Pharmacy
56 courses · UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026
PHMD 200A Interprofessional Clinical Foundations I
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- 5
The first course in a four-part series that covers interprofessional patient communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Direct instruction in professionalism, diversity, social determinants of health, kindness, mindfulness, well-being, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
PHMD 200B Interprofessional Clinical Foundations II
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- 2
The second course in four-part series that covers interprofessional communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Direct instruction in professionalism, diversity, social determinants of health, kindness, mindfulness, well-being, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
PHMD 200C Interprofessional Clinical Foundations III
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- 2
The third course in a four-part series that covers interprofessional communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Direct instruction in professionalism, diversity, social determinants of health, kindness, mindfulness, well-being, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
PHMD 200D Interprofessional Clinical Foundations IV
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- 2
The fourth course in a four-part series that covers interprofessional communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Direct instruction in professionalism, diversity, social determinants of health, kindness, mindfulness, well-being, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
PHMD 201A Principles of Pharmacy Practice I
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- 2
The first of a four-part series that covers the function and role of the health care team, Pharmacist Patient Care Process, immunization certification, communication and documentation, informatics, patient safety, interviewing, active listening, management/leadership, careers, resiliency, and student wellness.
PHMD 201B Principles of Pharmacy Practice II
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- 2
The second of a four-part series that covers the function and roles of the health care team, Pharmacist Patient Care Process, immunization certification, communication and documentation, informatics, patient safety, interviewing, active listening, management/leadership, careers, resiliency, and student wellness.
PHMD 201C Principles of Pharmacy Practice III
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- 2
The third of a four-part series that covers the function and role of the health care team, Pharmacist Patient Care Process, immunization certification, communication and documentation, informatics, patient safety, interviewing, active listening, management/leadership, careers, resiliency, and student wellness.
PHMD 201D Principles of Pharmacy Practice IV
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- 2
The fourth of a four-part series that covers the function and role of the health care team, Pharmacist Patient Care Process, immunization certification, communication and documentation, informatics, patient safety, interviewing, active listening, management/leadership, careers, resiliency, and student wellness.
PHMD 202A Self Care I: Conventional and Complementary
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- 2
Educates pharmacy students about healthy lifestyle choices, the importance of mental and physical health, and self-care. Provides students with methods and techniques for dealing with the stressors of a professional educational environment and life challenges.
PHMD 202B Self Care II: Conventional and Complementary
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- 2
The study of nonprescription products, complementary/alternative medicine, and non-pharmacological interventions for select self-treatable medical conditions commonly encountered by the pharmacist. Emphasis on the pharmacist's consultant role in product selection and non-pharmacological recommendations.
PHMD 202C Self Care III: Conventional and Complementary
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- 2
Relates to patients' ability to care for themselves with emphasis on the pharmacist's consultant role and continues to explore self-treatable medical conditions commonly encountered by pharmacists, including non-pharmacologic interventions, nonprescription medications, and complementary/alternative products to treat them.
PHMD 203A Pharmacotherapy Principles to Practice I: Cardiology and Respiratory
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- 8
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers the cardiovascular and respiratory system.
PHMD 203B Pharmacotherapy Principles to Practice II: Gastrointestinal and Nutrition
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- 4
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers the gastrointestinal system and nutrition topics.
PHMD 203C Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice III: Renal and Immunology
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- 7
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers the renal and immune systems.
PHMD 203D Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice IV: Endocrine System
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- 7
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers the endocrine system.
PHMD 203E Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice V: Infectious Disease
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- 6
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers infectious disorders.
PHMD 203F Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice VI: Central Nervous System
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- 5
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers the central nervous system.
PHMD 203G Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice VII: Hematology and Oncologic Disorders
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- 6
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers hematology and oncologic disorders.
PHMD 203H Pharmacotherapy - Principles to Practice VIII: Special Populations and Special Topics
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- 5
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease. Topics include clinical chemistry, clinical toxicology, interprofessional health care, and public health. Covers special populations, ophthalmology, and special topics.
PHMD 204A Information Analytics and Numeracy I: Biostatistics
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- 2
Exposure to basic statistics and techniques that are commonly found in the medical and pharmacy literature, covering descriptive and inferential statistics. Students learn to choose the most appropriate statistical parametric and non-parametric tests and interpret findings from the literature.
PHMD 204B Information Analytics and Numeracy II: Drug Information, Research Methods, and Literature Analysis
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- 3
Addresses development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for biomedical inquiry and discovery, including methods for data retrieval, analysis, interpretation, and synthesis.
