UMH - Bachelor's in Pharmacy

Bachelor's in Pharmacy

Bachelor

Years:

Campus: Sant Joan d'Alacant

Faculty of Pharmacy

Field of knowledge: Health Sciences

Instruction: Classroom

Places available: 125.

Tuition (€) per ECTS credit:

The monetary amounts correspond to each final examination call

1st: 21.16

2nd: 40.07

3rd: 85.01

4th: 113.34

Program website: http://farmacia.umh.es

Description

The Bachelor's in Pharmacy program aims to provide broad and general scientific, technical, and health training in all aspects related to drugs and medicines in order to qualify pharmacists to competently carry out, in a general manner, the functions required in the various fields wherein these tasks are performed. Program training also strives to qualify pharmacists to work in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and healthcare systems, as well as create experimental designs in the field of the health sciences. All of this is accomplished with adherence to ethical values of respect and the ethical constraints that are required.

Career opportunities

Regulated profession: Yes

The Bachelor's in Pharmacy program qualifies its graduates for the profession of pharmacist and enables them exclusively against other professionals to practice this health profession, employed either by someone or on their own account, under the situations required by Law 44/2003, of 21 November, on the Ordering of Health-Related Professions.

Activities related to the production and storage of medicine, collaboration in analytical processes, roles in the fields of care, research, teaching, clinical management, prevention, and health information and education correspond to pharmacy graduates, competing freely with other professionals.

Specific professional activities of pharmacists:
- Pharmacy. The owner of a pharmacy must be a pharmacist.
- Hospital pharmacy. This requires specialization.
- Technical management of drug distribution centers.
- Positions of pharmacist in specific bodies serving public administrations (National Health, pharmaceutical inspectors of the Spanish National Health System, primary care, armed forces pharmacy).

Activities pharmacists can perform along with other professionals:
- Pharmaceutical, veterinary, chemical, cosmetic industries.
- Clinical analysis (biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology).
- Food and nutrition: nutritional consultant and bromatologist.
- Education and research.

Program Coordinator

FONT SANCHIS, ENRIQUE
enrique.font(arroba)umh.es
+34 96 665 8926
REIG MACIA, JUAN ANTONIO
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+34 96 591 9481

Program delegates

SOLER PEREZ, MIREYA
PROGRAM DELEGATE
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MAÑAS VALERO, ISAAC
PROGRAM SUBDELEGATE
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SANCHEZ GARCIA, PAULA DEL CARMEN
FIRST YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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LOPEZ TORAL, ALBERTO
FIRST YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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RUIZ CASCALES, SARA TERESA
SECOND YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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TITOS CHECA, ANTONIO
SECOND YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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GRAU ORCAJADA, NAIARA ENCARNACION
THIRD YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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FORNER BONMATI, JAVIER
THIRD YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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SOLER PEREZ, MIREYA
FOURTH YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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MAÑAS VALERO, ISAAC
FOURTH YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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MENA MARTIN, SERGIO
FIFTH YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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MARTINEZ CUBI, JERONIMO
FIFTH YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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Curriculum

ECTS credits: 300

Core	Required	Electives	External internships	Final Degree Project
60	196.5	13.5	24	6

Design

The pharmacy curriculum consists of 300 credits divided into five 60-credit academic years, each of which is divided into two semesters.

The curriculum is distributed among modules, subject matter, courses, and semesters, and is detailed in the Courses section.

Electives make up the Transverse and Professional Competencies Module, and they afford the student program competencies that are specific to the professional profile the student is seeking.

Given that the pharmacist practices professionally within three large fields as are community pharmacy, industrial pharmacy, and hospital pharmacy, the program electives offer the future graduate six courses to promote training oriented towards each of these professional profiles:

- Students who are interested in working in a pharmacy should opt for courses such as DERMOPHARMACY and/or BUSINESS CREATION.
- Students who prefer working in industry are advised to take the courses of GENETIC ENGINEERING, PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO PHARMACY, DERMOPHARMACY, and/or BUSINESS CREATION.
- Future hospital pharmacists will need further training in areas related with hospital specialties, and some of this knowledge can be acquired in courses such as DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF TROPICAL DISEASES, DERMOPHARMACY, and/or PALYNOLOGY AND ALLERGY.
The program's electives are listed in the Courses section, and are part of the Transversal and Professional Competencies Module. This module can be completed either by taking these electives or by recognition for a series of activities such as in-house and external internships, language skills, taking UMH Continuing Education courses, professional work experience, attending University workshops and conferences, etc. For complete information regarding this recognition, click on the following link: http://estudios.umh.es/reconocimiento-creditos/grados/

