The program aims to build human capacity in the field of pharmacy and contribute to the development of standards in the pharmacy profession through advanced educational strategies based on learning through problem-solving. This aims to prepare qualified personnel to provide high-quality pharmaceutical services and achieve excellence and innovation in the fields of patient care, scientific research, and community health, in support of human, social, and economic development. Graduates of this specialization are distinguished by their theoretical knowledge, experience, and clinical skills, enabling them to play an effective role in understanding medical diagnoses, selecting the appropriate medication and dosage, and finding other drug alternatives when necessary.
Program Mission:
To educate pharmacists to become leaders in healthcare by providing excellence in education, fostering scientific research, and actively contributing to sustainable community development, with a commitment to enhance pharmaceutical care outcomes and advancing the profession of pharmacy.
Program Goals:
Goal 1:
Develop pharmacists with excellent scientific and clinical expertise who are dedicated to Professionalism and uphold ethical values in their decision-making.
Objectives:
1. Establish a comprehensive curriculum that integrates theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and technology to maintain excellent pharmacy education.
2. Provide specialized internships designed to enhance professionalism and leadership among pharmacy graduates.
Goal 2:
Promote the ability of pharmacy graduates for analytical and critical thinking in pharmaceutical research.
Objective
Enable students to actively engage in clinical and pharmaceutical research activities.
Goal 3:
Meet community health needs by providing sustainable public health services and continuous education.
Objective
Support students’ participation in community initiatives that address healthcare challenges within the community.
Program Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
K1: Demonstrate specialized knowledge and understanding in biomedical, pharmaceutical, clinical, social, behavioral, and administrative sciences in relation to the development and use of medications including natural therapies for prevention and treatment.
K2: Recognize an in-depth knowledge of the concepts of pharmacy practice settings including the role of pharmacists according to legal, ethical, and professional standards in promoting disease prevention and treatment.
K3: Recall knowledge of physicochemical properties and structural activity relationships for general classes of drugs to serve as a background for drug development process and manufacturing.
Skills
S1: Integrate pharmaceutical, administrative, and clinical sciences with information obtained from different resources to provide accurate recommendations and creative solutions for complex problems.
S2: Evaluate scientific and professional literature critically to be utilized in evidence-based practice and conducting research.
S3: Construct patient-centered evidence-based pharmaceutical care plans with an inter-professional approach.
S4: Utilize appropriate information technologies to optimize safe medication use and patient care.
S5: Communicate clearly and effectively in a collaborative manner with healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, administrative staff, supportive personnel, and the public.
S6: Perform different laboratory techniques and mathematical calculations to improve pharmacy education and practice.
Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility
V1: Demonstrate empathy, professional attitude, ethical and legal behavior, integrity, trustworthiness, social and cultural awareness and self-awareness and proper judgment in relevant practice settings.
V2: Advocate patient rights to safe and effective medication use in relevant practice setting.
V3: Engage in self-learning practices and inter-professional healthcare education activities.
V4: Demonstrate leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills, in addition to accountability, confidence, reflective reasoning and independent thinking to respond to routine or unanticipated circumstances.
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