What is Pharmacy?
Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing as well as dispensing drugs and medicines. It is a health profession that links health sciences with chemical sciences and aims to ensure the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs.
Why study in Pharmacy in Gono Bishwabidyalay?
We are pioneers in pharmacy education, offering the longest-established pharmacy course in Bangladesh and the most progressive and modern. We have looked at the knowledge and skills that a pharmacist uses at the moment and the skills and knowledge we believe the pharmacist will require in the future. As a result a curriculum has been developed to equip you with the tools that you will take to the work place and provide you with a sound footing on which to build your career.
What do pharmacists do?
Pharmacists are experts in manufacturing of medicines and their use. Pharmacists have a unique knowledge of medicines from manufacture to their use in patients, spanning discovery, synthesis, formulation, manufacturing, quality assurance, distribution, therapeutics, and monitoring. Pharmacists provide healthcare in the high street, work in hospitals and GP practices and undertake medicines research in industry or universities.
Other Science Careers outside pharmaceuticals
Pharmacy graduates can enter a wide range of other science careers outside pharmacy. For details of these including medicine, laboratory science, science teaching, medical sales, information technology, patent work,
bioinformatics.
Pharmacy graduates are attractive to many employers outside science because of their personal transferable skills rather than the specific skills that they have gained during their degree course. These skills include the ability to analyse information in a logical way, numeracy and problem solving skills.