Department of Pharmacy Practice

Aims and Scope of the Program:

Pharmacy Practice at Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Karachi is aimed to produce leaders for integrating education, research and practice by virtue of innovative and collaborative ventures within a diversified community and clinical health care systems across the country.

Pharmacy Practice is the demand of the current era in healthcare system. In hospitals, pharmacist take care of the patients by clinical interventions and rationalizing therapy, monitoring the outcomes and strategizing the clinical input to reduce adverse effects and report those adverse effects. Furthermore, via patient education and counseling, the pharmacist practitioner provides the social and behavioral contingence to the patients and general public.

The scope of Pharmacy practice is extending from Healthcare system, through Academia, and Regulatory Affairs of pharmacy practice to pharmaceutical research in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology. These healthcare services as regarded as a pillar in healthcare system, hence, services to the society. In every sphere of healthcare system, these pharmacists are employed, and their services are procured.