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Pharmacy

Language of instruction

lithuanian

Qualification degree and (or) qualification to be awarded

Master of Health Sciences
Pharmacist

Place of delivery

Vilnius, Universiteto g. 3, LT-01131

Institution that has carried out assessment

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Institution that has performed accreditation, accreditation term

Studijų kokybės vertinimo centras, 7/1/2020

Data provided or updated (date)

10/28/2019

Order on accreditation

SV6-14
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Summary of the Profile

Objective (s) of a study programme:
To prepare pharmaceutical professionals who have the knowledge necessary for pharmaceutical activity in different areas of health, able to carry out pharmaceutical research, drug development and address their use of medical practice problems, analyze and produce knowledge of medicinal products, provide pharmacy service and are able to maintain the appropriate level of professional excellence through lifelong learning.
Learning outcomes:
1. Knowledge and its application.
1.1. Is able to search, organize and assimilate both general and specific pharmaceutical sciences.
1.2. Is able to apply the acquired knowledge in pharmaceutical sciences, pharmaceutical care by providing the necessary and additional health services in various areas, the pharmaceutical technology trade market.
1.3. Knows legal, economic and professional ethical requirements relating to the pharmaceutical business and is able to apply them in all areas of pharmaceutical activity.
2. Ability to carry out research.
2.1.Is able to perform pharmaceutical research, the application of theoretical and experimental pharmaceutical research methods to evaluate the results and determine their reliability.
3. Special skills
3.1. Is able to adapt acquired knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences to medicines and materials used in their manufacture, to choose pharmaceutical technologies to forms and analysis of medicine. Is able to organize the keeping, storage and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
3.2. Is able to provide pharmaceutical services to patients in clinical pharmacist's professional competence level.
4. Social skills
4.1. Is able to clear and argumentative conveyance of the pharmaceutical practice and scientific knowledge to health system professionals and other individuals, critical evaluation of the scientific literature and media data.
4.2. Is able to lead, to take responsibility and work independently in the pharmaceutical and other health system specialist team.
5. Personal skills
5.1. Is able to learn, improve and update the knowledge and practical skills and pursue new ones.
5.2. Is able to identify their research interests in the context of modern pharmaceutical sciences
Activities of teaching and learning:
Lectures in auditoriums, laboratories exercises, workshops, laboratory work, practice in companies/ institutions, consulting, master's thesis, self-study.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Continuous/intermediate (test, work during the exercise, performance report) and a final evaluation (exam) or credit. Exams and credits are carried in writing or orally and in writing. The results are evaluated by grades from 1 to 10 in ten-point grading system or are credited. The subject is settled, where the final evaluation is higher than 4 points, in the case of the credit is "credited“. The final evaluation of the results of subject is the cumulative grade, the composition of which is calculated according to the proportions indicated in subject‘s description.
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Group 1 (Pharmaceutical sciences):
Introduction to Pharmacy; Pharmacology; Biopharmacy; Pharmacognsy and Phytoterapy; Pharmaceutical Care and Communication; Pharmacotherapy and Rational Drug Use; Drug Technology; Intercultural Competence in Pharmaceutical Practice; Hospital Pharmacy; Intelligent Therapeutic Medicines; Drug Consumption Studies; Drug Chemistry and the Search for New Drugs; Social Pharmacy; Development of Management and Pharmaceutical Care Skills (GIMMICS); Master's Thesis; Master exam.
Group 2 (Chemical Sciences):
Analytical/ General and Inorganic / Physical / Organic / Drug / Pharmaceutical / Biophysical Chemistries; Analytical toxicology.
Group 3 (Biology and physics sciences):
Plant Biology; Human Anatomy and Histology; Animal Biology; Applied Physics; Molecular Biophysics of Proteins and Pharmaceutical.
Group 4 (Medical Sciences):
Clinical medicine; Pathological physiology, and Immunology; Biochemistry; Microbiology; Nutrition and Food Supplements; Human Physiology; Human and Medicine genetics, Laboratory Medicine; Innovative Technologies in Medicine; Evidence-based and Complementary Medicine
Group 5 (General Education):
Health Economics and Management; Pharmaceutical Economics; Pharmaceutical Law and Professional Ethics; Foreign language; Professional Latin Language and Terminology; Research Work Methodology and Statistical Modeling.
The program provides professional practice composed 20 credits.
Optional courses:
Elective subjects include 30 credits, of which 15 credits are elective courses of general university training and 20 credits are from elective courses of the programme.
Distinctive features of a study programme:
In addition to basic pharmaceutical knowledge, students will acquire knowledge of modern pharmaceuticals, innovative medicines, best practices in pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical care, and will develop the practical skills required to conduct pharmaceutical activities.
Access to professional activity:
- Wholesale and retail pharmaceutical companies;
- Drug manufacturing companies;
- State institutions;
- Higher education institutions and science research institutions;
- Representatives of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Access to further study:
The graduate will be able to study doctoral studies in Health Sciences at Lithuanian universities and other European Union universites.