Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D)
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Commencement of session : 1st August
Our institution is tied up with General Hospital Jayanagar, Bengaluru and Sparsh Hospital R R Nagar, Bengaluru for the Pharm.D course which is a super specialty tertiary care hospital with all the modern infrastructure and equipment to support the Pharm.D course. Our institution has been approved by Pharmacy Council of India and affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka
- Duration: 6 years (5 years study and 1year of internship in hospital)
- Eligibility: Pass in 12th Std / PUC / PDC / H.Sc / Intermediate with Physics
- Age: 17 yrs and above on 31st December of the year of admission
Attendance
A minimum of 80% attendance in both theory and practical classes is essential to get
eligibility for sessional and university examination
Internal Assessment Marks
Minimum Marks For Passing Examination
Project Work
To allow the student to develop data collection and reporting skills in the area of community, hospital and clinical pharmacy, a project work shall be carried out under the supervision of a teacher. The project topic must be approved by the Head of the Department or Head of the Institution. Project work shall be presented in a written report and as a seminar at the end of the year. External and the internal examiners shall do the assessment of the project work.
Hospital Posting
Internship Program
Every student must complete a one year mandatory internship period as per Appendix-C regulations.
Internship is a phase of training where a student is expected to conduct actual practice of pharmacy and health care and acquires skills under supervision so that he or she may become capable of functioning independently.
A student shall be permitted to start the internship only after having passed in theory and practical of all subjects of all previous years.Every student has to undergo one-year internship as per PCI regulations.
Nargund College of Pharmacy is attached to General Hospital Jayanagar, Bengaluru is a state of the art Medical Center with 1000 beds, and Pharm D programmes of Nargund College of Pharmacy uses the facilities for clinical rounds.
Nargund College of Pharmacy also operates Drug Information Center in the hospital premises and has a memorandum of understanding for knowledge sharing with the institution
Course Structure

1st YEAR
Course Structure
1.1 Human Anatomy and Physiology
1.2 Pharmaceutics
1.3 Medical Biochemistry
1.4 Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry
1.5 Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry
1.6 Remedial Mathematics/ Biology *

2nd YEAR
Course Structure
2.1 Pathophysiology
2.2 Pharmaceutical Microbiology
2.3 Pharmacognosy & Phytopharmaceuticals
2.4 Pharmacology-I
2.5 Community Pharmacy

3rd YEAR
Course Structure
3.1 Pharmacology-II
3.2 Pharmaceutical Analysis
3.3 Hospital Pharmacy
3.4 Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence
3.5 Medicinal Chemistry
3.6 Pharmaceutical Formulations

4th YEAR
Course Structure
4.1 Pharmacotherapeutics-I
4.2 Pharmacotherapeutics-II
4. Clinical Pharmacy
4.4 Biostatistics & Research Methodology
4.5 Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics

Final Year
BACHELOR OF PHARMACY
5.1 Pharmacotherapeutics-III
5.2 Clinical Research
5.3 Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
5.4 Clinical Pharmacokinetics & Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
5.5 Clerkship *
5.6 Project work (Six Months)

6th YEAR
Course Structure
In Year 6, students will undergo one year mandatory internship period
Internal Assessment Marks
Theory and
Practical
Preparation of the candidate,
Manipulative skills,
Results of the experiment,
Knowledge of the experiment,
Viva voce pertaining to the experiments.