About Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing, dispensing, and review of drugs and providing additional clinical services. It is a health profession that links health sciences with pharmaceutical sciences and aims to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of drugs. The discipline of Pharmacy has made enormous progress and it is a distinctly independent branch known as Pharmaceutical Sciences. The job of the Pharmacists is to prepare, mix, compound or dispense drugs and medicines, ointments, powder, tablets and injections on the prescription of a medical practitioner. They are concerned with the production of pharmaceutical products, in research and development and in quality control.

About D. Pharm

D.Pharm course is a career-oriented program in the medical field of Pharmacy, designed to familiarize candidates with the basic concepts of pharmaceutical science. The purpose of the program is to prepare students with the necessary skills and academic knowledge for entry-level positions in retail pharmacies as well as pharmaceutical companies. The course essentially provides an overview of the theory, and various principles and practices involved in the science of pharmacy. Components of study within D. Pharma Syllabus include pharmacy software practice, accurate and safe processing of prescriptions, compounding techniques, third party billing, inventory control, adherence to relevant legislation, accurate and confidential record-keeping, and effectively verbal and written communication. Such candidates are prepared to work as members of an interdependent health-care team. They are taught industry ethics including those involving patient-provider relationships, clinical research, and end-of-life care. This course examines other ethical topics such as distribution of scarce resources, use of stem cells, the role of genetic testing, and issues of human cloning. Students are taught to reviews drug approval processes, drug discovery, pharmaceutical applications. They learn about the vast regulatory requirements involved in testing, screening, pre-clinical, and clinical trials of drugs.

D.Pharma course aims to prepare eligible candidates to:

• Fill orders under a pharmacist's supervision, enter client information.
• Identify prescriptions, and process paperwork for orders.
• Understand and apply drug and medical terminology, as well as basic pharmacology.
• Understand drug dosage calculations, commonly used pharmacy computer systems, compounding, and pharmacy practices and procedures.
• Apply the ethics, legislations, and workplace safety regulations applicable to pharmacies.
• The program aims to build elementary basic concepts of pharmaceutical science involving Pharmaceutics, Biochemistry and Clinical Pathology, Pharmacognosy, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Education, Community Pharmacy, etc. in students.

D. Pharm: Eligibility for Admission

Listed below are the minimum criteria which candidates interested in pursuing the course are required to fulfil, in order to be eligible to apply for the course:

• Successful qualification of the 10+2 level of education in any stream, from a recognized educational Board.
• A minimum aggregate score of 50% (45% for SC/ST/OBC candidates) at the 10+2 level.