X | X | SPA 324 | Medical and Health-Related Spanish | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | SPA 522 | All | 3 | |
| X | X | X | SPA 540 | Intermediate Spanish for the Healthcare Professions | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | SW 554 | Motivational Interviewing | All | 3 |
| X | X | X | UWYO Online | All |
See also UB This Summer.
| P1 | P2 | P3 | Course Number | Course Title | Area(s) of Interest | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | X | NGC 518 | Health Behavior Change Instructor permission only | EPD | 3 |
| X | X | X | SW 702 | Motivational Interviewing for Client Behavior Change | ALL | 1 |
| X | X | X | UF Online | UF Veterinary Pharmacy | PH | 2 |
| X | X | X | UNC Online | UNC Innovations and Transformations in Pharmaceutical Sciences | 3 |
