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Twin Cities Campus

Social and Administrative Pharmacy Minor

Pharmaceutical Care and Health
College of Pharmacy
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
7-155 Weaver-Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-2973; fax: 612-625-9931)
Email: cremi001@umn.edu
Website: http://z.umn.edu/saphgrad
  • Program Type: Graduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2022
  • Length of program in credits (master's): 6
  • Length of program in credits (doctoral): 12
  • This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.
Students in the Social and Administrative Pharmacy Program are prepared for research and related activities investigating relationships between biological and physical factors in social settings that involve the drug use process. The flexible interdisciplinary program uses the resources of the many health and social science departments at the University, and may include courses and offerings from public health, geriatrics, management, sociology, psychology, and public affairs. The program focuses on the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge to foster appropriate use of drugs to improve patient outcomes at the individual and societal level. Students are educated and mentored to become professional scientists. Those who complete the program will understand the process of conducting high-quality research and problem solving through the application of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, theory, and research methodology. Social and administrative pharmacy (SAPH) is the application of behavior-oriented interdisciplinary theories to pharmacy problem solving and pharmacy system development. This includes the study of the social, psychosocial, political, legal, public policy, historic, and economic factors that impinge upon the use, non-use, and abuse of drugs.
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Prerequisites for Admission
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
In addition to coursework, a written examination is required.
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Masters
Required Courses (6 credits)
Courses must be selected in consultation with the minor field director of graduate studies.
Take exactly 2 course(s) from the following:
· SAPH 8235 - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (3.0 cr)
· SAPH 8420 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice (3.0 cr)
Doctoral
Required Courses (9 credits)
Courses must be selected in consultation with the minor field director of graduate studies.
Take exactly 3 course(s) from the following:
· SAPH 8235 - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (3.0 cr)
· SAPH 8420 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice (3.0 cr)
· SAPH 8500 - Pharmacy and Its Environment (3.0 cr)
Elective (3 credits)
Courses must be selected in consultation with the minor field director of graduate studies.
SAPH 8255 - Pharmaceutical Marketing (3.0 cr)
or SAPH 8610 - Pharmacoepidemiology (3.0 cr)
or SAPH 8810 - Social Psychology of Health Care (3.0 cr)
or SAPH 8840 - Social Measurement (3.0 cr)
 
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SAPH 8235 - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Economic analysis of pharmaceutical sector of health care systems. Problems of pricing production and distribution of pharmaceuticals. Domestic or international policy issues relevant to price and access of pharmaceuticals. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8420 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Historical development of the profession, its growth and development, emphasizing forces of education, professionalization, attitude modification, and changes occurring as a product of legal and organizational forces in society. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8235 - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Economic analysis of pharmaceutical sector of health care systems. Problems of pricing production and distribution of pharmaceuticals. Domestic or international policy issues relevant to price and access of pharmaceuticals. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8420 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy Practice
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Historical development of the profession, its growth and development, emphasizing forces of education, professionalization, attitude modification, and changes occurring as a product of legal and organizational forces in society. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8500 - Pharmacy and Its Environment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Cultural foundations of pharmacy. Development of present state of pharmacy practice. Role of pharmacist as health practitioner in relation to other health practitioners. Identification of factors (health policy, regulation, economics, research and development, promotion) that affect individual responses to drug therapy. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8255 - Pharmaceutical Marketing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical development of distributive systems, marketing channels, institutions, policies, and practices as they relate to pharmaceutical industry. Contemporary issues/theory related to pharmaceutical marketing. Pharmaceutical proportion, especially directed to consumer advertising.
SAPH 8610 - Pharmacoepidemiology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the uses and effects of drugs in patient populations. The science of pharmacoepidemiology borrows from pharmacology and epidemiology. This course will introduce students to the field of pharmacoepidemiology including study methodology, relevant statistics, data sources, measurement of treatments and outcomes, sources of bias and control of confounding, techniques to reduce bias and confounding, survival analysis and regression techniques, interpretation of results, and drug safety surveillance and risk management.
SAPH 8810 - Social Psychology of Health Care
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Behavioral and social aspects of recovery responses to drugs and other therapies, patients' compliance with prescribed therapies, relationships between healthcare professional and patient. prereq: Grad SAPh major or instr consent
SAPH 8840 - Social Measurement
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data. prereq: Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent