Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D)

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE CONCEPT Definition:  It is a patient  centered , outcomes oriented pharmacy practice. The pharmacist is working in concert with the patient & patient's other health care providers to promote health, prevent disease & to assess, monitor, initiate and modify medication use, to assure that drug therapy regimens are safety and effective, It involves the direct professional relationship between patient and pharmacist. Requires patient specific, medication specific information to be collected. Patient specific medication or medical information to be evaluated. A therapeutic plan to be designed, implemented, monitored to achieve the best outcome of the therapy. PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF  PHARMACEUTICAL CARE CONCEPT The principal elements of pharmaceutical care are:   1.       Medication Related 2.       Care 3.       Outcomes 4....

Doctor of Pharmacy is a professional pharmacy doctoral program. In India, it is total six years program after 10+2 or D. Pharm which includes five years of academic study and one year of internship.   The academic study includes the same subjects such as B. Pharm, in addition the pharmacy practice components are emphasized such as Hospital Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacotherapeutics, Clinical Pharmacy, Biostatistics and Research Methodology, Clinical Toxicology, Clinical Research, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacotherapeutic Drug Monitoring. Further to add, in the fifth year of the course the candidate has to perform a project work for six months.   Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is the  regulatory body of Pharmacy education in India. Pharmacy Council of India introduced the 6 years Pharm. D. course in  India from the academic year 2008. Pharm. D. enables one to practice the profession of a Pharmac...