School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Postgraduate degrees by RESEARCH

The school of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in pharmaceutical sciences by research. Opportunities are available to suitably qualified graduates to carry out postgraduate research in a wide variety of areas ranging from

Natural product chemistry and drug discovery, Drug metabolism, Pharmacokinetics, Dosage design and formulation development, Pharmaceutical biotechnology, Pharmaceutical microbiology, Drug delivery systems, Social pharmacy, Traditional medicine, Pharmacognosy, Analytical chemistry, Biosciences and Neural sciences.

Candidates pursuing such a degree program are required to be involved in a scheme of research under the supervision of a supervisor, or in some cases, and also a co-supervisor, appointed by the University, and at the end of which are required to submit a thesis to be examined. The candidates concerned may either be required to pursue a pre-requisite courses currently with or before undertaking their research activities.

Postgraduate degrees by COURSEWORK

This program awards an Master of Pharmacy degree in Clinical Pharmacy. Candidates are required to attend formal lectures and tutorials as well as take part in research projects, seminars and such other academic activities assigned by the school. At the end of each semester, the candidate will be required to sit for examinations for the courses registered. Registration is semester-based with new candidates beginning at the start of the academic year.

The M. Pharm Curriculum allows students to integrate knowledge, practice skills and capabilities to provide pharmaceutical care through active involvement in:

	Ambulatory care pharmacy, which will provide students with the ability to identify, solve and prevent the potential and actual patient's drug-taking and drug-use problems. Through the structured patient education and counselling service will allow students to interact and communicate effectively with patients and their caregivers.
	Ward pharmacy, whose purpose is to equip students with the ability to identify, solve and prevent the potential and actual patient's drug therapy problems by participating in drug therapy initiation and monitoring including adverse drug reactions. Daily clinical drug monitoring will allow students to interact and communicate effectively with patients, peers and other health practitioners.
	Therapeutic drug monitoring service, which is intended to equip students with the skills to individualized patient's drug therapy by applying pharmacokinetic concepts and principles to dosing regimen design.
	Drug and poison information service, which is intended to equip students with skills to identify the actual drug information needs, conducting systematic literature search and evaluation, formulating and communicating response to patients, peers, and other health practitioners either in-person or by telephone.
	Total parenteral nutrition and oncology pharmacy service, which is intended to equip students with the skills to formulate, monitor and manage the individual patient's nutritional needs and chemotherapy for cancer patients. The services will provides students with the hands-on experience in performing specialized service including aseptic dispensing.
	Clinical research is undertaken in order to equip students with the research skills to conduct and implement drug therapy and pharmacy practice research.

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