Spring 2027

Pharmacotherapy IV

Pharmacotherapy IV covers clinical medication management, focusing on oncology and infectious disease therapeutics through pharmacokinetics, drug interactions, and patient counseling.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Cecilia VolkLisa HolleMary Hayney +1 more

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 2.88 GPA, 27.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Use patient and laboratory evidence to design initial regiments and tailor regiments based on patient monitoring and guidelines for specific infections

  • Examine patients’ antimicrobial regiments to minimize potential adverse events and drug-drug interactions

  • Demonstrate the basic biology, microbiology and epidemiology of microorganism and antimicrobial spectra to apply to patients with infectious diseases

  • Implement appropriate antimicrobial stewardship principles for safe and effective antimicrobial use in patients and populations

  • Design a therapeutic regimen consisting of both non-drug and drug elements appropriate for individual cancer patients receiving a specified antineoplastic drug therapy regimen. In selecting drug therapy, consider the patient’s age, disease, clinical condition/severity of illness, concomitant diseases and medications

  • Describe current recommendations for decreasing the risk of developing cancer

  • Describe current recommendations for cancer screening, including physical examinations, serology, and genetic screening

  • Describe factors that affect the pharmacokinetics of antineoplastic chemotherapy, and the extent to which monitoring renal, hepatic, or drug concentrations can be used to titrate or empirically adjust the drug regimen

  • Describe how cytotoxic medications should be prepared and how they should be safely disposed in the inpatient and outpatient environment

  • Describe how reimbursement issues affect the selection of drug and administration of the drug in the outpatient and inpatient environment, and how pharmacy services can facilitate access to the intended therapy

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

PHM PRAC 653, 655 and PHM SCI 623

PHMPRAC 656 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 2.88 GPA, 27.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 2.88 GPA, 27.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 2.88 GPA, 27.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CECILIA VOLK is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LISA HOLLE is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARY HAYNEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

WARREN ROSE is recorded teaching in Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1350

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 2.88 GPA, 27.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.31 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=93 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Oncology and infectious disease therapeutics
  • Pharmacokinetics, dynamics, drug interactions, and patient counseling
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Reimbursement issues and pharmacy services

Skills

  • Designing and tailoring antimicrobial regimens using patient and laboratory evidence
  • Examining antimicrobial regimens to minimize adverse events and drug-drug interactions
  • Designing comprehensive therapeutic regimens for individual cancer patients
  • Applying pharmacokinetic principles to titrate antineoplastic chemotherapy

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.22 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
PHMPRAC 656 · Spring 2027

Pharmacotherapy IV

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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