Vision
Leading private Clinical Pharmacy education in GCC countries.
Mission
To graduate competent clinical pharmacists capable of providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care to the community with an aptitude to Lifelong learning through provision of knowledge, clinical skills, research abilities and ethics of practice within a motivating learning environment.
Goals of The Program:
GOAL 1: To promote program excellence and effectiveness that produces competent provider of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Care who are productive researchers and healthcare leader.
GOAL 2: To apply international best practices in quality of pharmacy education including student-centered learning, integration of sciences, research, and extensive experiential/experiential education.
GOAL 3: To promote collaborative professional practice through interprofessional education.
GOAL 4: To prepare graduates for continuing professional development and life-long learning.
GOAL 5: To promote information-technology environment as per curricula requirements.
GOAL 6: To enhance the provided community activities to meet the society’s health needs.
GOAL 7: To expand scientific research and enhance its quality to maximize the research impact.
Graduate Attributes
1. Patient Centered Care Provider
Ability to provide evidence-based patient care as a team member or leader and develop therapeutic care plans based on well-established up to date guidelines in consideration with cultural diversity and professional issues that might affect the outcomes.
2. Profound Disciplinary Knowledge & Skills
Ability to employ profound knowledge of fundamental, pharmaceutical, social, and clinical sciences in pharmacy profession and research for promotion of healthcare.
3. Research Skills
Ability to design, conduct and disseminate research activities in various settings promote community healthcare.
4. Problem Solving, Critical Thinking & Decision Making
Ability to critically appraise and make decisions for medication related problems to optimize medication use and promote patient care.
5. Ethical Practice, Leadership and Professionalism
Ability to work in accordance with ethical guidelines and regulations and serve as a credible role model/leader by exhibiting the value and behaviors of a professional.
6. Digital Capabilities
Ability to utilize recent technologies and resources for patient care & lifelong learning for improving professional skills and serving the community.
7. Communication and Collaboration
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with healthcare professionals, administration, support services, patients and caregivers with complete respect of cultural diversity.
8. Providing Services to the Community
Ability to work individually or collaboratively with healthcare providers to improve community awareness on medications & diseases management for better community healthcare outcomes.
9. Management of Medication- Use Systems
Ability to participate in drug manufacturing and efficient distribution, usage and maintaining of high-quality product to improve patient safety.
Program Learning Out Comes
| Knowledge and Understanding | |
|---|---|
| K1 | Describe the basic principles and concepts of basic, pharmaceutical, clinical and social sciences related to pharmacy profession. |
| K2 | Outline principles of drug design, Structure Activity Relationship, synthesis, analysis and formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. |
| K3 | Recognize ethical, legal and economic aspects of pharmacy profession. |
| K4 | Outline principles of research methodology. |
| Skills | |
| S1 | Apply concepts and principles of pharmaceutical, clinical sciences in pharmacy profession. |
| S2 | Develop therapeutic care plans using the principles of evidence-based healthcare and critical appraisal. |
| S3 | Discuss drug design, screening, synthesis, analysis, efficacy and safety of medications used in different diseases and health-related conditions. |
| S4 | Demonstrate basic research skills |
| S5 | Utilize statistical and pharmacy specific software. |
| S6 | Interpret data extracted by different statistical methods in bio-analysis and forensics. |
| S7 | Perform effective pharmaceutical procedures in drug screening, analysis, synthesis, manufacturing and design. |
| S8 | Demonstrate basic clinical skills and first aid measures in health care settings. |
| Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility | |
| V1 | Demonstrate professional attitude and ethical behaviour in pharmacy practice, research and industry. |
| V2 | Demonstrate effective teamwork and inter-professional collaboration skills. |
| V3 | Communicate effectively with colleagues, healthcare providers, patients and their families, pharmaceutical industrialists and other community members. |
Study Plan
First Year
| FOUNDATION YEAR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 (Level 01) | Semester 2 (Level 02) | ||||
| Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Code | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| ENGL 101 | ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES – 1 | 7 (6+1+0) | ENGL 102 | ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES-2 | 4 (3+1+0) |
| PHYS 101 | MEDICAL PHYSICS | 3 (2+1+0) | ARAB 102 | ARABIC LANGUAGE | 2 (2+0+0) |
| ITHS 101 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES | 2 (1+1+0) | CHEM 102 | CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES | 4 (3+1+0) |
| EDU 101 | STUDY SKILLS | 2 (1+1+0) | ISLM 102 | ISLAMIC ETHICS | 2 (2+0+0) |
| ARAB 101 | MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY | 2(2+0+0) | BIOL 102 | CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS | 3 (2+1+0) |
| EDU102 | COMMUNICATION SKILLS | 2 (1+1+0) | |||
| Total | 16 | Total | 17 | ||
| Total Credit Hours = 33 | |||||
Second Year
| Second Year | |||||
| Semester 1 (Level 03) | Credit Hours | Semester 2 (Level 04) | Credit Hours | ||
| ANAT 211 | Anatomy | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) | BIOC 221 | Biochemistry-II | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) |
| BIOC 211 | Biochemistry-I | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCH 221 | Pharmaceutical Analytical chemistry | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) |
