Program of Study
Concurrently enrolled PharmD/Master of Science in healthcare informatics (MSHI) students will be allowed to use some pharmacy courses toward the completion of MSHI electives, and some MSHI courses toward the completion of pharmacy electives. Instead of 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 will take 145 hours in the PharmD program and 27 hours in the MSHI program for a total of 172 credit hours, resulting in a savings of 18 credit hours toward both degrees.
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
Students enrolled in the concurrent program will meet nine credit hours of PharmD external electives with the following courses:
- 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 be required to focus the ImPaCT project on healthcare informatics.