PHMD 204C Information Analytics and Numeracy III: Epidemiology
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- 2
Covers distribution of disease and health in groups of people and the factors that influence the distribution, including evaluation of therapeutic and diagnostic treatments and delivery of health care services.
PHMD 205A Molecular Basis of Health and Disease I: Microbiology and Immunology
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- 3
Principles of medical microbiology, immunology, virology, and parasitology. Introduction to classification, morphology, and physiology of microorganisms, particularly those that cause human pathology - bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans, parasite, and worms - and the body's immune response.
PHMD 205B Molecular Basis of Health and Disease II: Microbiology and Immunology
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- 3
Principles of medical microbiology, immunology, virology, and parasitology. Introduction to classification, morphology, and physiology of microorganisms, particularly those that cause human pathology - bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans, parasite, and worms - and the body's immune response.
PHMD 205C Molecular Basis of Health and Disease III: Clinical Chemistry
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- 2
Emphasis on normal human physiology and pathology as it related to clinical chemistry and assessment of disease states with the context of the Pharmacist Patient Care Process. Alterations of clinical chemistry results due to drug therapy are covered.
PHMD 209 Concepts in Pharmacology
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- 4
Provides an overview of the core concepts of pharmacology, including pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Drug mechanism of action is addressed.
PHMD 210 Principles of Pharmacology
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- 3
Provides an overview of the basic principles of pharmacology, covering pharmacodynamics - effects of drugs on the body - and pharmacokinetics - the process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted by the body.
PHMD 211 Principles of Public Health
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- 4
Covers the framework, principles, and core responsibilities of public health research and practice from multidisciplinary perspectives. It also provides the necessary foundation for further studies using crosscutting approaches essential for public health practice.
PHMD 212 Principles of Pharmacogenomics
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- 2
Walks students through the basics of genetics and genomics. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of genetics or genetic testing to assist in patient treatment regimens and evaluation of disease.
PHMD 213 Pharmaceutical Biochemistry
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- 4
Topics include the biological, chemical and cellular roles of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, hormones, enzymes and vitamins. In addition, the chemical and cellular basis of digestion, intermediary metabolism, biological oxidation and metabolic antagonism are discussed.
PHMD 214 Pharmacy Law and Ethics
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- 3
An introduction to California and federal legal requirements that impact pharmacy practice, emphasizing the legal and ethical principles applied by pharmacists in their decision-making. Explores approaches for resolving ethical dilemmas in patient care.
PHMD 215 Health Policy and Pharmacoeconomics
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- 3
Introduces students to the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services in the U.S. The relationship of providers, patients, payers, etc., are analyzed. Management and research principles utilized to manage drug therapy are introduced.
PHMD 216 Clinical Toxicology
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- 2
Fundamentals of pharmacology and mechanisms of action are reinforced and applied to learn the clinical effects of acute/chronic exposure derived from environmental, dietary, occupational and pharmaceutical sources. Students focus on information literacy skills and clinical management of poisonings.
PHMD 220 Medical Physiology with Anatomic Correlates
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- 5
Concepts of physiology and mechanisms of body function at various levels of organization from cellular to organ systems. Emphasis on quantitative understanding of various body processes. Human anatomy is integrated with physiological concepts. Anatomic-physiologic relationships facilitated through virtual labs.
PHMD 230 Cannabis Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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- 2
Provide knowledge about the cannabis plant and the derivative constituents. Introduce the scientific basis for development of cannabis-derived medicinal drug products. Provide evidence-based information to navigate the mass of cannabis information and counsel patients in its use and safety.
PHMD 231 Anti-Aging Pharmacology
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- 2
Addresses why we age and what we can do about it. Introduces the five models of aging. Covers the major pathways of aging and drugs that have been demonstrated to extend lifespan in model systems.
PHMD 232 Pharmacotherapy Principle to Practice: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
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- 2
Integrates principles of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with evidence-based traditional and non-traditional therapies for management and prevention of disease in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapies.
PHMD 240 Mental Health, Medications, and the Media
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- 2
Examines the portrayal of psychiatric disease states and psychoactive drugs through the lens of the media. Critically evaluate documentaries, movies, and television series that portray topics such as drug misuse, psychedelic use, and disease states.
PHMD 241 Travel Health
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- 2
Learn to provide effective pre-travel itinerary-based assessment, planning, and consultation related to vaccine-preventable diseases, prevention of other infectious and non-infectious travel-related diseases, and self-treatable conditions not requiring a diagnosis. Topics include yellow fever, malaria, altitude sickness, and emerging tropical diseases.
