Department of Pharmacy Techniques
Vision
The department seeks to remain prominent in preparing a distinguished staff to work in health institutions and develop health care, scientific research, entrepreneurship, and excellence in pharmaceutical education, scientific research, and community service at the local, national and regional levels. Innovation, leadership and innovation in pharmacy and pharmaceutical compounds and upgrading the quality level to qualify a distinguished pharmaceutical technical cadre to work in various State institutions and the private sector to serve our dear country to take its natural position among the countries of the developed world. It seeks to excel in pharmaceutical education and training and scientific research geared towards the development of pharmaceutical services dedicated to serving the patient and the community at the local, regional and international levels.
Message
The Department is an educational and research institution of general benefit to human health. The Department is keen to provide high quality education and training by state-of-the-art and multidisciplinary means to prepare pharmaceutical assistants with high scientific and professional abilities and skills to be leaders in their disciplines capable of spreading health culture, providing the best pharmaceutical services in the community and developing scientific research for the welfare of society and human health.
Objective
1-Preparing qualified pharmaceutical assistants to work in health institutions, private pharmacies, pharmaceutical laboratories, pharmaceutical factories, and private pharmaceutical marketing companies.
2- Updating and developing study plans in line with the needs of the labor market.
3-Take into account the market’s need when developing relevant specializations in pharmacy sciences.
4-Providing advanced and outstanding education to graduate qualified pharmacists’ assistants.
Graduate Description
The graduate can read prescriptions and dispense medications, as well as classifying and arranging them in the pharmacy under the supervision of the pharmacist.
In medication laboratories, he/she assists the pharmacist or chemist in preparing medicines, supervising, monitoring, and controlling production lines, applying quality control methods during drug production, and making laboratory preparations for examination or analysis.
The graduate can work in Factories of medical and chemical formulations and cosmetics, under the supervision of a pharmacist or chemist.
The graduate can work in drug stores, dispensaries, and laboratories where carry out all stages of storage, classification, and arrangement.
The graduate can operate pharmaceutical equipment such as pill grinding, pressing, pulverizing devices, and pill hardening devices.
Overview
The Pharmacy Department, founded in 1995, aims to prepare staff that works in pharmaceutical fields under the title (pharmacist assistant). After two years of qualifying study, the ratio of education and practical training will be about 60%, additionally the summer training, which the student is subjected to accomplish as a prerequisite of study fulfilment in the health directorate. Graduates of this department will be awarded a technical diploma in pharmacy. The top graduated students have the right to complete their academic studies in pharmacy colleges in the country’s universities.
classrooms and laboratories of the Pharmacy Techniques Department
