Faculty of Pharmacy
The faculty offers a student-centered education assessed on a semester basis. The
program prepares you to become a competent pharmacist and a health care professional.
An important aim of the faculty is to supply you with a variety of skills that enables
you to provide your future patient with a leading edge pharmaceutical care.
The faculty members are continuously assessing and refining the courses’ curricula
in order to deliver an educational experience that goes beyond a traditional curriculum.
This is maintained to ensure excellence and currency, to deliver the quality of
education and service programs, and at the same time continue training the students
to become leaders in the profession of pharmacy. Part of the students’ practical
training is completed through collaboration with the dental clinic in the university,
utilizing your knowledge and skills for the best welfare of the community.
Academic Program
The Faculty of Pharmacy offers a five-year program (10 Semesters) leading to a Bachelor
of Pharmaceutical Sciences degree. Students must complete a minimum of 195 credit
hours for graduation. These hours include 24 credit hours of university requirements,
165 credit hours of faculty requirements, and 6 credit hours of elective courses.
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Objectives
The mission of the Faculty of Pharmacy is to prepare highly competent and
motivated pharmacists, responsive to society's needs of pharmaceutical care. The
mission of the Faculty of Pharmacy is fulfilled through the following goals:
Training students in providing efficient pharmaceutical services in a variety of
settings, including community pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, educational
institutions, and other organizations.
Providing students with expertise in planning drug therapy, formulation of different
dosage forms, preparing appropriate medications, and counseling patients on proper
drug usage and possible side effects.
Developing effective communication and management skills, as well as responsible
and ethical professional conduct of students.
Developing inquisitive and self-directed pharmacists who are critical thinkers,
lifelong learners, and problem-solvers.
Innovation
A unique feature of the undergraduate program is the collaborative relationship
with the Dental College. As a senior student, you’ll meet with patients of the dental
clinic to take a detailed medication history that becomes a part of the patient’s
file. By that you’ll be able to provide patient consultation on their prescribed
and non-prescribed medications. Originality of the program is manifested in the
developed students’ clinical pharmacy specialization. This enables you as an MIU
graduate to reach the highest professional pharmacy standards in the country.
Excellence in Teaching
Students are encouraged to be active, self-directed and life-long learners. Due
to the rapid evolution of new knowledge, future practitioners must be able to learn
independently. Therefore , a diversity of learning methodologies is used to develop
this ability in students. Examples of such learning include small group discussions,
problem based learning and solving patient cases, which involve the students in
solving actual patient cases that require integration of knowledge, skills, and
attitudes relevant in these disciplines. This is besides involving different departments
in conducting researches with collaboration with the research center in the university.
The five-years program includes several educational field trips to pharmaceutical
industrial facilities and to a natural plant conservation project and herparium in Saint
Catherine, Sinai.
Future Career
The Faculty of Pharmacy prepares you to work in nearly all pharmaceutical fields.
This includes dispensing drugs in private and public hospitals and institutional
pharmacies. It also enables you to work in research facilities, pharmaceutical factories,
laboratories, and in several related governmental and public organizations concerned
with drug monitoring, development and analysis. This is besides forensic medicine
institutions and drug marketing activities.
Accreditation
By the decree No 95 of the Ministry of higher Education on 26/7/99, the faculty
was accredited to grant the Bachelor of Pharmacy.