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1. Intake: 30 seats
2. Commencement of session: September
3. Approval of institution conducting the course of study
Our institution has been approved by Pharmacy Council of India and affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka.
Our institution is tied up with MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital for the Pharm.D course which is a super speciality tertiary care hospital with all the modern infrastructure and equipments to support the Pharm.D course.
4. Eligibility
- Candidates who have passed two year P.U.C. examination of Karnataka P.U.C. Board or an equivalent examination of any other approved Board or University established by law in India with English as one of the subject and Physics, Chemistry as compulsory subjects along with one of the following subject – Mathematics or Biology or P.C.M.B. Minimum eligibility should be based on the aggregate of P.C.M. or P.C.B. The candidates shall have passed subjects of English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology / Mathematics individually also.
- Candidates who have passed D.Pharm course from institutions approved by Pharmacy Council of India U/S 12 of Pharmacy Act, 1948, are only eligible to be admitted to first year Pharm.D course.
- Age: - The candidate should have completed 17 years of age on or before 31st day of December of the year of admission to the course.
5. Duration of the course
- Phase I – consisting of First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth academic year.
- Phase II – consisting of internship or residency training during sixth year involving posting in specialty units. It is a phase of training wherein a student is exposed to actual pharmacy practice or clinical pharmacy services and acquires skill under supervision so that he or she may become capable of functioning independently.
6. Medium of Instruction
Medium of Instruction and Examination Shall be English.
7. Course of study
The course of study for Pharm.D includes the subjects is given below.
| First Year: |
| S.No. |
Name of Subject |
| 1.1 |
Human Anatomy and Physiology |
| 1.2 |
Pharmaceutics |
| 1.3 |
Medical Biochemistry |
| 1.4 |
Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry |
| 1.5 |
Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry |
| 1.6 |
Remedial Mathematics/ Biology * |
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| Second Year: |
| S.No. |
Name of Subject |
| 2.1 |
Pathophysiology |
| 2.2 |
Pharmaceutical Microbiology |
| 2.3 |
Pharmacognosy & Phytopharmaceuticals |
| 2.4 |
Pharmacology-I |
| 2.5 |
Community Pharmacy |
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| Third Year: |
| S.No. |
Third Year: |
| 3.1 |
Pharmacology-II |
| 3.2 |
Pharmaceutical Analysis |
| 3.3 |
Hospital Pharmacy |
| 3.4 |
Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence |
| 3.5 |
Medicinal Chemistry |
| 3.6 |
Pharmaceutical Formulations |
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| Fourth Year: |
| S.No. |
Name of Subject |
| 4.1 |
Pharmacotherapeutics-I |
| 4.2 |
Pharmacotherapeutics-II |
| 4.3 |
Clinical Pharmacy |
| 4.4 |
Biostatistics & Research Methodology |
| 4.5 |
Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics |
| 4.6 |
Clinical Toxicology |
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| Fifth Year: |
| 5.1 |
Pharmacotherapeutics-III |
| 5.2 |
Clinical Research |
| 5.3 |
Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics |
| 5.4 |
Clinical Pharmacokinetics & Therapeutic Drug Monitoring |
| 5.5 |
Clerkship * |
| 5.6 |
Project work (Six Months) |
| * Attending ward rounds on daily basis. |
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Practical training
- Hospital posting : Every student shall be posted in constituent hospital for a period of not less than seventy five hours to be covered in not less than 200 working days in each of second, third & fourth year course. In the fifth year, every student shall spend half a day in the morning hours attending ward rounds on daily basis as a part of clerkship.
- Project work : To allow the student to develop data collection and reporting skills in the area of community, hospital and clinical pharmacy, a project work shall be carried out under the supervision of a teacher. The project topic must be approved by the Head of the Department or Head of the Institution. Project work shall be presented in a written report and as a seminar at the end of the year. External and the internal examiners shall do the assessment of the project work.
Sixth Year:
Internship or residency training includes postings in specialty units. Student should independently provide the clinical pharmacy services under supervision of a preceptor to the allotted wards. (i) Six months in General Medicine department, and (ii) Two months each in three other specialty departments
- Internship is a phase of training wherein a student is expected to conduct actual practice of pharmacy
and health care and acquires skills under the supervision so that he or she may become capable of functioni
ng independently.
- A student shall be permitted to start the internship only after having passed in theory and practic
al of all subjects of all the previous years.
- Every student has to undergo one-year internship as per Appendix-C to these regulations.
8. Internship
- Internship is a phase of training wherein a student is expected to conduct actual practice of pharmacy and health care and acquires skills under the supervision so that he or she may become capable of functioning independently.
- A student shall be permitted to start the internship only after having passed in theory and practical of all subjects of all the previous years.
- Every student has to undergo one-year internship as per PCI regulations.
9. Attendance
A minimum of 80% attendance in both Theory and Practical is mandatory.
10. Internal Assessment Marks
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A. Theory: Three sessional examinations evenly spread during the academic year shall be conducted and the average marks of the best two examinations shall be computed out of a maximum 30 marks and shall constitute the sessional marks in theory.
- B. Practical: Students are expected to perform the number of experiments listed in the respective syllabus. The average marks of the best two practical examinations shall be computed out of a maximum of 30 marks. While awarding the sessional marks of practical experiments, the following considerations should be taken into account.
- Preparation of the candidate.
- Manipulative skills.
- Results of the experiment.
- Knowledge of the experiment
- Viva voce pertaining to the experiments only.
11. Examination for Pharm.D
- Every year there shall be an examination to examine the students.
- Each examination is held twice every year. The first examination in a year is the annual examination and the second examination is supplementary examination.
- The examination includes a written and practical carrying maximum 70 marks for each part of a subject.
12. Criteria for Passing
- a) Candidates who have secured a minimum of 50% marks in the Theory (including sessional) and Practical (including sessional) separately in any subject or subjects shall be declared to have passed in that subject/ and exempted from appearing in that subject/s at subsequent examination.
- b) Theory and Practical of a particular subject are considered as individual subjects
for the purpose of pass criteria.
13. Eligibility for promotion to next year
All students who have appeared for all the subjects and passed the first year annual examination are eligible for promotion to the second year and, so on. However, failure in more than two subjects shall debar him or her from promotion to the next year classes.
14. Declaration of Class
Class shall be awarded at the end of I, II, III, IV, V and final year of Pharm.D examination as shown below:
- Distinction 75%
- First class 60% and above and less than 75%
- Second Class 50% and above and less than 60%
Pass class shall be awarded to such of the candidates who would have passed the examination in more than one attempt. However, this shall not be applicable to candidates who are exempted in Remedial Biology and Remedial Mathematics by the RGUHS Karnataka, Bangalore.
15. Award of Degree
A candidate who has passed in all the subjects of Pharm.D course has successfully completed the Internship (as per PCI regulations) will be eligible for the award of Pharm.D degree. |
