Additional Courses
Students also take additional required courses (ten credits for Pharmacology, twelve for Pharmaceutics) and nine credits of graduate level elective courses in their area of emphasis.
Additional required didactic graduates courses for the Pharm.D./Ph.D. in Pharmacology
PCOL 6462 Cardiovascular and Renal Pharmacology. 4. Cr.
PCOL 7362 Neuropharmacology. 3 Cr.
PCOL 7350 Cellular Pharmacology. 3. Cr.
Additional required didactic graduates courses for the Pharm.D./Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics
PCEU 6342 Advanced Pharmaceutics I. 3 Cr.
PCEU 6345 Advanced Pharmaceutics II. 3 Cr.
PCEU 7340 Advanced Drug Delivery. 3 Cr.
PCEU 7350 Fundamental Laboratory Methods. 3 Cr.
Further, students are given credit for an additional 3-6 credit hours of didactic courses in the Ph.D. program because they take equivalent courses in the Pharm.D. program. Therefore, students will take an additional 22-23 credit hours of didactic and 24 hours of research courses prior to completion of their Ph.D. program. Special problems courses may account for no more than half of the research credits. The elective courses are to be selected in consultation with the student’s Dissertation Committee. The Dissertation Committee may make minor changes in the proportion of graduate-level didactic to research courses in the student’s plan of study. The courses will be predominantly from the course offerings in the College of Pharmacy and the respective discipline. Some courses may be taken at other colleges in the University and/or from institutions at the Texas Medical Center. Pharm.D./Ph.D. candidates must participate in all the academic activities of both the professional and graduate programs. Examples of these activities include: attending and presenting seminars; literature review classes, participation at state and national professional/scientific meetings.
Students are encouraged to select a major professor as soon as possible after admittance into the combined program. If the student has not selected a major professor by year three of the program, the Director of Graduate Studies will serve as major professor until a selection has been made. The dissertation committee shall consist of the major professor as Chair, two additional faculty members within the major department, and two members from outside of the college (at UH or elsewhere) meeting specific criteria as defined in the committee appointment form.
A cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (A=4.00) must be maintained in all required Ph.D. courses. Students receiving a grade of C or lower in courses within a Ph.D. degree plan, totaling 8 credit hours or more, will be dismissed from the Ph.D. program. A graduate course in which a “D” grade is earned must be repeated and a “B” grade earned. Dismissal from the combined program will occur with a grade of “F” in either a Pharm.D. or a graduate course. In addition to coursework, the students must pass a qualifying examination, defend their research proposal, complete an original research project, write a doctoral dissertation and successfully defend the dissertation before their dissertation committee.