Courses

Module	Subject matter	Course	ECTS credits	Type	Year/Semester
					1		2		3		4		5
					F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S
Physics and Mathematics
	Mathematics
		APPLIED MATHEMATICS
			APPLIED MATHEMATICS	6	Core	■
	Physics
		PHYSICS
			PHYSICS	6	Core	■
Biology
	Biology
		CYTOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY
			CYTOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY	6	Core	■
	Biochemistry
		BIOCHEMISTRY
			BIOCHEMISTRY	6	Core		■
	Pharmaceutical Botanics
		BOTANY
			BOTANY	6	Core		■
	Microbiology and Parasitology
		MICROBIOLOGY
			MICROBIOLOGY	7.5	Required				■
		PARASITOLOGY
			PARASITOLOGY	4.5	Required				■
	Advanced Biology
		ADVANCED BIOCHEMISTRY
			ADVANCED BIOCHEMISTRY	6	Required			■
		PHARMACOGNOSY AND PHYTOTHERAPY
			PHARMACOGNOSY AND PHYTOTHERAPY	6	Required					■
		PHARMACY APPLIED GENETICS
			PHARMACY APPLIED GENETICS	6	Required					■
Chemistry
	Chemistry
		GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
			GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY	6	Core		■
		LABORATORY CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES
			LABORATORY CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES	6	Core	■
	Advanced Chemistry
		ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
			ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY	6	Required			■
		INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES
			INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES	6	Required				■
		PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
			PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY	6	Required			■
	Organic Chemistry
		ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
			ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I	6	Required			■
		ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
			ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II	7.5	Required				■
	Pharmaceutical Chemistry
		MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY I
			MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY I	6	Required					■
		MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY II
			MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY II	6	Required						■
Medicine and Pharmacology
	Human Anatomy
		ANATOMY
			ANATOMY	6	Core	■
	Physiology
		HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
			HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY	6	Core		■
	Immunology
		IMMUNOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY
			IMMUNOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY	6	Required					■
	Clinical Theory and Practice
		CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSTICS I
			CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSTICS I	6	Required							■
		CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSTICS II
			CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSTICS II	6	Required							■
		CLINICAL PATHOLOGY I
			CLINICAL PATHOLOGY I	6	Required			■
		CLINICAL PATHOLOGY II
			CLINICAL PATHOLOGY II	4.5	Required				■
		CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
			CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY	4.5	Required								■
	Pharmacology
		PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY I
			PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY I	6	Required					■
		PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY II
			PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY II	6	Required						■
		PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY III
			PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY III	7.5	Required							■
	Nutrition and Bromatology
		BROMATOLOGY, NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY
			BROMATOLOGY, NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY	7.5	Required						■
	Toxicology
		TOXICOLOGY
			TOXICOLOGY	7.5	Required								■
	Pharmaceutical Care
		PHARMACEUTICAL CARE
			PHARMACEUTICAL CARE	7.5	Required									■
Pharmacy and Technology
	Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics
		BIOPHARMACEUTICALS AND PHARMACOKINETICS I
			BIOPHARMACEUTICALS AND PHARMACOKINETICS I	4.5	Required						■
		BIOPHARMACEUTICALS AND PHARMACOKINETICS II
			BIOPHARMACEUTICALS AND PHARMACOKINETICS II	4.5	Required							■
	Galenics
		GALENIC I
			GALENIC I	6	Required						■
		GALENIC II
			GALENIC II	6	Required							■
		GALENIC III
			GALENIC III	6	Required								■
Legislation and Social Pharmacy
	Psychology
		PSYCHOLOGY
			PSYCHOLOGY	6	Core		■
	Professional Pharmaceutical Practice
		LAW AND ETHICS
			LAW AND ETHICS	4.5	Required								■
		PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
			PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING	4.5	Required									■
		PUBLIC HEALTH
			PUBLIC HEALTH	7.5	Required								■
		SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION
			SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION	4.5	Required									■
Transversal and Professional Competencies
	Program Electives
		BUSINESS CREATION
			BUSINESS CREATION	4.5	Elective									■
		DERMOPHARMACY
			DERMOPHARMACY	4.5	Elective									■
		DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF TROPICAL DISEASES
			DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF TROPICAL DISEASES	4.5	Elective									■
		GENETIC ENGINEERING
			GENETIC ENGINEERING	4.5	Elective									■
		PALYNOLOGY AND ALLERGY
			PALYNOLOGY AND ALLERGY	4.5	Elective									■
		PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO PHARMACY
			PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO PHARMACY	4.5	Elective									■
External Practice and Final Degree Project
	External Practice
		EXTERNAL PRACTICES I
			EXTERNAL PRACTICES I	6	Internships										■
		EXTERNAL PRACTICES II
			EXTERNAL PRACTICES II	6	Internships										■
		EXTERNAL PRACTICES III
			EXTERNAL PRACTICES III	6	Internships										■
		EXTERNAL PRACTICES IV
			EXTERNAL PRACTICES IV	6	Internships										■
	Final Degree Project
		FINAL DEGREE PROJECT
			FINAL DEGREE PROJECT	6	Final Degree Project										■

