B.PHARM
This is a 4 year program spread over 8 Semesters, leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy. The program is tailor made to train the students to play an important role in community pharmacy and assist the Pharma industry at various levels. The course is predominantly based on practice and interaction with a strong focus on the healthcare system. This will enable students to practice pharmacy profession in a strong, skillful and determined manner.
Merits
- Experienced and vibrant full-time faculty.
- Electives in tune with specializations at under graduate level.
- Industrial training for 4 Weeks.
- Regular interaction with community pharmacy and industrial pharmacy experts.
- Opportunity to use and witness post graduate and research infrastructure at under graduate level.
- Guidance and counseling from senior students at post graduate and doctorate level.
- Case studies based on community and industrial pharmacy.
- Placement focus in Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Consulting companies, FMCG, Market Research, Medical Devices, IT, KPOs in Medical domain, Hospitals, Clinical Research Organizations, Health Insurance and other opportunities.
Duration
The course for B. Pharm shall extend over four years consisting of two semesters each year, along with inbuilt industrial/ community pharmacy/ hospital training.
Intake
B. Pharm. - 20 Seats in B.Pharm.
Attendance
A student is expected to attend all classes. However, a student must put in 80% of total attendance for each subject, in the absence of which he/she will not be eligible to write the exam for that subject. A student is required to monitor his/ her own attendance and no separate notice will be displayed.
In case of genuine medical/ professional/ other reasons resulting in shortage of attendance, the student is encouraged to attend classes the following year as per the rules of re-registration and re-examination of the University. Absence beyond 20% will not be condoned for any reason whatsoever.
Value Proposition
- Curriculum constantly monitored in tune to the needs of pharma industries and research areas.
- Electives offered at undergraduate level.
- Industrial training for 4 weeks in B. Pharm.
- Hands on training offered during the course.
- Encourage industry – institute interactions by means of guest lectures, industrial visits and training.
- All-round development is encouraged by organizing corporate seminars; quiz competitions etc at national level.
- Social awareness programs in Tuberculosis, Obesity, HIV – AIDS, Diabetes etc, are conducted under the social responsibility forum Kshamta.
Program Objectives
- Latest curriculum being continuously monitored for value addition.
- Electives in tune with specializations at under graduate level.
- Industrial training for 4 weeks.
- Opportunity to use and witness post graduate and research infrastructure at under graduate level.
- Placement focus on Pharma industries, hospitals, retail drug chains and other opportunities.
Pedagogy
The course is predominantly based on practice and interactions with a strong focus on the healthcare system. This will enable the students to practice pharmacy profession in a strong, skillful and determined manner.
The course is reviewed regularly in consultation with our Board of Studies, which consists of professionals from pharma industry, research, FDA and pharma institutes from all over India. Thus, the course is tailor made to fulfill the requirements in Pharmaceutical sector for growing pharma industries worldwide.
Curriculum
First Year
Semester I
o Human Anatomy and Physiology I – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Analysis – Theory
o Pharmaceutics I – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry – Theory
o Communication skills – Theory o Remedial Biology - Theory
o Remedial Mathematics – Theory
o Human Anatomy and Physiology I - Practical
o Pharmaceutical Analysis – Practical
o Pharmaceutics I – Practical
o Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry – Practical
o Communication skills – Practical • Remedial Biology – Practical
Semester II
o Human Anatomy and Physiology II – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry I – Theory
o Biochemistry - Theory
o Pathophysiology – Theory o Computer Applications in Pharmacy – Theory
o Environmental sciences – Theory
o Human Anatomy and Physiology II – Practical
o Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry I – Practical
o Biochemistry – Practical
o Computer Applications in Pharmacy – Practical
Second Year
Semester III
o Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry II – Theory
o Physical Pharmaceutics I – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Microbiology – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Engineering – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry II – Practical
o Physical Pharmaceutics I – Practical
o Pharmaceutical Microbiology – Practical
o Pharmaceutical Engineering – Practical
Semester IV
o Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry III – Theory
o Medicinal Chemistry I – Theory
o Physical Pharmaceutics II – Theory
o Pharmacology I – Theory
o Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry I – Theory
o Medicinal Chemistry I – Practical
o Physical Pharmaceutics II – Practical
o Pharmacology I – Practical
o Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry I – Practical
Third Year
Semester V
o Medicinal Chemistry II – Theory
o Industrial Pharmacy I – Theory
o Pharmacology II – Theory
o Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry II – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence – Theory
o Industrial Pharmacy I – Practical
o Pharmacology II – Practical
o Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry II – Practical
Semester VI
o Medicinal Chemistry III – Theory
o Pharmacology III – Theory
o Herbal Drug Technology – Theory
o Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Biotechnology – Theory
o Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance - Theory
o Medicinal Chemistry III – Practical
o Pharmacology III – Practical
o Herbal Drug Technology – Practical
Fourth Year
Semester VII
o Instrumental Methods of Analysis – Theory
o Industrial Pharmacy II – Theory
o Pharmacy Practice – Theory
o Novel Drug Delivery Systems – Theory
o Instrumental Methods of Analysis – Practical
o Practice School
Semester VIII
o Biostatistics and Research Methodology - Theory
o Social and Preventive Pharmacy - Theory
o Elective 1
o Elective 2
o Project Work
Electives
o Pharmaceutical Marketing Management - Theory
o Pharmaceutical Regulatory Science – Theory
o Pharmacovigilance – Theory
o Quality Control and Standardization of Herbals – Theory
o Computer Aided Drug Design – Theory
o Cell and Molecular Biology – Theory
o Cosmetic Science – Theory
o Pharmacological Screening Methods – Theory
o Advanced Instrumentation Techniques – Theory
o Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals - Theory
o Pharmaceutical Product Development – Theory
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)
- Graduates should gain technical expertise along with the ability to demonstrate core competence for analyzing and problem solving in multiple pharmaceutical aspects.
