The required book list is subject to change, including but not limited to deletions or additions of texts or supplements.

UACP has an online bookstore provided through Rittenhouse where you can purchase these titles with a school discount. Our school program ID is "appalachia2008", and full instructions for ordering from Rittenhouse are available here . Books can also be purchased from any distributor of your choice.

• Summer 2008: Class of 2010
• Fall 2008 and Spring 2009: Class of 2011

Summer 2008: Class of 2010

PHA 0210 Drug Information, Clinical Research and Biostatistics
Required textbook: Malone PE, Kier KL, Stanovich JE, Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists. 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; 2006. ISBN: 0071437916. ($56.95)

PHA 215 Pharmacy Administration
Required textbooks: KL Rascati, Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (February 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 0781765447 ISBN-13: 978-0781765442. ($59.95)

Shane P Desselle, David P. Zgarrick, Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings. McGraw-Hill Medical; 1st edition, ISBN-10: 0071418695, ISBN-13: 978-0071418690. ($57.95)

PHA 200 level courses, Pharmacotherapy sequence
Required textbooks: Dipiro, et al., Pharmacotherapy: A pathophysiologic approach. 7th ed. 2008 (Please note that this is a new edition), ISBN: 007147899X. ($175)

Fall 2008 and Spring 2009: Class of 2011

PHA 0100 Health Systems
Required textbook:
Robert L. McCarthy, Kenneth W. Schafermeyer. Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists. Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 4th edition (2007), ISBN-10: 0-7637-4353-4, ISBN-13: 9780763743536. ($77.95)

PHA 0140 Communications
Required textbooks:
Beardsley R S, Kimberlin C L, Tindall W N. (2007) Communication skills in pharmacy practice, 5th edition, 2007, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. ISBN: 0781765986. ($40.95)

Reinders T, The Pharmacy Professionals Guide to Resumes, CVs, & Interviewing, 2nd Edition with CD-ROM, 2005,  ISBN: 1582120765. ($39.95)

DA Gettman, D Arneson, Pharmacoethics: A Problem-Based Approach. ISBN-10: 1587160358, ISBN-13: 978-1587160356. ($84.95)

Recommended reference books:
Berger B A. Communication Skills for Pharmacists. ISBN: 1582120803

Groopman J. How Doctors Think. ISBN: 0618610030

PHA 0112 Biochemistry
Required textbook:
Michael A Lieberman, Allan Marks, Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A clinical approach, 3nd edition, 2006, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; ISBN-10: 078177022X, ISBN-13: 978-0781770224. ($69.95)

Recommended reference book:
RK Murray, DK Granner, PA Mayes, VW Rodwell, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry (Harper's Biochemistry), 27th ed., 2006, ISBN: 0071461973. ($47.95)

PHA 0112, 0145 - 0170 (Fall and Spring P1 year) Physiology
(If you did not keep your text from your Anatomy and Physiology course, it is recommended you purchase a medical physiology book for review purposes. Physiology is reviewed in all biomedical coursework):

Recommended reference books:
Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology. Publisher: Saunders; 11 edition (2005), ISBN-10: 0721602401, ISBN-13: 978-0721602400

WF Ganong, Review of Medical Physiology, McGraw-Hill, 22nd edition (2005) ISBN-10: 0071440402.

PHA 0112, 0145 - 0170 (Fall and Spring P1 year; Pharmacology is reviewed throughout the biomedical and clinical coursework) Pharmacology
Required textbook:
Basic and clinical pharmacology (Katzung), 10th edition, 2006, ISBN: 0071451536. ($64.95)

Recommended reference books:
Brunton,  Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 11th edition, 2005, ISBN: 0071422803. ($155)

Brody's Human Pharmacology: Molecular to Clinical  Minneman, ISBN: 0323032869.

Medical pharmacology and therapeutics (Waller), ISBN: 0702027545.

Golan et al., Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Therapy, 2nd edition, 2007, ISBN: 0781783550. (69.95 / workbook $42.95)

PHA 0112, 0145 - 0170 (Fall and Spring P1 year) Pathophysiology (reviewed in all biomedical and clinical coursework)
Required textbook:
McPhee, Pathophysiology of Disease. 5th ed. 2005,ISBN: 007144159X. ($61.95)

PHA 0112, 0145 - 0170 (Fall and Spring P1 year) Medicinal Chemistry
Required textbooks:
Review of Organic Functional Groups: Introduction to Medicinal Organic Chemistry, Lemke, 4th ed., 2003, ISBN: 978-0781743815. ($42.95)

Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Williams, 6th ed. 2007, ISBN: 0781768799 ($92.95) 