| PHCT 211 | Mathematics | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) | PHCH 222 | Intro to Medicinal Chemistry | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCH 213 | Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry | 3 (3 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 221 | General Immunology | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHSL 211 | Physiology-I | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) | PHCT 222 | Pharmaceutical Microbiology | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) |
| PSYC 211 | Psychology & Behavioral Science | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHSL 221 | Physiology-II | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCL 211 | Intro to Pharmacy Profession | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) | PHCL 221 | Basic Clinical Skills | 1 (0 + 0 + 1) |
| PHCL 212 | First Aid | 1 (0+ 0 + 1) | |||
| Total | 16 | Total | 16 | ||
| Total Credit Hours = 32 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Third Year
| Third Year | |||||
| Semester 1 (Level 05) | Credit Hours | Semester 2 (Level 06) | Credit Hours | ||
| PHCH 314 | Introduction to Natural Product | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCH 321 | Medicinal Chemistry-2 | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) |
| PHCH 312 | Drug Discovery and Development | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) | PHCL 321 | Pathophysiology-II | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCH 317 | Medicinal Chemistry-1 | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 321 | Pharmaceutics-II | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) |
| PHCL 311 | Pathophysiology-I | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 322 | Biopharmaceutics | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCL 312 | Pharmacy Practice | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHLG 323 | Pharmacology-II | 3 (3 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCT 311 | Pharmaceutics-I | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) | PHLG 325 | Chemotherapy | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHLG 311 | Pharmacology-I | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) |
PHCH 322 PHCL 323 PHCT 323
|
Electives:
Int. to Drug Design Pharmacy seminar Pharmaceutical Industry |
1 (1 + 0 + 0) 1 (0 + 1 + 0) 1 (1 + 0 + 0)
|
| SERV 311 | Community Service | 1 (0 + 1+ 0) | |||
| Total | 17 | Total | 17 | ||
| Total Credit Hours = 34 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Introductory Pharmacy Practice-1 (IPP-1) – Summer Training
| Introductory Pharmacy Practice-1 (IPP-1) – Summer Training — | |
| IPP 321 | Introductory Pharmacy Practice- IPP-1 |
Fourth Year
| Fourth Year | |||||
| Semester 1 (Level 07) | Credit Hours | Semester 2 (Level 08) | Credit Hours | ||
| PHCL 411 | Pharmacotherapy-I | 4 (3 + 1+ 0) | PHCL 421 | Pharmacotherapy-II | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) |
| ISLM 407 | Ethics & Professionalism | 2 (1 + 1 + 0) | PHCL 422 | Drug and Poison Information Services | 2 (1 + 1 + 0)- |
| PHCT 411 | Pharmaceutics-III | 2 (2 +0 + 0) | PHCL 423 | Clinical Skills | 1 (0 + 0 + 1) |
| PHLG 411 | Pharmacology-III | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCH 421 | Pharmacopeial Analysis | 3 (3 + 0 + 0) |
| PHLG 412 | Toxicology | 3 (3 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 421 | Basic Pharmacokinetics | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| SAFE 407 | Patient Safety | 2 (1 + 1 + 0) | PHLG 422 | Pharmacology-IV | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| RESM 407 | Research Methodology & Biostatistics | 3 (2 + 1 + 0) | PROJ 408 | Research Project-1 | 1 (0 + 1 + 0) |
|
PHCL 424 PHCL 425
PHCL 426 |
Elective Course:
Pediatric Drug Therapy Comprehensive Diabetes Management Health Informatics |
1 (1 + 0 + 0)
1 (1 + 0 + 0) 1 (1 + 0 + 0) |
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| Total | 18 | Total | 16 | ||
| Total Credit Hours = 34 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Introductory Pharmacy Practice-2 (IPP-2) –Summer Training
| Introductory Pharmacy Practice-2 (IPP-2) –Summer Training– | |
| IPP 421 | Introductory Pharmacy Practice- IPP-2 |
Fifth Year
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Semester 1 (Level 09) | Credit Hours | Semester 2 (Level 10) | Credit Hours | ||
| PHCL 511 | Pharmacotherapy-III | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) | PHCL 521 | Pharmacotherapy-IV | 4 (3 + 1 + 0) |
| PHCL 512 | Pharmacy Management | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCL 522 | Pharmacoeconomics and epidemiology | 3 (3 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCL 513 | Clinical Pharmacokinetics | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) | PHCL 523 | Evidence-based Medicine | 2 (1 + 1 + 0) |
| PHCL 514 | Pharmacogenomics | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) | PHCL 524 | Pharmacovigilance | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) |
| PHCL 515 | Advanced Pharmacy Practice | 2 (1 + 1 + 0) | PHCL 525 | Pharmacy Law in KSA | 1 (1+0+0) |
| PHCT 511 | Dispensing of Medication | 2 (1 + 1 + 0) | PHCT 521 | Pharmaceutical Biotechnology | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHLG 511 | Alternative Medicine | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 522 | Over the Counter Drugs | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) |
| PHLG 512 | Drugs of Abuse | 2 (2 + 0 + 0) | PHCT 523 | Nuclear Pharmacy | 1 (1 + 0 + 0) |
| PROJ 509
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Research Project-2
|
1 (0 + 1 + 0)
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PHLG 523 BIOS 521
|
Elective Course:
Directed Research Applied Biostatistics |
1 (0+ 1 +0)
1 (1 + 0 + 0)
|
| Total | 17 | Total | 17 | ||
| Total Credit Hours = 34 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sixth Year
| Clerkship Year | ||
| No. | Sixth Year | Hours |
| Semester 1 | ||
| 1 | Clerkship-I | 3 |
| 2 | Clerkship-II | 3 |
| 3 | Clerkship-III | 3 |
| 4 | Clerkship-IV | 3 |
| Total | 12 | |
| No. | Semester 2 | Hours |
| 1 | Clerkship-V | 3 |
| 2 | Clerkship-VI | 3 |
| 3 | Clerkship-VII | 3 |
| 4 | Clerkship-VIII | 3 |
| Total | 12 | |
| No. | Semester 3 | Hours |
| 1 | Clerkship-IX | 3 |
| 2 | Clerkship-X | 3 |
| Total | 6 | |
| Total Credit Hours = 30 | ||
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