B.Sc. in Pharmacy
Duration: 4 years
Ayer Tena Campus
Goal of the Department
The general Goal of the B.Pharm Program is to train highly qualified pharmacists who fulfill the essential, minimum common expectations of health care systems worldwide while fulfilling local needs. Graduates would be expected to have the required knowledge, skill, attitude and behavior to support the health care system and to respond to patient needs work in hospital and community pharmacies; drug manufacturing, import and wholesale companies; public health services; academic institutions; pharmaceutical research; drug regulatory body and quality control organizations.
Objectives
The objectives of the B.Sc. in Pharmacy are to enable graduates to:
To train manpower that is more patient‑oriented while still having a broad pharmaceutical knowledge that can easily adapt to working in any of the pharmaceutical services of the country.
To provide practice‑based training so that future pharmacists acquire problem‑solving skills.
To facilitate and assist in the transfer and adaptation of pharmaceutical knowledge.
Graduate Profile
To be effective health care team members, pharmacists need skills and attitudes enabling them to assume many different functions. The concept of the “seven‑star pharmacist” was introduced by WHO and taken up by FIP in 2000 in its policy statement on Good Pharmacy Education Practice to cover these roles: caregiver, decision‑maker, communicator, manager, life‑long learner, teacher and leader. The function of the pharmacist as a researcher was later on added.