Recommended reference books:
John Block, John M Beale, Wilson & Gisvold's Textbook of Organic Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 11th edition, 2003. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN-10: 0781734819, ISBN-13: 978-0781734813. ($88.95)

Thomas Nogrady, Donald F. Weaver, Medicinal Chemistry: A Molecular and Biochemical Approach, 3rd ed. ISBN: 0195104560

Graham Patrick, An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry, 3rd ed. ISBN: 0-19-927500-9

Gareth Thomas, Fundamentals of Medicinal Chemistry, ISBN: 0470843071

L. G. Wade, Organic Chemistry, 6th ed. ISBN: 0131699571

PHA 120 Pharmaceutical Calculations
Required textbook:
Ansel, H.C.,  and Stoklosa, M.J., Pharmaceutical Calculations, 12th ed., 2005, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, ISBN: 0781762650. ($64.95)

Calculator: TI-30 X II S or TI-30 X II B, (retail calculator: $21.95)

PHA 125 Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
Required textbooks:
Allen, L.V., Popovich, N.G., and Ansel. H.C. Ansel’s Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems, 8th edition, 2004, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN: 0781746124. ($59.95)

Recommended reference books:
Hillery A.M., Lloyd A.W., and Swarbrick, J.  Drug Delivery and Targeting for Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 0-415-27198-3.

Sinko, P.J. Martin’s Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN: 0-7817-5027-X

Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, ISBN: 0781746736.

PHA 130 Immunology and Hematology
Required textbook:
Coico, Sunshine and Benjamini, Immunology: A Short Course; 5th edition, Wiley-Liss, ISBN-10: 0471226890, ISBN-13: 978-0471226895. ($63.95)

PHA 175, 260 (Spring P1 year and Fall P2 year) Pharmaceutics and Compounding Laboratory
Required textbook:
Thomson, J.E., and Davidow, L.W. A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN: 0781741777. ($69.95)

Long (knee length) lab coat (recommended over the shorter “clinical” lab coat), safety goggles.

Recommended reference book:
Rowe, R.C., Sheskey, P.J., and Owen, S.C. Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, APhA, ISBN: 1582120587

PHA 135, 300 (Fall P1 year and Summer P3 year) Pharmacy Law
Required textbook:
Abood, Pharmacy Practice and the Law, 5th ed., 2007, ISBN: 0763749788. ($87.95)

PHA 0180 (Spring P1 year) OTC:
Required textbook:
Berardi et al., Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs:  An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 15th ed., 2006, ISBN: 1582120749. ($149.00)

PHA 0210 Drug Information, Clinical Research and Biostatistics
Required textbook:
Malone PE, Kier KL, Stanovich JE,  Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists. 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; 2006. ISBN: 0071437916. ($56.95)

PHA 215 (Summer P2 year) Pharmacy Administration
Required textbooks:
KL Rascati, Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (February 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 0781765447 ISBN-13: 978-0781765442. ($59.95)

Shane P Desselle, David P. Zgarrick,  Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings. McGraw-Hill Medical; 1st edition, ISBN-10: 0071418695, ISBN-13: 978-0071418690. ($57.95)

Pharmacotherapy sequence (Please note: “Dipiro” is required for second year students; however, first year students may find this book particularly useful as we integrate fundamental basic science concepts into the therapeutic uses of medication):

Required textbooks:
Dipiro, et al., Pharmacotherapy: A pathophysiologic approach. 7th ed. 2008 (Please note that this is a new edition), ISBN: 007147899X. ($175)

Recommended reference books:
Perry MC.  The Chemotherapy Source Book.  Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 4th Ed. 2008.

PHA 200 (Summer P2 year) Pharmacokinetics (reviewed throughout pharmacotherapy sequence):
Required textbook:
Dipiro, J.T., Spruill, W.J., and Wade, W.E., Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 4th Ed., 2005, ISBN: 1585281247. ($70.00)

Recommended reference books:
Rowland, M., and Tozer, T.N., Clinical Pharmacokinetics Concepts and Applications Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, ISBN: 0-683-07404-0

Shargel, L., Wu-Pong, S., and Yu, A.B.C., Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, McGraw Hill, ISBN: 0-07-137550-3

PHA 250 (Spring P2 year) Physical Assessment:
Required textbook:
L. Bickley, Bate’s guide to physical assessment, 9th ed., 2007, ISBN: 0781785197. ($89.95)

Marjorie Canfield Willis, Medical Terminology: A Programmed Learning Approach to the Language of Health Care.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2 edition, 0781792835; ISBN-13: 978-0781792837

Recommended reference books:
RM Jones, Patient assessment in pharmacy practice, ISBN: 0683302566. ($62.95)

Other recommended and supplemental reading material may be assigned by course instructors and will be included in course syllabi or other course related resources.