This Article was sent to Revolution Pharm.D by Second Year PHARM D (PB) students from Amrita School of Pharmacy,Kerala .
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Abstract
Diana Thomas, Maria C Paul, Sumitha C.
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Throughout the world the profession of pharmacy is growing up producing an adequate number of well trained pharmacists competent to practice the profession of pharmacy in the changing environment. Even with the remarkable growth achieved in the field of pharmacy, newer challenges are coming to the front which needs more planning and coordination between the various health care professionals. To provide better clinical pharmacy services to the society, the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) program was adopted in Asia during 1990’s from the west. The development of pharmacy education in Egypt, Lebanon, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE are discussed here. The first pharmacy program dates back to 1824 in Cairo University, Egypt. Even though the Madras Medical College started the first pharmacy course in 1860 in India it was only in 1932 it became a university programme in BHU. The first Pharm D programme was started in 1955 in University of California in San Francisco, USA. In the later years other countries followed this trend and started revising their pharmacy curriculum to match with that of USA. Pharm D in India was introduced in 2008 in about 20 colleges including Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu.
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