About this course

What Is Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences, and it is charged with ensuring the safe use of medication. It deals with collection, preparation, and standardization of drugs. The scope of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medications on the orders of physicians, and it also includes more modern services related to patient care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information. Pharmacy is regarded as one of the most trusted professions in the world. Pharmacy has always been an exciting and rewarding career, but has recently become on the most pursued fields in the health care industry.

Pharmacy at JUW

The faculty of Pharmacy was set up by the founder Al-HAj Maulvi Riaz-ud-Din Ahmed in the year 2002 and introduce B.Pharm (4 years degree Program ) with an aim to produce technically trained personnel in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology & to promote the Technical Education in general. In the light of the recommendation of Pharmacy Council of Pakistan and Higher Education Commission, the Faculty of Pharmacy has adopted Pharm. D. (extending over a period of five years) as the basic degree in Pharmacy in 2003. B-Pharm as well as Pharm-D both are recognized by Pharmacy Council of Pakistan.

The faculty has spacious class rooms and well-equipped advanced laboratories with modern pharmaceutical manufacturing equipments and analytical instruments, magnificent spacious, well furnished Library & reading room with more than 30000 books available in reading room and circulation.

The faculty provides Clinical Internship/Clerkship in a teaching hospital of 200 active credit hours as a part of Pharm-D course requirement and to provide an opportunity to Pharm-D students to participate in patient care rounds with multi-professional team .

Over the years, the faculty has gone a long way in advancing its teaching and research pursuits in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The faculty developed MS. and Ph. D Programs in Regulatory Affairs in 2011.

To provide career guidance and to discuss professional scope in the domain of pharmacy practice, subject experts and specialists from industrial and clinical domain are invited to deliver expert knowledge and opinion with academic references in a routine manner with each semester.

Faculty also arrange study visits in different local and multinational pharmaceutical industries with a great focus on advanced formulation techniques, aerosol and inhalation formulation, GMP implications, quality control and management .

The teaching faculty comprises of highly qualified and devoted staff. Most of them have the basic professional degree of Pharm-D with additional qualifications of M. Phil and Ph. D. They excel in teaching skills and are research motivated with considerable experience of pharmaceutical industry.

Careers:

Pharmacists are considered one of the most visible and one of the most accessible health care professionals in the world. Pharmacists work in a number of different settings include: retail, hospitals, clinics, home health care facilities, home infusion facilities, long-term care facilities, managed care facilities, Armed Services, mail service, internet companies, public health service, veterans administration, local, state, and federal government, association management, community pharmacy, consultant pharmacy, pharmaceutical sales and marketing, drug research and development, managed care, universities and numerous other settings.

Contact Details:

Faculty of Pharmacy,
Jinnah University for Women,
5-C Nazimabad, Karachi-74600, Pakistan.
Tel: (92-21)36619902, 36620857-59, 36620615
Fax: 36620614
E-mail: [email protected]

Scheme Of Courses For Ph. D

in five disciplines

PH.D COURSES IN PHARMACOLOGY

Code

Subject

Cr. Hr.

PHL 901

Seminars and project proposals

3

PHL 902

Computer Applications in Pharmacy

3

PHL 903

Cancer chemotherapy

3

PHL 904

Chemotherapy antimicrobials and antiparasitic

3

PHL 905

Research methodology

3

PHL 906

Clinical pharmacology

3

PHL 907

Cardiovascular I

3

PHL 908

Cardiovascular II

3

Out of 8 courses students have to opt 6 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

PH.D COURSES IN PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY

Code

Subject

Cr. Hr.

PHC 901

Seminars and project proposals

3

PHC 902

Computer Applications in Pharmacy

3

PHC 903

Advances in Medicinal Chemistry

3

PHC 904

Advances in Determining Structure of Molecules

3

PHC 905

Current approaches in Drug Designing

3

PHC 906

Drug development

3

PHC 907

Research Methodology

3

PHC 908

Kinetic methods of analysis

3

Out of 8 courses students have to opt 6 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M. PH.D COURSES IN PHARMACOGNOSY

Code

Subject

Cr. Hr.

PHG 901

Seminars and project proposals

3

PHG 902

Computer Applications in Pharmacy

3

PHG 903

Research methodology

3

PHG 904

Herbal Bioequivalence

3

PHG 905

Structure elucidation of natural product

 

PHG 906

Biosynthesis of natural products

3

PHG 907

Phytomedicine

3

PHG 908

Standardization of phytomedicine

3

Out of 8 courses students have to opt 6 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M. PH.D COURSES IN PHARMACEUTICS

Code Subject Cr. Hr.
PHT 901 Seminars and Project Proposals 3
PHT 902 Computer Applications in Pharmacy 3
PHT 903 Research Methodology in Pharmaceutical science 3
PHT 904 Pharmacovigilance 3
PHT 905 Pharmaceutical Microbiology 3
PHT 906 Drug delivery (Formulation, Development, Principles and Applications) 3
PHT 907 Production and Application of  Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 3
PHT 908 Advanced Physical Pharmacy 3
Out of 8 courses students have to opt 6 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

NOTE:

The University reserves the rights to rearange or drop any course or courses.

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