Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Pharmaceutical Sciences - Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Track
Jan-2000Starting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Degree
MDiv
Study Level
PHD
The UK College of Pharmacy provides PhD candidates the opportunity to train alongside some of the most talented pharmaceutical scientists on the planet. Students get to do so in the world's largest College of Pharmacy facility, thanks to our open and inviting laboratories. The results; a bold and innovative training opportunity. Health care delivery faces the multiple challenges of limited resources, increasing expenditures, increasing expectations, greater complexity, costly new technology, and limited health care access. The need for professionally trained translational pharmaceutical research scientists in analyzing medication outcomes and policy planning has never been greater, as pharmaceutical policy issues become larger and more complex. Our society is accustomed to extensive drug use. In 2001, US physicians prescribed nearly 3 billion prescriptions costing in excess of $150 billion. In 2005, global drug expenditures surpassed $600 billion. But the cost is not just in dollars. In 1997, researchers projected that up to 140,000 deaths are caused annually in the U.S. by adverse events due to legally prescribed medications. Published estimates for the rate of hospital admissions due to adverse drug reactions range from 3-28%, and as many as 30% of all hospitalized patients experience an adverse drug event during their hospital stay. Nearly half of these adverse drug events are potentially preventable; thus, there is an urgent national imperative for rational and improved medication use. The POP program's training will focus on the relationship between pharmacotherapy and health outcomes, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, informatics, and pharmaceutical policy. The program will prepare students for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, governmental positions related to pharmaceuticals, and academic positions focused on research related to pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. The program core is composed of courses in economics, epidemiology, policy, and econometrics. Prospective graduate students come from a national pool of applicants with backgrounds in pharmacy as well as other fields such as anthropology, biology, business administration, dentistry, economics, epidemiology, gerontology, health administration, medicine, nursing, public health, political science, psychology, public administration, public policy, social work, sociology and other majors. Most entry level students have a professional degree in pharmacy or a related graduate degree with a background or interest in pharmaceutical research.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Degree
MDiv
Study Level
PHD
The UK College of Pharmacy provides PhD candidates the opportunity to train alongside some of the most talented pharmaceutical scientists on the planet. Students get to do so in the world's largest College of Pharmacy facility, thanks to our open and inviting laboratories. The results; a bold and innovative training opportunity. Health care delivery faces the multiple challenges of limited resources, increasing expenditures, increasing expectations, greater complexity, costly new technology, and limited health care access. The need for professionally trained translational pharmaceutical research scientists in analyzing medication outcomes and policy planning has never been greater, as pharmaceutical policy issues become larger and more complex. Our society is accustomed to extensive drug use. In 2001, US physicians prescribed nearly 3 billion prescriptions costing in excess of $150 billion. In 2005, global drug expenditures surpassed $600 billion. But the cost is not just in dollars. In 1997, researchers projected that up to 140,000 deaths are caused annually in the U.S. by adverse events due to legally prescribed medications. Published estimates for the rate of hospital admissions due to adverse drug reactions range from 3-28%, and as many as 30% of all hospitalized patients experience an adverse drug event during their hospital stay. Nearly half of these adverse drug events are potentially preventable; thus, there is an urgent national imperative for rational and improved medication use. The POP program's training will focus on the relationship between pharmacotherapy and health outcomes, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, informatics, and pharmaceutical policy. The program will prepare students for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, governmental positions related to pharmaceuticals, and academic positions focused on research related to pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. The program core is composed of courses in economics, epidemiology, policy, and econometrics. Prospective graduate students come from a national pool of applicants with backgrounds in pharmacy as well as other fields such as anthropology, biology, business administration, dentistry, economics, epidemiology, gerontology, health administration, medicine, nursing, public health, political science, psychology, public administration, public policy, social work, sociology and other majors. Most entry level students have a professional degree in pharmacy or a related graduate degree with a background or interest in pharmaceutical research.
Admission Requirements
6.5+
Applicants must have a baccalaureate degree from a fully accredited institution of higher learning. An overall grade point average of 2.75 on undergraduate work and 3.00 on all graduate work is required by the Graduate School. Individual departments may require higher grade point averages. Other English language requirements: a minimum TOEFL score of 550 (paper-based), 213 (computer-based).
Jan-2000
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