Pharmacy teaching
Pharmacy education starts with basic medical sciences, ranging from laboratory subjects to studies of human behaviour. The early courses are studied with students from other programmes in the college, including medicine and physiotherapy, but then in the later parts of the course the subjects become more specialised before we rejoin medical students on the wards of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the final year.
A new Masters degree in Herbal Medicines and Phytochemistry is being proposed.
Dispensing at QECH
Pharmacy year 1
Pharmacy – An Introduction The BPharm curriculum (pdf) is here
Anatomy
The Principal addresses the celebrations.
Physiology
Biochemistry
Community Health – Principles of Epidemiology & Statistics
Community Health – An introduction
Microbiology
Pharmaceutical Calculations
Introduction to Pathology
Pharmacy Year 2
Pharmaceutics I
Pharmaceutical Chemistry I
Pharmacology (Gut, lungs and cardiovascular systems)
Pharmacognosy
Pharmacy Year 3
Pharmaceutics II
Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Analysis and chromatography)
Pharmacology (Antimicrobials and nervous system drugs)
Pharmacy Practice I
Pharmacy Law
Drug and Medical Supplies Management I
Research in Practice I
Clinical Pharmacy introduction
Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacy Year 4
Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
Clinical Pharmacy
Pharmacology (Endocrinology)
Pharmacy Practice II
Pharmacovigilance
Drug and Medical Supplies Management II
Medicinal Chemistry (Synthesis and drug action)
Toxicology
Research in Practice (Project)
Each year, the 4th year BPharm students will carry out practical assignments at Central Medical Stores South. These assignments are part of the course Drug & Medical Supplies Management and provide practical experience in applying Good Storage Practice and Good Distribution Practice guidelines.
Other assignments occur in community pharmacies, in industry and in the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital where final year students join medical teams for ward rounds as well as studying with our own clinical pharmacy teachers.
Second year students enjoying being at the National Herbarium in Zomba.