PHMD 242 Advanced Cardiology Pharmacotherapy
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- 2
Focuses on cardiology specialty topics such as arrhythmias, acute decompensated heart failure, cardiogenic shock, sudden cardiac arrest, advanced cardiovascular life support, and the pharmacist's role in Code Blue situations, medical devices for hemodynamic monitoring and cardiac support, and heart transplantation.
PHMD 250A Managed Care Pharmacy I
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- 2
Introduction to the principles and practice of managed care pharmacy, including collection and synthesis of clinical data, assessment of economic data, and decision-making for a Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
PHMD 260 Leadership and Management
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- 2
Provide an introduction to various leadership roles in the field of pharmacy, as well as management techniques to engage and inspire team building, cultivate a productive work environment, and develop future leaders in the industry.
PHMD 261 Health Coaching and Wellness for Pharmacists
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- 2
Trains student pharmacists to use health coaching techniques to care for those with different clinical conditions and goals. Reviews adult learning theories and skills, such as motivational interviewing, as they apply to health coaching. Reviews elements of clinician wellness.
PHMD 262 Overcoming Healthcare Disparities in Pharmacy Practice
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- 2
Providing an understanding of the causes for healthcare disparities and then proposing pharmacy practice-based solutions for overcoming them. Engaging with community partners and healthcare professionals for real-world experiences.
PHMD 270 Introduction to Drug Development and Evaluation
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- 2
Introduces drug development fundamentals, including drug discovery, clinical trials, and regulatory approval. It covers the FDA's role in drug safety, formulation optimization, and introduces Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling for predicting drug behavior and enhancing trial efficiency.
PHMD 274A Pharmaceutics I
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- 4
The first in a foundational series designed to develop an understanding of the science behind drug formulation, mechanisms, pharmacokinetics and interconnections with the Pharmacist Patient Care Process.
PHMD 274B Pharmaceutics II
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- 5
The second course in a foundational series designed to develop an understanding of the science behind drug formulation, mechanisms, pharmacokinetics, and interconnections with the pharmacist patient care process. Topics include drug substances, dosage forms, and therapeutic effects. Includes laboratory.
PHMD 274C Pharmaceutics III
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- 4
The final course in a foundational series designed to develop an understanding of the science behind drug formulation, mechanisms, pharmacokinetics,and interconnections with the Pharmacist Patient Care Process.
PHMD 277 Medicinal Chemistry
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- 4
Walks students through medicinal chemistry, broadly defined. Students utilize the knowledge gained in organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, physical chemistry, pharmacology and physiology in an integrated fashion as applied to modern medicinal chemistry. Continuation of Medicinal Chemistry I.
PHMD 280A Scholarly Project I
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- 1
Provides students an opportunity to develop independent thinking, with particular focus on maturing analytical skills. Students are encouraged to develop an independent project, with a mentor, to study pharmacy-related aspects of multiple areas. First phase identifies project focus.
PHMD 280B Scholarly Project II
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- 1
Provides students an opportunity to develop independent thinking, with particular focus on maturing analytical skills. Students develop an independent project, with a mentor, to study pharmacy-related aspects of multiple areas. Phase 2 focuses on final evaluation of project.
PHMD 281 Clinical Trial Design
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- 2
Provide the basic principles for design of randomized clinical trials; provide a foundation in clinical trial phases and design; and recognize key stakeholders in clinical trials.
PHMD 282 Pharmacists Impact through Roles in the Pharmaceutical Industry – Trends and Needs
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- 2
Examines pharmacists’ evolving roles in the pharmaceutical industry, addressing perceptions and impact through industry-focused perspectives and examples from Research and Development, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, and Managed Care to highlight cross-functional collaboration and influence on patient outcomes.
PHMD 290 Doctor of Pharmacy Epilogue
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- 2
Reinforces and assesses student pharmacist’s performance on cumulative learning outcomes; pre-APPE and APPE knowledge, skills, and attitudes; entrustable professional activities; team- and practice-readiness; and to demonstrate that student pharmacists are achieving outcomes required by the ACPE.
PHMD 298 Research Seminar
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- 2
Designed to engage students and expose them to seminar speakers that come to discuss research or case studies in pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy.
PHMD 299 Independent Research
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- 1-4
Supervised investigation and study of topics relevant to the practice of pharmacy not covered in other courses. Intended to facilitate a small number of students performing a deeper dive into topics of particular interest to them.