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 M.Phil

in Five disciplines

M.PHIL COURSES IN PHARMACOLOLGY

Code

Subject

Cr. Hr.

PHL 801

Biostatistics

3

PHL 802

Research methodology statistical packages

3

PHL 803

Instrumental analysis and techniques

3

PHL 804

Instrumental analysis and techniques-ii

3

PHL 805

Drugs acting on autonomic nervous system and their therapeutic applications

3

PHL 806

Chemotherapy of infections

3

PHL 807

Basis of endocrine disorders and their therapeutic approaches

3

PHL 808

Pharmacotherapy of cardiovascular disorders

3

PHL 809

Immunotoxicology

3

PHL 810

Psychopharmacology

3

Out of 10 courses students have to opt 8 courses (each course is of
3 Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M.PHIL COURSES IN PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY

Code Subject Cr. Hr.
PHC 801 Biostatistics 3
PHC 802 Reasearch methodlogy statistical packages 3
PHC 803 Instrumental analysis and techniques 3
PHC 804 Instrumental analysis and techniques-II 3
PHC 805 Drug design 3
PHC 806 Medicinal chemistry I 3
PHC 807 Medicinal chemistry II 3
PHC 808 Drug stability 3
PHC 809 Solvent extraction and chromatographic techniques 3
PHC 810 Clinical chemistry 3
Out of 10 courses students have to opt 8 courses (each course is of 3  Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M. PHIL COURSES IN PHARMACOGNOSY

Code

Subject

Cr. Hr.

PHT 801

Biostatistics

3

PHT802

Reasearch methodlogy statistical packages

3

PHT 803

Instrumental analysis and techniques

3

PHT 804

Instrumental analysis and techniques-II

3

PHT 805

Scientific basis of phytotherapy

3

PHT806

Rational phytotheraphy

3

PHT 807

Phytochemistry

3

PHT 808

Advanced in pharmacognosy

3

PHT 809

Analytical pharmacy

3

PHT 810

Industrial pharmacognosy

3

Out of 10 courses students have to opt 8 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M. PHIL COURSES IN PHARMACEUTICS

Code Subject Cr. Hr.
PHT 801 Biostatistics 3
PHT802 Reasearch methodlogy statistical packages 3
PHT803 Instrumental analysis and techniques 3
PHT804 Instrumental analysis and techniques-II 3
PHT805 Advanced pharmaceutics 3
PHT806 Pharmaceutical quality control 3
PHT807 Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics 3
PHT808 Pharmaceutical product development 3
PHT809 Computer application in pharmacy 3
PHT810 Microbial control in pharmaceutical 3
Out of 10 courses students have to opt 8 courses (each course is of 3
Cr.Hrs) in two semester.

M.PHIL. COURSES IN PHARMACY PRACTICE

Code Subject Cr. Hr.
PHP 901 Seminars and project proposals 3
PHP 902 Computer Applications in Pharmacy 3
PHP 903 Advances in Rational Phytotherapy 3
PHP 904 Fundamentals of Clinical Investigation 3
PHP 905 Clinical Gastroenterology 3
PHP 906 Clinical Immunology 3
PHP 907 Biostatistics in Clinical Pharmacy 3
PHP 908 Designing Clinical Research 3
Out of 8 courses students have to opt 6 courses (each courses is of
3 Cr. Hrs) in teo semester.

NOTE:

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

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