FRM5610 – Pharmacoeconomics
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
An introduction in basic economics, with particular emphasis on topics with relevance to pharmacoeconomics, is given. Further one goes more in depth in the subject of pharmacoeconomics through presentation of methodology, need and how and where it can come in use.
Learning outcome
The course aims at giving an introduction to how the pharmaceutical market works, in relation to a free-competition market, and why it is regarded as necessary to regulate the pharmaceutical market. The student will require an understanding of how pharmacoeconomic evaluations can be conducted and how society can benefit from them.
Admission to the course
The course is only available to students who have passed their pharmacy apprenticeship and have passed all previous pharmacy courses or have the equivalent academic background.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
The course is only available to students who have passed their pharmacy apprenticeship and have passed all previous pharmacy courses or have the equivalent academic background.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with FRM9610.
Teaching
Lectures and seminars.
Inactivity and / or excessive absences in compulsory education means that the student does not receive final assessment / examination.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
The course can be canceled if the number of students enrolled is low.
Examination
A four hour written exam/oral exam after the number of students.
Examination support material
As of 1 August, 2016, the use of own calculators is no longer permitted. Casio FX-991EX calculators are handed out to all exam candidates at the beginning of the exam.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
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