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Advisory Committee
A. The Division Chair or his/her designee shall serve as a student's advisory during the period prior to the selection of a major advisor. B. The graduate student shall select a major professor from among the graduate faculty members of the Division no later than the 3rd quarter of enrollment.
C. An advisory committee shall be appointed no later than the end of the third quarter of student enrollment. Membership of the advisory committee shall consist of at least four members of the faculty. At least two members, including the major professor, must be members of the Graduate Faculty and at least two members must be members of the Department of Pharmacal Sciences.
D. An initial meeting of the advisory Committee should be scheduled during the second year of enrollment of the student for the purpose of discussing the student's dissertation research project. At this time the Committee may advise the student on the appropriateness of the project relative to Ph.D. candidate research. Additional meetings of the Advisory Committee are scheduled to monitor the progress of the student.
Plan of Study
A. The student’s major field of study shall consist of a discipline of the Pharmacal Sciences chosen as an area of research interest. A minor area of specialization may be selected from a discipline allied to the pharmaceutical sciences.
B. A minimum of 30 semester hours of graded (e.g. A ,B, C) graduate coursework (7000-level and above) beyond the bachelor's degree, at least 18 hours of which must be completed as a graduate student at Auburn University. A doctoral student must also complete 30 semester hours of additional course work (may include ungraded courses, 6000 level courses, 7990 and minimum 10 hours 8990).
C. Core Curricula
Medicinal Chemistry
PY 7320 (3 hours) Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs I
PY 7240 (3 hours) Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs II
PY 7250 (3 hours) Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs III
PY 6230 (5 hours) Synthesis of Drugs
PY 7260 (4 hours) Analytical and Control Methods I
PY 7270 (4 hours) Analytical and Control Methods II
PY 2600 (3 hours) Heterocyclic Medicinal Chemistry
CH 7200 (3 hours) Advanced Organic Chemistry I
CH 7220 (3 hours) Advanced Organic Chemistry II
Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology/Toxicology
Common Core (23 hours):
PY 7010 (4 hours) Pharmacokinetics
PY 6370 (3 hours) Fundamentals of Bionucleonics
PY 2260 (4 hours) Analytical and Control Methods I
STAT 7000 (3 hours) Biostatistics I
STAT 7010 (3 hours) Biostatistics II
Optional Course list - (Minimum of 30 credit hours):
PY 7030 (4 hours): Drug Product Development
PY 7050 (3 hours): Novel Dosage Forms
PY 7060 (3 hours): Formulation and Delivery of Peptide/Protein Drugs
PY 7080 (3 hours): Advanced Biopharmaceutics
PY 7110 (3 hours): Stability/Reaction/ Kinetics of Pharm.
PY 7310 (3 hours): Psychopharmacology I
PY 7320 (3 hours): Psychopharmacology II
PY 7500 (2 hours): Metabolism and Disposition of Xenobiotics
PY 6360 (3 hours): Cellular Pharmacology
PY 7270 (3 hours): Analytical and Control Methods II
PY 6390 (3 hours): Neuropharmacology of Drugs of Abuse
PY 6310 (4 hours): Pharmacology I
PY 6320 (4 hours): Pharmacology II
PY 6330 (4 hours): Pharmacology III
PY 6390 (3 hours): Immunobiology
CMBL 6501 (2 hours): Lab
VBMS 7000 (5 hours): Neuroanatomy Lecture 3, Lab 4
VBMS 7160 (3 hours): Neurosciences
VBMS 7120 (5 hours): Membrane Physiology Lecture 2, Lab 3
VBMS 7110 (5 hours): Cardiology
PYSC 8540 (3 hours): Behavioral Pharmacology
PYSC 6610 (3 hours): Behavioral Effects of Environ. Contaminants
Language Requirements
none
Doctoral Examination
General Examinations: A general examination (A preliminary examination) is required of all candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Pharmaceutical Sciences. This examination shall consist of a written and oral portion and is to be administered by the policies set forth in the following sections.
Written Examination
A. The major professor and graduate student will select and schedule a one week (5 consecutive working days) 20 hour period for the examination. The examination should be scheduled after the student has completed the formal coursework listed on their Plan of Study to the satisfaction of the advisory committee. The Department Head should be notified, in writing, of the scheduled date.
B. Members of the student's advisory committee, as well as other graduate faculty members of the division should be contacted about the scheduled written examination and invited to submit questions in writing. The advisory committee may solicit, at their discretion, questions from other graduate faculty members of the Department. Examiners should be contacted at least two weeks prior to the first day of the scheduled examination week.
C. The major professor shall collect and collate all submitted questions and prepare a draft examination. The major professor should distribute copies of the draft examination to all examiners to ensure that the examination is representative of the appropriate area(s) of study, appropriately challenging and that the examination can be completed within the one week examination period (20 hours) allocated. If necessary, the major professor should contact examiners to make appropriate modifications in the examination.
