Pharmacy Practice & Clinical Pharmacy Department

The department is constantly updating its curriculum in line with the healthcare sector transformation plan. The department aims to prepare competent professional pharmacists who provide healthcare across various sectors. The department strives to be a leader in education, training, and research.

Clinical Pharmacy, locally and regionally, provides the best healthcare services to individuals, institutions, and the community.

The department offers courses that prepare students to play an effective role within the healthcare team, in line with the requirements of the profession and the labor market. This is achieved by providing students with information about diseases, their causes, symptoms, progression, and methods of prevention and treatment. Students discuss the therapeutic effects of various medications through a sound understanding of the therapeutic effects of various medications.

Pharmacokinetics and clinical testing, and the ability to recognize drug side effects and toxicities. This includes pharmacy outcomes and policies, pharmacoepidemiology and medication safety, health policy, and Pharmacoeconomics. The department seeks to develop graduates’ skills by providing simulation experiences in pharmacy practice laboratories.

The department participates in training intern pharmacists in the areas of pharmacy practice in hospitals, community pharmacies, and drug and poison information centers. The department, in collaboration with affiliated units such as the Pharmacoeconomics Unit, the Pharmacokinetics Unit, and the Community Pharmacy Unit, and in collaboration with the Drug and Poison Information Center, aims to conduct research and development in relevant fields.

The department also has research activities in several sub-specialties such as pharmaceutical care outcomes and policies, pharmacokinetics, pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, health policies and Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenomics, and pharmacy practice in several specialties such as infectious diseases, cardiology, oncology, ambulatory care, and critical care, carried out by a select group of faculty members and researchers in the department.