The Master of Pharmacy in Clinical Pharmacy programme shall run over a minimum of four semesters and a maximum of ten semesters of fifteen weeks each.
The Course shall consist of two parts. Part I shall be devoted to course work and exposure to clinical areas in order to correlate course work to to practical application. Part II shall consist of clinical training in the selected electives and research project.
The Coursework shall comprise of: Lectures, tutorials, clinical experience, demonstrations and seminars. The research will run concurrently with clinical work and shall be undertaken only after successful completion of coursework.
The programme shall consist of core courses, major electives, minor electives and dissertation. Each candidate will be required to take nine core courses, one major elective, in addition to the dissertation.
Course Outline
Core courses
Clinical Pharmacy and Patient Health Assessment, Pathophysiology, Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Drug Information and Health Care Management, Advanced Therapeutics I, Advanced Therapeutics II, Analytical Methods in Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Toxicology, Research Methodology and Biostatistics.
Major Electives
Pharmaceutical Care in Internal Medicine, Paediatric Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical care of surgical patients, Obstetric and Gynaecologic Pharmacy.
Minor Electives
Oral Health Pharmacy, Mental health and Psychiatric Pharmacy, Emergency and Critical Care, Pharmacy Practice in Oncology, Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy, Dissertation.