D. The major professor shall divide the examination into appropriate portions and administer the examination to the graduate student during the examination week. The graduate student shall complete one portion of the examination each day over a time period of approximately four hours.
E. The major professor shall collect the completed examination and distribute the appropriate sections to the faculty examiners for grading. Each examiner should grade his/her portion using an appropriate (percentage or letter) grade and indicate if the score is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. The graded exam portions shall be returned to the major professor within one week. The major professor shall then prepare a report including all scores and comments (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) and a recommendation of pass or fail based on general subject areas as follows:
- Overall Pass: The student has demonstrated proficiency in all general subject areas and successfully completed the written examination.
- Partial Pass/Fail: The student has demonstrated proficiency in some general subject areas, but was deficient in one or more general subject areas.
- Overall Fail: The students performance in all general subject areas was unsatisfactory.
F. The major professor and advisory committee shall draft and sign a final report recommending one of the following:
1. The student has passed the written examination (overall pass).
2. The student has demonstrated proficiency in the identified general subject area(s) and has passed this (these) portion(s) of the written examination. The student=s performance in other identified general subject area(s) was determined to be deficient and the committee recommends one of the following:
a. The student should be re-examined in this (these) general subject area(s). The reexamination should be scheduled within one month from the time of this notification.
b. The student must successfully complete specified coursework in these general subject areas. The criteria for successful completion will be established by the major professor and advisory committee.
c. The student should complete specific remedial work in these general subject areas under the direction of the major professor and approved by the advisory committee (i.e. Directed Readings, etc.).
3. The student has failed the written examination (overall fail). The committee may recommend that the student be re-examined or discontinued in the Ph.D. program. The student may be re-examined one time, and re-examination should not be scheduled until three months after the original written examination was administered to allow the student adequate time to prepare.
G. The major professor shall notify, in the form of a memorandum, the student and the Department Head of the final recommendations of the advisory committee. The major professor and advisory committee will indicate approval of the final recommendations by signing the notification.
Oral Examination
An oral examination shall be held within 3 months after successful completion of the written examination. The oral examination shall consist of preparation and oral defense of an original research proposal by the student. The scheduling of the oral examination requires approval by the Graduate School.
1. Preparation: The student shall draft a brief summary of the research proposal and obtain approval from the major professor and Advisory Committee to proceed with the preparation of the full research proposal. The major professor and Advisory Committee should determine that the proposed research is different from the student=s dissertation research. The proposal should be prepared using current PHS/NIH application forms and should describe a research project of two or more years duration. The completed proposal shall be distributed to members of the Advisory Committee no later than 7 working days before the scheduled oral defense.
2. Defense: The student shall present the original research proposal as a Department seminar and defend the proposal before the advisory committee. The advisory committee may allow, at their discretion, other graduate faculty members of the Department to participate in the oral defense. The committee may recommend that: 1) the proposal is satisfactory and the student has passed the oral examination, 2) the student has passed the oral examination but the proposal requires minor modification, 3) the proposal and/or the student's oral defense was unsatisfactory. Successful completion of the oral examination requires unanimous support of the student's advisory committee. If unsatisfactory, a re-examination may be given upon recommendation of the advisory committee and approval by the Dean of the Graduate School. The re-examination will be scheduled within three months after a failed examination.
Final Examination
The student shall participate in an oral defense of the dissertation research project. At least one full quarter shall intervene between preliminary and final examinations. The final examination shall be administered by members of the student's Advisory Committee and a Graduate School representative.
A. A dissertation constituting a complete description of the student's research project is required of all candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmaceutical Sciences).
B. The student shall make draft copies of the dissertation that have been approved by the major professor available to members of the advisory committee for review.
C. After the draft copies have been reviewed by the advisory committee, the student shall submit the dissertation to the Graduate School for review and approval.
D. An outside reader will be appointed by the Graduate School to review the dissertation. The major professor may request appointment of an outside reviewer at an earlier time.
E. After the dissertation has been approved by the Graduate School, the student may apply for scheduling of the Final Examination. This application must be filed with the Graduate School at least one week in advance of the date for the Final Examination.
F. The student shall make copies of the approved dissertation available to participants of the Final Examination no later than 10 working days prior to the scheduled date of the examination.
G. The student shall present a Department seminar describing the dissertation research project prior to the time scheduled for the Final Examination.
H. The Final Examination is administered by the student's Advisory Committee with the participation of the Graduate School's outside reader. Any member of the Graduate Faculty may attend the Final Examination.
I. Successful completion of the Final Examination requires unanimous support of all members of the advisory committee. If the committee determines that the student has failed the Final Examination, a re-examination may be given on recommendation of the advisory committee and approval by the Dean of the Graduate School. Further examination requires exceptional circumstances and approval of the Graduate Council.
In addition to successful completion of all examinations, final copies of the dissertation must be submitted to the Graduate School before the Ph.D. degree is conferred. The student is urged to consult the University Calendar for deadlines.
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