Program Overview

Introduction to the Bachelor of Pharmacy Program

The Health Sciences field is emerging as one of the UAE's strategic and largest growth areas. The Higher Colleges of Technology's Health Sciences Division offers a broad range of Health Sciences Bachelor, Higher Diploma, and Diploma programs, all designed to provide graduates with the skills and competencies needed to succeed in this challenging and rewarding field.

Faculty Mission

The Faculty mission is to develop robust, pedagogically sound, nationally and internationally accredited curricula through collaboration internally and externally, partnering with industry and community, particularly in the medical and health sector, to deliver learning and teaching programs that are technically and clinically evidence-based and research-informed, and to be highly innovative in the continuous improvement of each program, sensitive to the health and medical industry and community requirements, and emerging future workforce demands.

Program Description

The Bachelor of Pharmacy is a four and half-year program preparing graduates as Pharmacists for professional practice in different areas of Pharmacy. Graduates are educated to provide quality pharmaceutical care with a patient-centered focus. The program stresses knowledge of the biological, chemical, pharmaceutical, clinical, and social sciences that underpin pharmacy, an understanding of the relevance of that knowledge to patient care and pharmaceutical problem-solving, and the skills to apply that knowledge to specific pharmaceutical care circumstances.

Program Goals

1. Create an outstanding learning environment accentuating independent learning and problem-solving that will provide students with a high-quality education that meets societal needs.
2. Produce competent pharmacists capable of delivering pharmaceutical care within an inter-professional context and contribute to the advancement of the pharmacy profession.
3. Improve public health by enhancing the quality of healthcare provided by graduates and conducting innovative basic and applied pharmaceuticals and pharmacy practice research.
4. Contribute effectively to the local community through engagement and outreach.
5. Prepare graduates to be life-long learners and ready for continuing professional development.

Program Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this program, the graduate will be able to:

1. Provide patient-centered care by applying knowledge, management, and decision-making skills to meet patients' drug-related needs with the objective of achieving optimal patient outcomes and patient safety in clinical and non-clinical settings.
2. Apply the major principles of basic, biomedical, administrative, and core pharmaceutical and clinical sciences, to successfully assess and solve problems both in disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas of pharmacy.
3. Apply effective cognitive and technical skills within the framework of evidence-based practice and continuing quality assurance to develop, implement, and enhance processes and actions that ensure the safety, accuracy, and high standards of patient-centered care, pharmaceutical services, and supplied products.
4. Utilize the relevant advanced technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support quality professional practice routine as well as complex problems in a variety of pharmacy settings.
5. Work independently, lead or function as part of inter and intra-professional teams, implementing the professional practice standards in dealing with others in a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical settings.
6. Take responsibility for enhancing the professional attributes relevant to the pharmacist's role in general as well as specialized fields of practice by developing and maintaining professional competence.
7. Apply entrepreneurship and innovation skills to identify, develop, and create innovative opportunities and solutions that will strategically navigate the complex demands stemming from pharmacy and the healthcare overall.
8. Exhibit ethical and professional behaviors considering different cultural values and comply with laws and regulations related to pharmacy practice.