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Pharm 4832 or Health Care Systems (HCS) is a former College of Pharmacy elective updated for use in the PharmD. program. HCS is a two-hour credit course, and it was first taught during the Summer 1998 semester.
The major theme of HCS is to discuss the nature of the health care system in the United States and the interface of pharmacy with this system. Among the topics which will be tentatively included this summer are:
a model of the health care delivery system
what is health
the nature of the sick role and the Health Belief Model
health care costs-now and the future
major components of the US system that are of particular interest to pharmacists
Hot topics of the day, including events in managed care, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical care, and others
the growing movement of alternative medicine
issues driving health care policy
pharmacy's future in the health care system
examination of movies with pharmacy as a theme
examination of leadership issues using The Caine Mutiny
The format of the course will be both lecture and discussion. Suggestions for topics from students are highly encouraged. Please contact Dr. Benny French for additional information.
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