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For a long time, Pharmacy graduates in India had been found wanting in clinical skills and the experience and the conventional 4-year B. Pharmacy course had not addressed the issues of clinical practice.

As a result, the Universities in United States of America had refused to recognise the B. Pharmacy degree since 2003 for pursuing clinical practice.

This had put many Pharmacy graduates, who had gone to the US, in quandary.

“The course curriculum has been drafted to meet international standards and designed in such a way that the students would get five years of theoretical knowledge and one year of clinical exposure at any of the government or corporate hospitals, with a minimum bed strength of 300,” Pharmacy Council of India President B. Suresh told Education Plus in Guntur.

Those who are already pursuing B. Pharmacy degree, would have the option of pursuing a three-year PG course called, Post Bachelorate Pharm.D, which would make them eligible to practice anywhere in the world.

They would have two years of study in theory and one year of internship and training in clinical practices.

Colleges wishing to commence the course should recruit M. Pharmacy graduates and the PCI would aid and assist the colleges with Continuing Education Programmes. “We have devised training modules which would be sent to all the colleges in the coming three months,” Mr. Suresh said.

All Intermediate students with Biological subjects as their group subjects and are eligible to apply for the course, for which the admissions would start from 2008. The admission for this course is through common entrance tests.

P. SAMUEL JONATHAN,

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