School:Pharmacy

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Pharmacy is a science and profession concerned with the safe and efficacious use of medication. Traditionally, pharmacists have compounded and dispensed medications on the orders of physicians. More recently, pharmacy has come to include other services related to patient care including clinical practice, medication therapy management, drug information, and poison control. Pharmacists are not just experts on drugs but the authority on drug use.

The duty of a pharmacist is to check the drug that is being given to patient or that is being produced in a pharmaceutical industry. The main purpose of their practice is to ensure the health of the patient by counseling the patient and guaranteeing that the right medication is dispensed.

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The discipline of pharmacy is divided into four main branches

1. Pharmaceutics

Pharmaceutics is the branch which deals with the presentation of drug or medicine in a suitable form which are also called Dosage forms and check the actions of drugs in a body.

2. Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical Chemistry deals in the chemistry of drugs, physical properties and nature of drugs.

  • Pharmacology

Pharmacology works with the action of the drugs in the body.


  • Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is the mother of pharmacy. It deals with the extraction of drugs from natural resources i.e from animals to minerals and plants to microorganisms.

3. Pharmacy practice

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