Hospital clinical pharmacy
Bedside clinical pharmacist roles in tertiary hospitals, drug-information centers, antimicrobial stewardship teams.
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Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D)
A clinically oriented doctoral program for pharmacists who want to work in patient care — hospitals, clinical research, pharmacovigilance, drug-information services.
- Duration
- 6 years (5 years academic + 1 year internship)
- Intake
- 30 seats
- Eligibility
- Intermediate (10+2) with PCB / PCM; minimum 50% aggregate
Overview
About the program.
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D)Pharm.D is the clinical pharmacy doctorate approved by the Pharmacy Council of India. Vaagdevi's program runs five years of academic instruction followed by a one-year hospital internship at affiliated tertiary-care facilities in and around Warangal.
From year 3, students rotate through wards and clinics — internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics, psychiatry — under qualified preceptors. The program closes with a clinical research project supervised by a faculty member and a hospital clinician.
Year-by-year structure.
Topic outline per year — actual subject codes follow the latest PCI / KU syllabus.
Year 1
Human Anatomy & Physiology · Pharmaceutics · Medicinal Biochemistry · Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry · Communication Skills
Year 2
Pathophysiology · Pharmaceutical Microbiology · Pharmacognosy & Phytopharmaceuticals · Pharmacology I · Community Pharmacy
Year 3
Pharmacology II · Pharmaceutical Analysis · Pharmacotherapeutics I · Hospital Pharmacy · Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence
Year 4
Pharmacotherapeutics II · Pharmaceutical Formulations · Biostatistics & Research Methodology · Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics
Year 5
Pharmacotherapeutics III · Clinical Pharmacy · Clinical Toxicology · Clinical Research · Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics
Year 6
Hospital internship (12 months) · Project work · Continuous case-based learning under preceptor
Where graduates go.
Clinical research & pharmacovigilance
Clinical trial coordination, drug-safety surveillance at CROs and pharma companies.
Higher studies & licensure abroad
Pathway to FPGEE / NAPLEX (US), OSPAP (UK) — with appropriate further licensure.
Affiliated hospitals.
Pharm.D students rotate through these tertiary-care hospitals from year three onward.
- MGM Hospital, Warangal
- Rohini Superspeciality Hospital
- Mamata General Hospital
- Vaagdevi Super Specialty Hospital
- Sri Sai Krishna Hospital
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