Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC), Higher Education Commission, Pakistan has approved the establishment of five pharmaceutical department in pharmacy teaching institutions. This meeting was held in HEC Regional Centre, Karachi, Pakistan. All of the 26 members of this meeting have unanimously approved this amendment. Thus; the faculty/ institutions/ schools of pharmacy will be enforced to establish five departments with relevant subjects as under;
1. Department of Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutics-I (Physical Pharmacy)
- Pharmaceutics-II (Dosage Forms Science)
- Pharmaceutics-III (Pharmaceutical Microbiology & immunology)
- Pharmaceutics-IV(Industrial Pharmacy)
- Pharmaceutics-V (Biopharmaceutics)
- Pharmaceutics-VI (Pharmaceutical Quality Management)
- Pharmaceutics-VII (Pharmaceutical Technology)
2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry-I (Organic Chemistry)
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry-II (Biochemistry)
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry-III (Pharmaceutical Analysis)
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry-IV (Medicinal Chemistry)
3. Department of Pharmacognosy
- Pharmacognosy-I
- Pharmacognosy-II
4. Department of Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Anatomy & Histology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology -I
- Pharmacology -II
5. Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Pharmacy Practice-I (Pharmaceutical Mathematics and Biostatistics)
- Pharmacy Practice-II (Dispensing, Community, Social & Administrative Pharmacy)
- Pharmacy Practice-III (Hospital Pharmacy)
- Pharmacy Practice-IV (Forensic Pharmacy)
- Pharmacy Practice-V (Clinical Pharmacy-I)
- Pharmacy Practice-VI (Clinical Pharmacy-II)
- Pharmacy Practice-VII (Computer & its Applications in Pharmacy)
- Pharmacy Practice-VIII (Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing)
Moreover; the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC), Higher Education Commission, Pakistan has passed unanimously the following recommendations;
- The up-dated curriculum of Doctor of Pharmacy program after the approval from Pharmacy Council of Pakistan (PCP) and Higher Education Commission (HEC) shall be binding on every Pharmacy Institution/ University (Public and Private) to adopt revised curricula.
- The revised curricula shall be adopted from the 2012 session.
- PCP and HEC will take up the matter at government level; a). to establish Pharmacy Services in all hospitals (public and private); b). to affiliate public sector hospitals with the universities/institutions imparting Pharmacy education; c). Will recommended to PMDC to ensure the availability of Pharmacy services in all hospitals.
- Violation in adoption of the approved curriculum shall be liable to penalty under section 17 & 19 of Pharmacy Act, 1967 and rules framed there-under, which may lead to revoking of affiliation/ accreditation by the PCP.
- No omission and changes are allowed in the said curriculum approved by PCP and HEC, by any institution.
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree holders will be allowed for direct admission in M.S. /M. Phil leading to PhD program.
- The members passed a resolution that a National University of Pharmaceutical Sciences must be established on priority basis.