The University Of Georgia

BSc in Pharmacy

Bachelor Pharmacy program in English," covers 240 ECTS credits and consists of the main subjects of 222 ECTS and 18 ECTS credits in elective subjects (which are selected from 57 ECECTS elective credits). The compulsory modules of the core subjects of English-speaking students of 12 ECTS credits (KART1141 Georgian as a Foreign Language I (6 ECTS) and KART1142 Georgian as a Foreign Language II (6 ECTS)); Georgian students to major 12 ECTS credits (ENGL3218 English Language doctors (C 1/1) (6 ECTS) ENGL3219 English Language and doctors (C 1/2) (6 ECTS) compulsory subject. Students are offered semester courses, intensive cycle system hands-on exercises are carried out in pharmaceutical companies (enterprise practice) and facilities (pharmacy chain, health care clinics), also practical lessons are given in the University –owned simulation pharmacy and in the appropriate laboratories.

Knowledge and understanding

• Knows, describes and defines basic principles and characteristics of physiological and pathological processes in the human body, methods of examination and treatment of internal diseases;
• Describes, explains, distinguishes, compares and reviews patterns of molecular mechanisms of vital processes, inheritance and variability, and main aspects of physiological and pathological processes;
• Can demonstrate basic knowledge of complex issues of pharmaceutical factory and pharmacy technologies: classification of drug forms, dosage, pharmacy and factory technology of medicines, normative-technical documentation;
• Understands the importance of rational pharmacotherapy in conducting polypragmasia, ineffective, toxic and dangerous medication treatment.

Skills

• Prepares medicines according to the rules of extemporal preparation (according to the prescription);
• Uses the methods of serial production of pharmaceutical products;
• Performs chemical, biological and toxicological analysis/testing of pharmaceutical products;
• Collects, processes, explains, evaluates and formulates relevant conclusions on the data for the implementation of pharmaceutical activities (production and sale of pharmaceutical products, pharmaceutical care).

Responsibility and autonomy

• Assesses his/her own learning process in the fields of pharmaceutical activities and determines need for further study in pharmacology pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacognosy, pharmacotherapy and clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, pharmaceutical management;
• Ensures observance of professional, ethical and legal (both local and international) norms of personal data protection in pharmaceutical practice and research and strives to establish them in practice.

• Lectures and seminars;
• Methods of working with books;
• Discussion;
• The explanatory method;
• Demonstration methods;
• Usage of video and audio learning materials;
• Interactive lessons;
• Situational tasks;
• Role-playing tasks;
• Practical work;
• Laboratory work;
• Teamwork
• Formulation of problems and their solutions;
• Critical analysis;
• Group assignments;
• Projects;
• Problem-oriented activities;
• Case study and analysis
• Literature review;
• Searching for materials in the library or in electronic format;
• Methods of written work
• Methods of essay writing ;
• Presentation;
• Verbal or oral method;
• Observation method;
• Electronic and non-electronic medical records;
• Clinical, practical lessons