Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 170
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Curriculum
When taken separately, there are 154 credit hours in the PharmD program and 42 credit hours in the MPH program, for a total of 196 credit hours. Students in the concurrent PharmD/MPH program will take 143 credit hours in the PharmD program and 27 credit hours in the MPH program, which includes 9 hours of PharmD courses that are approved as MPH electives.
MPH Degree Requirements
The MPH program consists of 33 credit hours of public health core courses and nine hours of leadership-focused electives. For PharmD students in the concurrent program, the following courses are MPH-approved electives:
- PHAS 716 Ethical Issues in Healthcare (1 hour)
- PHAS 728N Pharmacy Management I (2 hours)
- PHAS 709 Health Care and Financial Management (2 hours)
- PHAS 733N Pharmacy Law (2 hours)
- PHAS 754 Pharmacy Management II (2 hours)
In addition, PharmD students in the concurrent program will meet six hours of the core MPH curriculum with the following PharmD courses:
- PHEP 784 Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Specialized Practice (6 hours), from a list of MPH-approved APPEs, will substitute for PBHE 560 Applied Practice Experience (3 hours).
- PHEP 789 Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: ImPaCT (3 hours) will substitute for one of the PBHE 599A Capstone Semesters (3 hours). The capstone/ImPaCT project must be public health focused and will be used to fulfill the exit requirement for both PharmD and MPH programs. The project must be approved by the MPH program director.
PharmD Degree Requirements
The School of Pharmacy will accept the following required MPH courses as external electives toward the 10 hour elective requirement of the PharmD program:
- PBHE 500 Core Principles in Public Health and Public Health Leadership (3 hours)
- PBHE 520 Public Health Data Analysis (3 hours)
- PBHE 530 Epidemiology (3 hours)
- PBHE 550 Research and Evaluation Methods (3 hours)
- PBHE 540 Public Health Policy and Administration (3 hours)
- PBHE 580 Public Health Interventions (3 hours)
In addition, students in the concurrent PharmD/MPH program would not be required to take PHEP 751 Essentials of Research Application (1 hour), as PBHE 550 Research and Evaluation Methods (3 hours) would address the required outcomes of PHEP 751. In order to fulfill the requirement of PHEP 751, successful completion of PBHE 550 prior to APPE is required.
Students in the concurrent program will also be required to focus the ImPaCT project on public health.
Progression and Retention
Students accepted into the concurrent program will need to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in graduate courses. In addition, students will need to earn a grade of B or above in the required MPH courses and MPH-approved electives. Students must also successfully complete the capstone with a satisfactory grade.
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.
