药学理学硕士课程提供以下四个领域的课程：临床药学，药物和天然产物化学，药学社会经济学和药学。临床药学领域是为对临床研究感兴趣的学生而设计的。该计划的目标是促进人类药理学和治疗学的发展，并提高患者安全，有效和经济地使用药物的方法。该计划强调临床和基础研究的整合。它涉及临床药理学，药代动力学，药效学，药物遗传学和新药监管批准要求的高级研究。
The graduate program in pharmacy at the University of Iowa is primarily a PhD program with admission preference given to applicants with a PhD degree objective. Admission to the MS in pharmacy is granted under special circumstances only, which may include international government funding requirement, a Fulbright scholarship or another scholarship source that specifies a master's degree, or a person working in the industry seeking a specific set of knowledge or skills for the purpose of enhancing their value to that employer. A master's degree is not required to be eligible to apply to the PhD program.<br><br>Graduates will exhibit the ability to demonstrate both subject matter expertise and the ability to critically evaluate the current state of knowledge in that area of expertise, understand the fundamental concepts and applications of current methodology and techniques for the conduct and evaluation of research in their area of expertise, demonstrate the ability to conduct research under the direction of a faculty member and interact successfully with other members of a research team and effectively communicate research findings in both written and oral formats