Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons)
- Field Of Study:
- Health, Medicine & Welfare
- Level Of Study:
- Undergraduate
- Course Subject:
- Pharmacy
- Course Intake:
- September
Introduction
The Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) is a 4-year program that is conducted at MAHSA University.
Pharmacy is major professional health care discipline. The pharmacist is the ultimate drug expert who has a key role as the intermediary between physician, drug company and patient.
This integrated program’s curriculum is designed as a broad-based program to sufficiently expose students to all perspective of pharmacy practice, with the opportunities for specialization. This curriculum, coupled with interactive teaching methods such as lectures, tutorials, seminars, workshops, practicals, clinical and industrial placements, computer-aided learning (CAL), problem-based learning methods (PBL) and utilization of modern technology in information and communication should be able to produce pharmacists that are knowledgeable, highly competent, ethical and with all the required characteristics of a professional that can contribute greatly to any field of pharmacy, such as hospitals, industries, community pharmacies or other related fields.
Within the curriculum, placement in various institutions which takes place in Semester 6,7 and 8 is used to familiarize and further develop student knowledge and skills in various areas of competency and professionalism. This supervised placement not only provides an opportunity to train them in the knowledge and skills needed to become a competent pharmacist, but also provides an opportunity to build soft skils such as time management, interpersonal skills ans sense of responsibilities through interaction and working with peers and health care professionals. This experience will prepare them to function in the dynamic health care system.
Program Outline
Semester 1
- MPHA 1101: Basic Anatomy
- MPHA 1102: Physiology I
- MPHA1105: Mathematics & Statistics for Pharmacy
- MPHA 1201: Pharmaceutical Chemistry I
- MPHA 1301: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics I – Introduction
- MPHA 1505: Communicative English for Pharmacy
- MPHA 1106: Pharmacoinformatics
- LAN 1004: Islamic Studies
- LAN 1005: Moral Studies
Semester 2
- MPHA 2104: Biochemistry
- MPHA 2103: Physiology II
- MPHA 2202: Pharmaceutical Chemistry II
- MPHA 2302: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics II – Peripheral Nervous System & Therapy
- MPHA 2601: Dosage Form Design I
- MPHA 2501: Pharmacy Practice I
- MPHA 2712: English
- LAN 1003: Malaysian Studies
Semester 3
- MPHA 3107: Pharmaceutical Microbiology
- MPHA 3108: Pharmaceutical Immunology
- MPHA 3303: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics III – Central Nervous System & Therapy
- MPHA 3304: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics IV – Endocrine, Gastrointestinal System & Therapy
- MPHA 3502: Pharmacy Practice II
- MPHA 3203: Pharmaceutical Analysis I
- MPHA 3205: Medicinal Chemistry
- MPHA 3602: Dosage Form Design II – Solid
Semester 4
- MPHA 4603: Dosage Form Design III – Liquid & Semi-Solid
- MPHA 4305: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics V – Respiratory, Haematological System & Therapy
- MPHA 4306: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics VI – Antimicrobials & Antineoplastics
- MPHA 4701: Pharmacognosy
- MPHA 4204: Pharmaceutical Analysis II
- MPHA 4406: Evidence-based Pharmacotherapy
- MPHA 4503: Pharmacy Practice III
- MPHA 4702: Drugs in Sports
Semester 5
- MPHA 5604: Dosage Form Design IV – Sterile
- MPHA 5401: Clinical Pharmacy I
- MPHA 5307: Scientific Basis of Therapeutics VII – Cardiovascular, Renal System & Therapy
- MPHA 5405: Clinical Pharmacokinetics
- MPHA 5703: Biostatistics & Epidemiology
- MPHA 5504: Pharmacy Practice IV
- MPHA 5605: Radiopharmacy
- MPHA 5704: Veterinary Pharmacy
Semester 6
- MPHA 6705: Pharmacoeconomics & Drug Policy
- MPHA 6402: Clinical Pharmacy II
- MPHA 6308: Pharmacotoxicology
- MPHA 6606: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
- MPHA 6506: Extemporaneous Preparations
- MPHA 6508: Community Pharmacy
- MPHA 6707: Drugs and Substances of Abuse
- MPHA 6708: Pharmacogenomics
Semester 7
- MPHA 7709: Research Methodology
- MPHA 7507: Pharmacy Ethics & Legislations
- MPHA 7403: Clinical Pharmacy III
- MPHA 7706: Complementary Medicines
- MPHA 7509: Hospital Pharmacy Services
- MPHA 7510: Industrial Pharmacy & Quality Assurance
Semester 8
- MPHA 8710: Research Project
- MPHA 8711: Pharmacy Management
- MPHA 8511: Industrial Pharmacy & Regulatory Control
- MPHA 8404: Clinical Pharmacy IV
Entry Requirements
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons)
Degree
- 5 credits with Grade B for Maths, Add Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Biology or other technical subjects.
** Grade C for Bahasa Malaysia & English (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
- STPM: Min CGPA 3.00 including chemistry.
** Band 3 for MUET (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
- A’Level : Grade B for three subjects including chemistry ** 3B/ 2A1C/ 1A1B1C for Biology and Chemistry and Physics / Maths with B for Chemistry. (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
- Diploma in Science (UiTM), min CGPA 3.80
** Diploma in Science, CGPA 3.75 with B in Chemistry (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
** Diploma in Pharmacy, min CGPA 3.5 (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
- Matriculation:
UIAM : Min CGPA 3.00.Other Matriculations, min CGPA 3.00 for 3 science subjects or maths.
** Matriculation, min CGPA 3.0 with B for Chemistry (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement)
- Foundation in Science:
min CGPA 3.00 and Grade B for three subjects including chemistry.
Trinity College Foundation, min 65% for three subjects including chemistry
** FIS min CGPA 3.5 (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement).
- Bachelor of Bio-medical/ other science field, min 2nd class upper or CGPA 2.50 and above.
** Degree in Science, min CGPA 2.75 (Malaysia Pharmacy Board requirement).
- UEC : 5 credits with Grade 4B for Chemistry, Maths, Add Maths, Physics and Biology or other technical subjects.
- SAM : Score 14 for three subjects including chemistry.
- MUFY : 70% aggregrate for three subjects including chemistry.
- CPU/ Western Australian Curriculum Council/ HSC- Sydney Australia : 65% aggregrate for three subjects including chemistry.
- IB : Min Score 30 for three subjects including chemistry (2 subjects in the Higher Level (HL) and 1 subject in the Standard Level (SL) ).
- CIMP/ Indian Pre-U : 75% aggregrate for three subjects including chemistry.
- American High School with Advance Placement (AP) : Min CGPA 3.00 for three subjects including chemistry.
- New Zealand Bursary : 76% for three subjects inlcuding chemistry.
- UNSW : 65% aggregate for three of these subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Physics/ Maths.
Intakes
Career Prospects
Degree
The graduates will be able to work in the following sectors:
- Public hospital / clinics
- Private hospitals
- Community pharmacists
- Pharmaceutical factory
- Production manager
- QC manager
- Research & development
- Sales & marketing
- GMP head
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Sales
- Marketing
- Consultancy
- Clinical trial
- Cosmetic industry
- Nutraceutical industry
- Regulatory pharmacy
- Regulatory affair manager
- Regulators
- Forensic pharmacy
- Enforcement
- Legislation
- Academic
- Lecturers
- Researchers
Source :MAHSA University