Competencies

General competencies

Understand the structure and function of the human body at different stages of development.
Know the economic, cultural, and social factors affecting the health sciences professions, as well as the economic, ethical, and social implications of professional decisions.
Understand current legislation for the exercise of the profession.
Identify the differences between normal human body function and its changes and determine the impact from demographic, environmental, social, and cultural determinants of the health of a population.
Hypothesize, assess information, and promote viable solutions to cases and professional situations.
Apply the professional code of ethics considering user rights and existing legislation.
Ability to analyze, evaluate, and assess individual and group situations, identify problems, interpret data, and formulate solutions to individual and/or group problems.
Assess information critically and apply the scientific method to improve the profession.
Establish good interpersonal communication to address the community you work with and the individuals you relate to effectively and with empathy.
Be capable of working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and leading multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to update, consolidate, and integrate new knowledge to improve the profession using continuous self-learning techniques and critical analysis.
Capability to use and promote innovation and creativity to resolve professional problems.

Specific competencies

Identify, design, obtain, analyze, control, and produce drugs and medicines, as well as other products and raw materials with a health interest for human and/or veterinary use.
Evaluate the therapeutic and toxic effects of pharmacologically active substances.
Know how to apply the scientific method and acquire skills to handle legislation, information sources, bibliographies, the development of protocols, and other aspects considered necessary for the design and critical assessment of preclinical and clinical trials.
Design, prepare, supply, and dispense medicines and other health products of interest.
Provide therapeutic counseling in pharmacotherapy and diet therapy, as well as within the nutritional and food fields at establishments providing services.
Promote the rational use of medicines and health products, as well as acquire basic knowledge in clinical management, health economics, and efficient use of health resources.
Identify, evaluate, and assess the problems related with drugs and medicines, as well as participate in pharmacovigilance activities.
Perform activities of clinical and social pharmacy, following the cycle of pharmaceutical care.
Intervene in health promotion activities and disease prevention for the individual, family, and community with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary vision of the health-disease process.
Design, implement, and assess reagents, clinical analytical methods and techniques, knowing the fundamental basics of clinical analysis and the nature and content of laboratory diagnostic reports.
Evaluate the toxicological effects of substances, and design and implement the corresponding tests and analyses.
Develop health and hygiene analysis, especially those related to food and the environment.
Develop communication and information skills, both oral and written, to deal with patients and users at the center where you work professionally. Promote work capabilities and collaboration in multidisciplinary teams and those related with other health professionals.
Know the ethical and deontological principles in terms of the legal, regulatory, and administrative provisions governing the profession, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing social context.
Recognize your own limitations and the need to maintain and update professional skills, placing special emphasis on self-learning of new knowledge based on available scientific evidence.

