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 701 occurs in the fall of the third professional year and focuses on neurology, psychiatry and substance abuse. 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.