Program Offered
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
Eligibility Criteria
Duration
Affiliation/ Recognition
60% Score in FSc. Pre Medical or Equivalent
5 Years Degree Program
University of the Punjab/Pharmacy Council of Pakistan
Pharmacy Technician
Eligibility Criteria
Duration
Affiliation/ Recognition
10th Standard with science
2 Years Diploma Program
Pharmacy Council of Pakistan
Pharmacy is the fastest growing, dynamic profession offering a wealth of
opportunities. The community pharmacy was established in America since the
1920s. The first clinical pharmacy program to adopt as adegree of Doctor of
Pharmacy (PharmD) program was the University of Southern California in 1950.
Higher professional standing began to enter in the profession from 1960s onward. In
the past more focus was on the subjects like basic sciences of chemistry and
physics; medicine-related subjects such as pharmacognosy, botany, pharmacology,
physiology, and public health; and practice-related subjects such as small-scale
pharmaceutical manufacturing, prescription filling, and retail sales operations. But
now, the Pharmaceutical Curriculum comprises of all information on diagnosis and
treatment of disease. Time has come that a pharmacist has a duty to assist their
“customers” as to how to “the cure for an ailment,” they have to treat a disease
without or contrary to a prescription from a physician.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry:
Pharmaceutical chemistry is the backbone of pharmacy. It includes organic
chemistry, biochemistry, analytical chemistry and medicinal chemistry. The highly
knowledgeable pharmaceutical chemists plays a crucial role by interacting with
scientists of other disciplines, such as molecular biology, structural biology,
pharmacology, physical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutical
technology, toxicology or with experts from the field of translational medicine, etc.
The medicinal chemistry is concerned with the drug designingand synthesis of
biologically active molecules. The main domains of Pharmaceutical chemistry is the
drug designing; stability, method development, validation and quality control of
drugs.
Pharmaceutics:
Pharmaceutics is the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and
medicines. The subject Pharmaceutics is associated with all the stages that follows
the discovery or synthesis of the drug, its isolation and purification, and testing for
advantageous pharmacological effects and absence of serious toxicological
problems. It deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form.
In simple word we can say– “pharmaceutics converts a drug into a medicine”. The
main subject covers Physical Pharmacy,Dosage Form, Community and
Dispensing, Forensic, Biopharmaceutics, Industrialand Pharmaceutical Technology.
Pharmacology:
Pharmacology is the science of drugs and their effect on living systems. It is the
science explaining as to what is happening to your body and to the drug action
itself.It involves looking at the interaction of chemical substances with the systems
in our bodies, as well as identifying ways in which our biological systems affect
drugs.Pharmacologists are medical scientists who devote their careers to
developing new drugs and evaluating their safety and effectiveness. Pharmacists,
who dispense medications
Pharmacognosy:
The study of crude drugs of plant and animal origin. Pharmacognosy specialized in
the authentication and quality, as evaluated macroscopically and microscopically, of
crude drugs that were mainly of plant origin. Heinrich et al., 2004, stated that it is
the science of biogenic or naturally derived pharmaceuticals and poisons. It deals
with medicinal plants as crude herbs or extracts, pure natural compounds and foods
having health benefits. Research in pharmacognosy includes phytochemistry,
microbial chemistry, biosynthesis, biotransformations, chemotaxonomy and other
biological and chemical sciences. In the past 50 years, the focus is made on
phytochemistry and biological activities of natural products.
Clinical Pharmacy:
Clinical pharmacy is a health science discipline in which pharmacists provide
patient care that optimizes medication therapy and promotes health, and disease
prevention. Pharmacists review records of patients to determine the
appropriateness of medication therapy. Evaluating patient’s condition to ensure all
issues are being treated. Future pharmacists should be concerned with advancing
the profession as a whole, do the analysis of population regarding medicines, way of
administration, pattern of use, drug’s effect on patient.
Pharmacy Practice:
The “Practice of Pharmacy” means the interpretation, evaluation, and
implementation of Medical Orders; it includes more traditional roles such as
compounding and dispensing of medications, participation in Drug and Device
selection; Drug Administration; Clinical Services, Reviewing Medications for safety
and efficacy, and providing drug information; the Practice of Telepharmacy within
and across state lines.
Scope:
Government Sector
He can establish his Career As Hospital Pharmacist in all most all Government
sector hospitals
Drug Testing Laboratory
Forensic Science
DRAP
Teaching
Drugs Inspector
Clinical Pharmacist
Private Sector
Research institutes
Teaching institutes
Retail pharmacy
NGOs
Pharmaceutical industry
Nutra-ceutical Industry
Cosmetic Industry
Marketing Sector
Distribution Sector
Supply chain
Abroad
He can registered his Self as practicing Pharmacist in Different Countries by
attempting its test
Canada
America
Australia
United Kingdom
Norway
Middle East
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