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DOCTOR OF PHARMACY (PHARM D)

Course Duration

6 years (5 years study and 1year of internship in hospital)

Eligibility

Pass in 12th Std / PUC / PDC / H.Sc / Intermediate with Physics

Age

17 yrs and above on 31st December of the year of admission

Attendance Requirement

A minimum of 80% attendance in both theory and practical classes is essential to get eligibility for sessional and university examination

Practical Training

Hospital Posting : Every student shall be posted in constituent hospital for a period of not less than seventy five hours to be covered in not less than 200 working days in each of second, third & fourth year course. In the fifth year, every student shall spend half a day in the morning hours attending ward rounds on daily basis as a part of clerkship.

Project Work : To allow the student to develop data collection and reporting skills in the area of community, hospital and clinical pharmacy, a project work shall be carried out under the supervision of a teacher. The project topic must be approved by the Head of the Department or Head of the Institution. Project work shall be presented in a written report and as a seminar at the end of the year. External and the internal examiners shall do the assessment of the project work.

Internship

Every student must complete a one year mandatory internship period as per Appendix-C regulations.

Internship is a phase of training where a student is expected to conduct actual practice of pharmacy and health care and acquires skills under supervision so that he or she may become capable of functioning independently.

A student shall be permitted to start the internship only after having passed in theory and practical of all subjects of all previous years.Every student has to undergo one-year internship as per PCI regulations.