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Instructor of Record:
 

Ludmila Bakhireva, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
UNM College of Pharmacy and Department of Family/Community Medicine
Adjunct Scientist, Lovelace Clinic Foundation
E-mail: lbakhireva@salud.unm.edu
Phone: 505-272-2545
Office: COP building, B74

Participating Faculty:

• Nasreen Khan, Ph.D., M.S.

• Dennis W. Raisch, Ph.D,

• Matthew Borrego, Ph.D.

• Michael Sather, Pharm.D.,M.S.

• Edward Bedrick, Ph.D.

• Ron Schrader, Ph.D.

• Laurie Hudson, Ph.D.

• Margaret Gunter, Ph.D.

• Ingrid Hendrix, MILS, AHIP

Teaching Assistant:
 

Pallavi Jaiswal, PaJaiswal@salud.unm.edu

Class Time: Wednesdays, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Class Location: Domenici Center Room # B102 or VA Cooperative Studies Program, Clinical Research Pharmacy (TBA)

Description:

The PhPr 591 Seminar in Pharmacy Administration is designed to enhance the educational experience for graduate students in all three concentration tracks of the Pharmacoeconomics, Epidemiology, Public Policy, and Outcomes Research (PEPPOR) graduate program: MS in Clinical Trials, MS in Health Service, and PhD in PEPPOR. The course will feature presentations from PEPPOR core faculty, ‘experts in the field’, and group presentations from students. The focus of this semester seminar will be on scientific writing including grant or dissertation/thesis writing.

The Graduate Seminar provides an opportunity for students with a variety of interests to gather and share their experiences in the program and also offers a venue for student input toward improving their educational experience.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. Conduct independent literature search using online bibliographic databases and biomedical libraries.

2. Demonstrate essential skills with reference management software: manage references in EndNote bibliographic database, retrieve references from PubMed directly into EndNote, insert EndNote citations into a word processing document, and build bibliography in word processing document using EndNote.

3. Write key components of any research proposal: Background and Significance section, Specific Aims, and Methods.

4. Understand the theoretical concept behind power calculations and construct power calculation tables for a research project.

5. Write the data analysis plan for a research project.

6. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.

Course Structure:

This seminar is team-taught and will utilize a variety of teaching and learning approaches. It will include presentations from experienced grantwriters, investigators, and NIH study section reviewers, as well as ‘hands-on’ sessions at the UNM library. Students will be asked to jointly develop a mini research proposal and to practice presentation skills.  Students will have a chance to present each section of their proposal during group presentation sessions and incorporate feedback obtained during these presentations into their final version of the proposal. In addition, students will be provided with copies of funded proposals from the PEPPOR faculty. The expectation of the instructors for this course is that students will come to class prepared and will actively participate in the discussion.

Course Evaluation and Grading:

Group Project Assignment: Development of a Research Proposal:  As a group project, students will be asked to develop a research proposal (10 page limit).  Students will follow the general format for a Research Plan as described by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services (Grant Application PHS 398).  Specific sub-sections that must be addressed in the student proposal include: 

1. Specific Aims (1 page)

2. Background and Significance (2 pages maximum);

3. Research Design and Methods (target population, study sample, measures and instruments, procedures for data collection, sample size and statistical power, data analysis plan) (5 pages maximum)

4. References (1-2 pages)

Total: 10 pages maximum

Students will be divided into two groups to work on this assignment. Each written section of the proposal should be turned in two days prior to the group presentation for this specific section (Mondays). The final draft should be submitted on April 29th.

While, the grade will be assigned to each group for the content of the proposal, each student will be evaluated individually for his/her presentation skills. One copy of the proposal will be turned in from each group.

Grading Criteria: Letter Grades   Total 100 points

• Class attendance and participation:  20 points (2/class session)

• Individual presentation skills:  15 points

• Group presentations:  40 points (10/presentation) 
  (Background/Significance, Specific Aims, Methods, Statistical Analysis)

• Final group project presentation:  10 points

• Research proposal (write-up):  15 points

Grading Scale:
 

• 90-100% =A

• 80-89%  = B

• 70-79% = C

• 60-69.9% = D

• Less than 60% = F

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