Revised syllabus of M Pharm & B Pharm to be out by mid-August
The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) may come
up with final notification on M Pharm and B Pharm syllabus by mid-August, 2016.
This is the first time PCI is introducing uniform syllabus for the courses across the country,
which aims to be more of industry oriented.
The council has notified the revised syllabus
on the website and invited public comments. Dr B Suresh, president of PCI
informed that they have received many comments and suggestion; and have
incorporated in the syllabus.
Dr Suresh says, “The curriculum of B Pharm
and M Pharm has already received feedback and the final version will be out in
mid of August. Whatever feedback we have received we have incorporated that
changes. The major changes made after the feedback was the alignment of the subject.
This is for the first that there is a unified course across the country. We
have structured it by keep in mind the job problems faced by the student and it
is more industry oriented.”
The course has been divided into the semester
and M Pharm is credit based semester system. As per the Credit Based Semester
System, certain quantum of academic work viz. theory classes, practical
classes, seminars, assignments, etc. are measured in terms of credits and the
candidate earns credits. The amount of credit associated with a course is
dependent upon the number of hours of instruction per week in that course.
Similarly the credit associated with any of the other academic,
co/extra-curricular activities is dependent upon the quantum of work expected
to be put in for each of these activities per week/per activity.
Biopharmaceutical, a new subject has been
included the syllabus. The Council has also emphasised on communication skill and computer skill
by making the subjects compulsory in the syllabus.
Many education experts have raised the
question about making the syllabus uniform, as they feel the construction of
syllabus should be done by the universities rather than by the PCI which would
lead to the competition among the universities for the better syllabus.
Answering the query, Dr Suresh said if we look at the universities, hardly
there were any changes in the syllabus for past 20 years. Now the standard has
been framed by the council. If the universities feel they can come with better
standard they can come to PCI we will be happy to incorporate the same.
Speaking about the availability of the
teacher and resources required for the implementation of the revised syllabus
as it is more of practical oriented, Dr Suresh said the teacher and the infrastructure of the institute are the same only
now they have to utilise the resources.
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