CHEMISTRY FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS
The pharmacy profession and the role of pharmacists in the modern healthcare systems have evolved quite rapidly over the last couple of decades. The services that pharmacists provide are expanding with the introduction of supplementary prescribing, provision of health checks, patient counselling and many others. The main ethos of pharmacy profession is now as much about keeping people healthy as treating them when they are not well.The modern pharmacy profession is shifting away from a
product focus and towards a patient focus. To cope with these changes, and
to meet the demand of the modern pharmacy profession, the pharmacy
curriculum, especially in the developed world, has evolved significantly. In
the western countries, almost all registered pharmacists are employed by the
community and hospital pharmacies. As a consequence, the practice, law,
management, care, prescribing science and clinical aspects of pharmacy
have become the main components of pharmacy curriculum. In order to
incorporate all these changes, naturally, the fundamental science components,
e.g. chemistry, statistics, pharmaceutical biology, microbiology,
pharmacognosy and a few other topics, have been reduced remarkably.
The impact of these recent changes is more innocuous in the area of
pharmaceutical chemistry
