Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm-D)
Introduction
Pharmacy is a science-based health profession
that is concerned with medicine science and its use in disease treatment and
prevention. It covers the aspects related to the discovery, development,
production, distribution, dispensing, testing, research, etc. of medicine and
is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines while
linking the health sciences with the chemical sciences. The pharmacists are
recognized as medicine custodians and are specialists in medicine science and
clinical use. They are highly trained and qualified healthcare professionals
who perform different roles to ensure patients have optimal health outcomes.
Pharmacy Education
Over the past decades, continuous changes and advances in the
health care system, discoveries of new medicines and the nature of drug therapy
have also led to the development of new paradigms in pharmacy education and
practice. The horizon of the role of the pharmacy profession has also expanded
with specialization in the medical disciplines to include more varied functions
related to health care.
Career Options
The career of Pharmacy
as a profession it opens up avenues in
- Community and Retail Pharmacy
- Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy
- Trainers of other Health Workers
- Occupational Specialists, mainly Industrial Pharmacy engaged in drug/medicine manufacture, quality control, pharmaceutical technology and research
- Academicians, managers, and administrators of pharmaceutical services and systems
- Drug regulators and law enforcers
- Quality Assurance Managers
- Sales and Marketing Managers
- Drug procurement, utilization and supply managers
- Drug information consultants
- Drug research and development experts
- Clinical research
- Home care and Long term care facilities managers
- Promotional pharmacist and Pharmaceutical Marketing managers
- Nuclear pharmacist
Universities which are offering Pharm-D in Pakistan
- University of Veterinary And Animal Sciences
- University of The Punjab
- Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
- University of Sargodha
- University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF)
- Lahore College for Women University
- Forman Christian College
- The University of Lahore
- University of Central Punjab
- Riphah International University
- Quaid-e-azam University
- Shifa Tameer-e-millat University
- The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
- Government College University, Faisalabad
- The University of Faisalabad
- Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
- Gulab Devi Post Graduate Medical Institute
Other universities offering Pharm-D Program are more. Only top
ranked and well-known names of institutes have been mentioned here. All theses
are recognized by Pakistan's Pharmacy Council. Pakistan's Pharmacy Council is
not only responsible for registering pharmacy students, but also for promoting
them.
Note:
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has banned drug
specialists from using their title "Doctor" prefix and coordinated
the territories to promptly induce this choice. Visit the above link for
details,
For detail visit the above mentioned link,
www.dawn.com/news/1198927
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