Pharmacy

Credit hours system, The Faculty of Pharmacy – Suez Canal University

Vision 

Scientific distinction and continuous development to serve the health treatment system and reach a high position globally in the Clinical Pharmacy domain.

Mission 

Prepare Pharmacists skilled with the latest pharmaceutical and medical concepts and can contribute to increasing the treatment system efficiency locally and regionally by dealing with the health team in the hospitals. Moreover, it offers professional pharmaceutical services in public and private pharmacies, drug companies, drug monitoring laboratories, and food analysis. In addition, to join the medicinal media and marketing domain and participate effectively in scientific research through research centers and universities to serve the community. 

Goals:

• Focus on the pharmacist's role in providing the appropriate health care service for the patient inside and outside the hospitals by following the prescribed drugs, studying drug clinical kinetics and its application in different cases, and finding out the matching treatment systems in coordination with the doctor. Improving the health care service offered for the patients and minimizing drug risks and interactions will be the result. 
• A qualified Pharmacist can join public and private pharmacies, drug companies, drug monitoring laboratories, food analysis, medicinal media, and marketing, research, and university domains.
• Increase graduates' competing ability regionally through educational and training programs.
• Participate in community service and environmental development and provide a noticeable economic return by rationing drug usage in the hospitals. 
• Commitment to achieving quality guidelines in pharmaceutical education using interactive learning and self-learning. 

Study System at the Faculty

1. Program Duration:

   • The program duration is five academic years (five levels over ten semesters) according to the credit hour system, plus one year of advanced training (internship) at work sites (5+1). Additionally, there are 100 actual field training hours in community and government pharmacies, and hospital pharmacies, completed during the summer vacations of the study years after the third level and before starting the internship year.

2. Academic Year Division:

   • Each academic level (year) is divided into two semesters (fall and spring), each lasting fifteen weeks. Some courses may be offered in a summer semester lasting six to eight weeks of intensive study.

3. Credit Hour:

   • A credit hour is a unit of academic measurement equivalent to a weekly theoretical lecture hour or a practical lesson lasting no less than two hours weekly, studied over one semester.

Academic Load

1. Academic Load:
   • The academic load is the number of credit hours a student registers for in one semester. The minimum academic load for a student in any semester should not be less than 12 credit hours and should not exceed 22 credit hours. The academic load for a struggling student should not exceed 12 credit hours. The academic load during the summer semester is a maximum of 10 credit hours.
   • The faculty council, upon approval from the committee overseeing the program, may allow a student in the last two semesters to exceed the maximum academic load by up to 3 credit hours (this benefit can be used only once).

Requirements for Obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy (Pharm D) and Clinical Pharmacy (Pharm D-Clinical Pharmacy)

1. Degree Requirements:

   • To obtain the degree according to the credit hour system, the following is required:

2. Firstly:

   • Study and pass a total of 176 credit hours distributed over ten semesters, including mandatory faculty requirements with a minimum of 168 credit hours (course distribution table) and elective faculty requirements representing 8 credit hours, with a cumulative GPA of not less than one.

3. Secondly:

   • Complete an initial field training period totaling 100 actual training hours in community, government, and hospital pharmacies approved by the faculty council, under the supervision of a faculty member, during the summer vacations of the study years after the third level. Additionally, complete the internship year (academic year - 9 months) after finishing the study years, according to the detailed internship program regulations, which include a graduation project in one of the offered specializations.

4. Thirdly:

   • Fulfill any additional graduation requirements set by the university, which do not count towards the student's semester or cumulative GPA.