Umm Al-Qura University

Umm Al-Qura University

Postgraduate Studies


- 2024/09/19

Postgraduate Studies:

Starting from the academic year 2020-2021, the UQU College of Pharmacy offers three master's programs, which are as follows:

1. MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

The Master of Clinical Pharmacy program is designed to develop and enhance clinical pharmacy practice, knowledge, and skills of pharmacists to meet ever changing and challenging needs of healthcare system and society and in accordance with the Saudi Vision 2030. The program will enable the graduates to be appointed as senior clinical pharmacist as per the criteria set by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties after fulfilling the two-and-half-years required experience, which would make him/her competitive for the job market.

 

2. MSc in Clinical Toxicology

This program grants a master's degree in clinical toxicology. To join this program, the student should be a graduate of the College of Medicine or the College of Pharmacy. 

Courses are distributed over four semesters. During the first semester, a group of qualifying courses dealing with pharmacology, patho-physiology, medical chemistry, biological research methods and statistics on clinical toxicology are offered, adding up to 195 training hours and 15 credit hours. During the second semester, the first part of clinical toxicology is offered in 78 learning hours and 6 credit hours. During the third semester, the courses cover the second part of clinical toxicology, covering 80 teaching hours and 8 credit hours. The fourth semester is dedicated to the performance of the complementary research, writing and submitting the thesis, as well as undergoing field training in the fields of clinical toxicology. This is equivalent to 24 credit hours.

Learners are trained and given a chance to gain practical skills on how to deal with, prevent, diagnose, and treat different cases of poisoning at specialized centers and hospitals.

 

 


Our main objective in this regard is to benefit the local and national community through the graduation of highly qualified and trained specialists. This is in addition to benefiting the research environment by providing an experienced workforce in various research fields.

Through this program, graduates are appointed as specialized pharmacists, or first batch specialized pharmacists, in accordance with the standards set by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

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