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Graduate Programs
Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (PHSR)
The primary mission of the Pharmaceutical Health Services Research program at the University of Maryland is to train strong researchers in a variety of important areas. It provides graduates with the theory, practical experience, and decision-making skills needed to address a wide range of pharmacy related problems.
The widespread use of medications in society has created a demand for individuals skilled in the evaluation of pharmaceutical services and interventions. The dynamic health care environment has created a number of critical factors that are constantly shaping and reshaping the health policies of the United States and countries around the world. Pharmaceutical services are a vital part of health care, and factors affecting health care inevitably impact on pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry, and pharmacy practitioners. Some of the factors that are of academic and research interest include:
- the role of the Federal and State governments in health care policy
- third-party programs
- drug utilization
- cost containment
- medication compliance
- provision of pharmaceutical services
- role of health practitioners
- diffusion of new technologies into the medical care setting.
Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC)
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate program prepares independent, creative scientists to excel in various scientific fields. Our graduates will be educated with the knowledge and skills to direct the discovery of novel biological pathways in human disease and the development and delivery of medications for safe and effective therapy.
The School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences has a rapidly expanding research program in the areas of cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, neuroscience and pharmacology, biopharmaceutics and drug delivery and clinical pharmaceutical sciences. Faculty and graduate students in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences are organized into Research Pathways. The mission of each Research Pathway is to foster individual and collaborative research, faculty growth, and a graduate student education which provides a strong, broad background in the drug development process along with intensive expertise in a focal research area of the pharmaceutical sciences.