Pharmacotherapeutics (PT) consists of NINE courses that start in the spring of your first professional year and continues through your third professional year of the doctor of pharmacy program (PharmD). PHM 501 occurs in the spring of the first professional year and focuses on foundational concepts related to the health care environment and application of clinical laboratory data. Upon completion of the course sequence, you should be able to use the PharmacistsÂż Patient Care Process and advance the level of clinical patient management through the understanding and utilization of pharmacotherapeutic principles. Topics in the remaining course sequence in the second and third professional years focus on individual disease management.