- Graduates should demonstrate multidisciplinary approach and adapt to the rapidly changing pharma profession and emerging areas of science and technology.
- Graduates should demonstrate self motivation and self reliance to serve industry, academia and research, locally and globally.
- Graduates should demonstrate techno managerial skills, teamwork, leadership and initiative to achieve professional and organizational goals and should succeed.
- Graduates, during the four years of the course, should demonstrate awareness to pursue lifelong learning in pharmacy and related professional education to enhance technical non technical and skills within and across disciplines to contribute to the growth and development of self and society.
Program Outcomes (POs)
- Student has in depth knowledge of human body, diseases, drug molecules (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) along with excipients, natural drug resources, chemistry involved in API including synthesis of commonly used drugs, effect of drug on human body, toxicity and impurity profile, ADME studies of drugs (behavior of drug in human body), dosage form studies including novel approaches, designing and development of formulation and pilot plant scale-up studies, stability studies, analysis.
- The student is also trained in drug distribution system, patient counseling, industrial laws and regulatory agencies conduct in pharma education and pharma industries at national and international level.
- Student gains expertise in storage and distribution of drugs with all precautions and in-depth knowledge of dose, adverse effect and other health related issues to deal with indoor and outdoor patients admitted in hospitals and also in public drug distribution system.
- Student is also trained in ethical behavior with physician, nurses and other paramedical staff for protecting patient’s health.
- During the course, students’ interact as a student member with various national and international professional bodies viz. IPA, IPGA, APTI, FIP etc. and then as a graduate they are full-fledged members and have freedom to opine on any issue related to health care system. These bodies also organize conferences, workshops, webinars, online courses and evaluation as a part of life-long learning in the profession of pharmacy which is being utilized by all pharmacy graduates.
Course Outcomes (COs)
- The student has knowledge of mathematical calculations involved in pharmacy, plant and animal kingdom, basics of genetics and chemistry of organic and inorganic compounds.
- The student will be acquainted with knowledge of pre-formulation studies, physicochemical aspects required for designing a dosage form, stability testing of pharmaceutical products, formulation and evaluation of tablets and capsules, coating of tablets, techniques of microencapsulation, packaging of pharmaceutical products, parenteral dosage forms, aseptic techniques, ophthalmic preparations and surgical products, blood and glandular products, stability testing of pharmaceuticals
- The student is equipped with detailed information about chemical structure and biological activity of drug molecules and their mechanism of action, biochemical mechanism and chemistry of steroids, chemotherapeutics agents and their synthesis, molecular mechanism and Structure Activity Relationship of cardiovascular, cholinergic & adrenergic drugs along with their discovery, drugs acting on central nervous system, relation between chemical structure and biological activity of drug molecules and their mechanism of action as well as synthetic of few drugs.
- The Student will be well versed with organization and structure of hospital pharmacy, purchase and inventory control and drug distribution system in the hospitals, supply and management of sterilization materials and equipment, sources of drug information and reporting of drug interaction and adverse drug reactions, the preliminary knowledge of radio-pharmaceuticals.
- The Student develops deep understanding of various drugs used for treating diseases and their mechanism of action, basic concepts of the importance of chemotherapy, Adverse Drug Reactions, toxicology.
- Student has knowledge of different crude drugs obtained from plants, animals, phytoconstituents, their chemistry, isolation and estimations techniques, guidelines pertaining formulation of herbal drugs and standardization of herbal drugs.
- Student understand mechanisms of cell signaling, gene expression, recombinant DNA technology biotech skills, basics of plant and animal tissue culture.
- Student gains knowledge of good manufacturing practices, sterile area and validation aspects.
- Student understands drug legislations in India, drug pricing system, Drug and Cosmetics act.
