Diploma in Pharmacy [D.Pharma] - Course Overview

Diploma in Pharmacy is a 2-year full-time Diploma course divided into 4 semesters. D.Pharmacy has been designed to prepare candidates to work under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist in hospitals, community pharmacies, and other related pharmaceutical fields.

Typical duties of a Pharmacy Technician include: Preparing medication for dispensing and compounding pharmaceuticals, Preparing aseptic products, performing inventory control, purchasing, merchandising, and record-keeping as required under such acts as the Food and Drug Act. D.Pharma Syllabus is designed in such a way that it includes both practical and theory subjects. the course prepares students to assist in narcotics control, third-party billing, drug distribution, pre-packing pharmaceuticals, computer processing, and clerical and other duties as necessary.

Components of study within D. Pharmacy Syllabus include pharmacy software practice, accurate and safe processing of prescriptions, compounding techniques, third party billing, inventory control, adherence to relevant legislation, accurate and confidential record-keeping, and effectively verbal and written communication.
Such candidates are prepared to work as members of an interdependent health-care team. They are taught industry ethics including those involving patient-provider relationships, clinical research, and end-of-life care. This course examines other ethical topics such as distribution of scarce resources, use of stem cells, the role of genetic testing, and issues of human cloning. Students are taught to reviews drug approval processes, drug discovery, pharmaceutical applications. They learn about the vast regulatory requirements involved in testing, screening, pre-clinical, and clinical trials of drugs.

D.Pharma: Eligibility

Listed below are the minimum criteria which candidates interested in pursuing the course are required to fulfil, in order to be eligible to apply for the course:

• Successful qualification of the 10+2 level of education in any stream, from a recognized educational Board.
• A minimum aggregate score of 50% (45% for SC/ST/OBC candidates) at the 10+2 level.

Course Structure

Year 1 Courses

• Pharmaceutics- I, theory and Lab

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry- I, theory and Lab

• Pharmacognosy, theory and Lab

• Biochemistry and Clinical Pathology, theory & Lab

• Human Anatomy and Physiology, theory and Lab

• Health Education and Community Pharmacy

Year 2 Courses

• Pharmaceutics- II, theory and Lab

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry- II, theory and Lab

• Pharmacology and Toxiocology, theory and Lab

• Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence

• Drug Store and Business Management

• Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy, theory and Lab