University Of Southern Nevada
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Pharmacy Curriculum
The University utilizes the block system of curricular design, which provides students with the opportunity to study one content area intensely. Faculty, using a variety of educational strategies, help students achieve the learning objectives for each block. The program does not award students traditional letter grades (e.g., A, B, C, D or F). However, faculty require students to demonstrate competency by successfully passing every assessment (examination) that is associated with each block. The program also offers a unique experiential training program that places students in a community pharmacy practice setting within the first two weeks after beginning classes in the University.
The curriculum of the University of Southern Nevada College of Pharmacy PharmD program can be divided into two major components: the didactic component and the experiential component.
02. PHAR 680 Complementary Medicine: Drug and Non-drug Therapies
This course is designed to survey and analyze the alternative therapies to traditional Western medicine currently available to patients and clients in the United States with emphasis on identifying the impact and compatibility of these non-drug options with that of FDA approved medications. The areas to be covered include the following: Evidence-based approaches to therapy, Pharmacognosy, Herbal medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, prolotherapy, drug-herb interactions, phytohormone replacement, nutritional therapy, detoxification therapies, manipulative therapies, mind-body medicine, magnetic field therapies, flower essence and aromatherapy, longevity medicine, precautions and recommendations. Instructor: Lacy; Cr.Hr.: 4.