Department of Pharmacy

About Department  :

The Department of Pharmacy was established as a college in 1994 to offer a bachelor degree of pharmacy. The master’s program in clinical pharmacy was approved in 2003 and the Doctor of Pharmacy degree was approved in 2007. In 2012, the master’s program in pharmaceutical sciences was approved. In 2011, as a part of university policy to restructure colleges and departments, the college of pharmacy was merged as a department in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The department includes the following divisions:

• Division of Clinical and Community Pharmacy
• Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and technology

Mission: 

The department of Pharmacy aspires to keep up with the scientific and professional advances and achieve excellence in pharmacy education, pharmaceutical research, and community service. The graduates of the department will have the following essential skills:

• Health and pharmaceutical care
• Clinical drug therapy
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing and marketing
• Communication with other pharmacists, physicians, and problem solving
• Modern pharmacy administration education
• Acquire the essential skills in providing drug and poison information
• Practicing the ethical and legal standards in patient care

The department has several laboratories as part of the educational curriculum. These include pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, and pharmaceutics labs. Practical pharmacy training supervised by the department faculty members is performed in cooperation with community pharmacies, local hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.

The department teaching faculty includes pharmacists and physicians from various departments of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The faculty members have the scientific and professional expertise in many biomedical and pharmaceutical specialties. Curricular and extracurricular activities are held regularly to enhance knowledge, talents, and abilities of our graduates to allow them to take leadership positions. Graduates are required to conduct scientific research projects under the supervision of faculty members. The department faculty members are involved in pharmaceutical research and have published their work in peer-reviewed journals. Since its establishment, the pharmacy department has produced more than 1200 graduates. 

Goals:

The department aims to produce graduates capable of:

• Provision of high quality pharmacy care services
• Making decisions and evaluating drug information based on evidence-based principles
• Technical skills to communicate with physicians and patients
• Communicating with health care workers based on scientific principles
• Managing human and material resources effectively
• Life-long learning and building self-knowledge
• Educating others with their practical and scientific knowledge
• Being competitive leaders in the health care field to serve the patients and the local community
• Being creative in the area of scientific research and the use of medicine in the health care system

Academic programs:

• Bachelor of pharmacy
• Doctor of pharmacy
• Master degree in clinical pharmacy
• Master degree in pharmaceutical sciences