Professional competencies

Identify, design, obtain, analyze, and produce active ingredients, drugs, and other products and materials of health interest.
Select appropriate techniques and procedures in the design, application, and evaluation of reagents and analytical methods and techniques.
Perform standard laboratory procedures, including the use of scientific equipment for synthesis and analysis, including proper instrumentation.
Estimate the risks associated with the use of chemical substances and laboratory procedures.
Know the physical and chemical characteristics of the substances used to manufacture medicine.
Know and understand the characteristics of reactions in solution, the different states of matter and the principles of thermodynamics, and its application to pharmaceutical sciences.
Know and understand the characteristic properties of elements and their compounds, as well as their application in the pharmaceutical field.
Know and understand the nature and behavior of functional groups in organic molecules.
Know the origin, nature, design, acquisition, analysis, and control of medications and health products.
Understand the principles and procedures for the analytical determination of compounds: analytical techniques applied to the analysis of water, food, and the environment.
Know and apply the main techniques of structural research including spectroscopy.
Apply knowledge of physics and mathematics to the pharmaceutical sciences.
Apply computational and data processing techniques in conjunction with information about physical, chemical, and biological data.
Design experiments based on statistical criteria.
Evaluate scientific data related to medications and health products.
Use statistical analysis applied to the pharmaceutical sciences.
Understand the structures of biomolecules and their transformations within the cell.
Develop skills related to the use of the beneficial effects of medicinal plants and understand the health risks associated with their misuse.
Estimate the biological risks associated with the use of substances and the associated laboratory processes.
Understand the relationship between the life cycle of infectious agents and the properties of active ingredients.
Develop skills for identifying therapeutic and biotechnological production of targets drugs and the use of gene therapy.
Know and understand the microbiological control of medications.
Understand the properties of cell membranes and drug distribution.
Understand the nature and behavior of infectious agents.
Know the main metabolic pathways involved in drug degradation.
Know medicinal plants: botanical diversity, physiology, use, and management.
Design, optimize, and develop pharmaceutical forms that ensure their quality, including the formulation and quality control of medications, the development of master formulas and products prepared in a pharmacy.
Apply quality control to health products, dermo-pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and packaging material.
Understand the processes of liberation, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs and factors that condition absorption and disposition according to the administration routes.
Schedule and correct drug dosages based on their pharmacokinetic parameters.
Understand the physical, chemical, and biopharmaceutical properties of the primary active ingredients and excipients and the possible interactions between them.
Understand the stability of active ingredients and pharmaceutical forms as well as the methods of study.
Understand the basic operations and technological processes related with the production and control of medication.
Determine the bioavailability, assess the bioequivalence, and the factors that condition them.
Use medicine safely, keeping their physical and chemical properties in mind, including any risks associated with their use.
Know and understand the fundamentals of clinical analyses and the characteristics and contents of the opinions of laboratory diagnosis.
Develop hygiene and health analysis (biochemical, food science, microbiological, parasitological) related with health in general and with food and the environment in particular.
Assess the effects of substances with pharmacological activity.
Know and understand the techniques used in the design and evaluation of preclinical and clinical trials.
Perform activities of clinical and social pharmacy, following the cycle of pharmaceutical care.
Encourage the rational use of medicine and health products.
Acquire the necessary skills in order to provide therapeutical counseling in pharmacotherapy and diet therapy, as well as nutritional and food consulting to the users of those establishments proving them service.
Understand the relationship existing between food and health, and the importance of the diet in the treatment and prevention of disease.
Know and understand the management and characteristics of pharmaceutical care in the support structures of primary care and specialized care in the health care system.
Evaluate the toxicological effects of substances, and design and implement the corresponding tests and analyses.
Understand the properties and mechanisms of the actions of drugs.
Know and understand the structure and function of the human body, as well as the general mechanisms of disease, molecular, structural, and functional alterations, syndromic expression and therapeutic tools to restore health.
Understand the nature, mechanism of action, and effect of toxic materials, as well as the resources in cases of intoxication.
Understand the analytical techniques related with laboratory, toxic, food, and environmental diagnosis.
Know and understand the management and characteristics of pharmaceutical care in the domains of the pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Understand the fundamentals of public health care and intervene in activities of health promotion, disease prevention on individual and collective levels, and contribute to health education, recognizing the health determinants within a population.
Know, understand, and apply legal, social, and economic conditions related with the health field and in particular with medication.
Understand ethical and deontological principles and act according to the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions that govern professional practice with other health professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
Master information retrieval techniques related to primary and secondary sources of information (including databases with the use of a computer).
Understand and apply management techniques in all pharmacy activities.
Understand the scientific principles and methodology applied to the pharmaceutical sciences, including the history and the social function of pharmacy.
Possess basic knowledge of the Spanish National Health System, of health legislation in general, and that specifically related with medication, health products, and pharmaceutical care.
Understand oral and written communication techniques, acquiring skills that permit informing the users of pharmacies in terms that are intelligible and appropriate for diverse cultural levels and social environments.
Organize and manage the operations of a pharmacy.
Understand the operation and management of a hospital or primary care pharmacy, including the staff working in them.
Manage medications.
Rational conservation, custody, dispensing, and distribution of medication and other pharmaceutical products.
Develop master formulas and medicinal preparations.
Provide pharmaceutical care to patients.
Perform pharmacovigilance.
Perform the billing for a community pharmacy, if applicable.
Present and defend a final degree project before a university tribunal consisting of an exercise integrating the training contents received and the competencies acquired.

Final project

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