Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 172
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Curriculum
When taken separately, there are 154 credit hours in the PharmD program and 36 credit hours in the MSHI program for a total of 190 credit hours. Students in the concurrent program take 145 credit hours in the PharmD program and 27 credit hours in the MHSI program for a total of 172 credit hours.
MSHI Degree Requirements
The MSHI program consists of 36 credit hours of online courses. PharmD students in the concurrent program will meet nine of these credit hours with the following required PharmD courses:
- PHAS 728N Pharmacy Management I (2 hours) and PHAS 754 Pharmacy Management II (2 hours) will substitute for PSYC 576 Graduate Seminar in Organizational Development (3 hours)
- PHAS 756 Pharmacy and Population Health (2 hours) will substitute for PBHE 455 Introduction to Epidemiology (3 hours)
- PHEP 789 ImPaCT Project (3 hours) will substitute for HCIM 596A Capstone I (1 hour), 596B Capstone II (1 hour), and 596C Capstone III (1 hour). The capstone/senior project must be healthcare informatics-focused and will be used to fulfill capstone requirements for both the PharmD and MSHI programs. The project must be approved by three graduate faculty members, one of which must be the MSHI program director.
PharmD Degree Requirements
The School of Pharmacy will accept the following required MSHI courses as external electives towards the elective requirement of the PharmD program:
- NURS 509 Interdisciplinary Healthcare Informatics (3 hours)
- NURS 511 Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in an Information Age (3 hours)
- NURS 512 Managing Quality and Safety in Healthcare (3 hours)
In addition, students enrolled in the concurrent program have the option to take a School of Pharmacy approved elective or an independent study in order to fulfill the 10 credit hours of elective requirement for the PharmD program. Students will also be required to focus the ImPaCT capstone project on healthcare informatics.
Progression and Retention
Students accepted into the concurrent program will need to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in graduate courses.
Students placed on pharmacy academic probation will be required to pause their concurrent degree studies until they successfully remediate pharmacy courses and return to non-probation status.
Students who fail to meet the master's progression criteria must meet with the master's program director to discuss a retention and remediation plan. The School of Pharmacy will also be involved in the discussion of the progression status of the concurrent degree studies. Based on the timeline, students may be unable to complete the concurrent degree.
