Pharm.D
The Pharm.D curriculum is designed to prepare students to be practice-ready when they arrive at their fieldwork sites, and to allow them to grow clinically and professionally via their patient care and research activities.The curriculum integrates core knowledge areas – such as the effects of drugs in the body and how to select a particular drug among a range of options – into courses based on organ systems and disease states, in contrast to the previous system that delivered the information in separate courses where therapeutic relevance is sometimes lost between the molecules and actual medicines.
The Pharmacy Council of India introduced the Pharm.D course (6-year doctoral degree programme in pharmacy) in 2008 with the goal of improving patient care and delivering pharmacy Education Programmes. It is a post-graduate programme. All aspects of pharmacy practice, including Clinical Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy, Clinical Research, Pharmacotherapy and drug toxicity management are highlighted. The profession's purpose is to enhance public health by ensuring that medicines are used safely, effectively, and appropriately. Pharmacy practice has evolved from a model in which the pharmacist primarily supervises medication distribution and counsels patients to one in which the pharmacist plays a more expanded and team-based clinical role that includes patient-centered medication therapy management, health improvement, and disease prevention.