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Pharmacy
diploma course is oldest after Civil, Electrical and Mechanical
engineering diplomas. It is not an engineering course. It is a medical
course.
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Pharmacists study the chemistry of
drugs, their origin, procedures for drug development, their preparation,
dispensing, their effects and eventual use for prevention and treatment of
disease. The complexity of drug therapy and the dangers of drug abuse has
brought into focus the need of pharmacists' special skills to maintain a
rational approach in the realm of drug treatments.
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Pharmacists work in research,
processing and manufacture of drugs.
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Main Subjects
: Two
Year Diploma Curricula
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- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Pharmacognosy
- Biochemistry & Clinical Pathology
- Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Health Education & Community Pharmacy
- Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence
- Drug Store & Business Management
- Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy
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Continuing Education |
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Job Opportunities |
- Hospital Pharmacist/Clinical Pharmacist/Community
pharmacist
- Employment opportunities in medical stores
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sale dealers & manufacturing units.
- As an entrepreneur for repacking of drugs & chemicals.
- Sales/Medical representatives.
- Analysts in chemical / drug analysis laboratories.
- Technicians in biochemistry & pathology lab.
- Research/Biotechnological research and
development in the private national/multinational firms such as
RanBaxy has expanded the sphere of business activity of this field.
- Teaching
- May
start their own chemist shops for which pharmacy
diploma is a must to obtain the license.
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