Master degree program
Pharmacy

Pharmacy

QUALIFICATION

  • Profile direction - Master of Health Care

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
1. Identify, demonstrate developing knowledge and understanding of an interdisciplinary nature, describe and analyze professional information in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices in organizing the work of various pharmaceutical organizations in the production, control, registration and distribution of goods, and providing pharmaceutical assistance to the population and organizations using information and communication technologies.
2. Analyze and evaluate existing concepts, theories, interpret approaches to the analysis of processes and phenomena; introduce new approaches within the framework of their qualifications when consulting patients and doctors on the provision of pharmaceutical care, the rational use of medicines and medical devices, the conditions for their proper storage, the choice of dosage forms, the cost of therapy; demonstrate the ability to professionally solve the main tasks and systematize information on maintaining clinical and pharmaceutical documentation.
3. Apply knowledge on the organization, planning and control of the functioning of subjects in the health care system and the pharmaceutical industry, taking into account the requirements of regulatory documents and international good practices of GXP in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices to provide timely and high-quality pharmaceutical care to the population and medical organizations.
4. Analyze and understand the regulation of the organization, management and sale of medicinal products, the formation and rational use of inventory of pharmaceutical organizations for wholesale and retail sales to the population and organizations using innovative communication tools.
5. Generalize, analyze and differentiate General issues of clinical pharmacology and clinical and pharmacological characteristics of individual groups and drugs, clinical aspects of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; evaluation of drug use, pharmacovigilance issues (GVP), regulation of drug provision in medical institutions in compliance with the principles of rational pharmacotherapy for certain diseases.
6. Analyze and differentiate the regulatory and technical documentation of the process of manufacturing and manufacturing of medicines and medical devices; systematize, summarize research results and select the best methods and technologies for their production in accordance with the requirements of the GMP and GLP good manufacturing practice standard.
7. Identify active and related substances in natural raw materials, quality control of pharmaceutical substances, reference materials, excipients and materials, medicinal plant raw materials, as well as medicines and medical devices at all stages of collection, storage and technological process in accordance with current legislation and good GXP pharmaceutical practices, possession of modern physical, physico-chemical and chemical methods of their analysis.
8. Analyze, systematize and generalize the research goals and the selection of objects of chemical and Toxicological examination in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, form judgments when registering the results of the examination.
9. Demonstrate a commitment to the highest standards of professional responsibility and integrity; and adhere to ethical principles in all professional interactions with patients, families, colleagues, and society at large. Apply knowledge of the principles and methods of forming a healthy lifestyle of a person and family, a set of factors that determine health and disease for the purpose of prevention.
10. Demonstrate communication skills and learning skills, continuously improve professional knowledge and skills, demonstrate the formation of judgments and skills of scientific research, the desire to transfer knowledge to others.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Pharmacy
Speciality Code
7M10116
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Health

disciplines

Chemistry of synthetic medicines
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Professional competence for conducting analysis and research on organic chemistry of drugs and other substances; principles of creating new synthetic drugs; search for new effective drugs; determining the dependence of the pharmacological action of substances on their chemical structure, physical and physico-chemical properties; knowledge of the strategy for creating new synthetic drugs.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

Management
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: the formation of systematic knowledge about the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of management. The teaching of the discipline Management examines the theory and practice of management; the history of management, schools and modern management concepts; functions and methods of organization management; types of organizational structure; internal and external environment of the organization; models and methods of decision-making; planning methods; motivation and control, management styles and leadership theory.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research in Pharmacy (in eng)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Professional competence for analysis and research on classes, nomenclature, methods of obtaining and chemical properties of natural organic compounds; selection of optimal chemical technologies and technological operations of modern plant production of drugs; skills in using materials of the International Pharmacopoeia and other normative literature in the production of drugs.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research in Pharmacy
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Professional competence in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices for planning research and implementing the results obtained, practical skills in conducting research methods, accumulating research experience to ensure the safety, effectiveness and availability of drug therapy and the rational use of medicines and medical devices.

Proper control of manufacturing processes and laboratory preparation of drugs
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form professional competencies in the field of fundamental knowledge of the basic laws and methods of conducting biochemical and pharmaceutical research, followed by mathematical processing and analysis of research results related to the development of pharmaceutical processes, materials and equipment for obtaining medicines, validation of processes and equipment, development and validation of measurement methods.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Quality management in pharmaceutical organizations
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Organization of management and planning of activities of entities engaged in pharmaceutical activities in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of healthcare and Good Pharmacy Practice. Organization of examination of medicines using chemical, biological, physic-chemical and other methods. Readiness to organize quality control of medicines. The structure and management bodies of the pharmaceutical health sector and their functions.

Writing and protection of master project
  • Number of credits - 12
  • Type of control - Master Dissertation
  • Description -

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Chemistry and technology of biologically active substances from plant materials
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - State system of standardization of medicines. Development and approval of regulatory documentation for drug and medical plant. The main types of extraction. The main methods for isolating biologically active substances from medical plant. Ensuring quality control of medicines from MPC in accordance with the requirements of international standards. Organization of production control. Standardization of biologically active supplements.

Clinical and pharmacological aspects of the interaction of drugs with food and alcohol
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Conducting research on clinical and pharmacological aspects of drug interaction with food and alcohol to optimize drug therapy, reduce the frequency and severity of side effects of drugs; investigating the main patterns of interaction between food and drugs and developing recommendations for a rational combination of drugs and food that affect the results of treatment.

Concept, principles and functions of pharmaceutical distribution
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Legislation in the field of organization of pharmaceutical activities. Fundamentals of designing and optimizing the logistics chain of product distribution from the manufacturer to the end user of medicines. Rules for the formation of a commodity stock, organization of storage and preparation of an application for medicines in pharmacy organizations. Fundamentals of designing a distribution system on the example of pharmacy chains.

Counterfeit medicines and their regulation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Review of normative legal acts regulating the procedure for detection, withdrawal from circulation and destruction of falsified, substandard and counterfeit drugs. Determination of participants in the drug circulation system, their interaction. The procedure for informing the subjects of drug circulation about the identified counterfeit, substandard and counterfeit drugs. Carrying out procedures for the withdrawal from circulation of falsified, substandard and counterfeit drugs and their destruction.

Features of pharmaceutical logistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Understanding the importance and role of applying the logistics approach in pharmaceutical practice at the present stage of economic and management development, as a system of generalized knowledge about the scientific basis, concept, method, methodology of the logistics approach, and basic tasks. The concept and principles of logistics in pharmaceutical companies. Understanding of the features of the logistics approach in the management of a pharmaceutical enterprise, practical skills to solve them.

From nanoparticles to biomolecules
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course examines the fundamental physical and chemical properties of carbon nanomaterials and applications in pharmacy and medicine. The main classes of nanostructured carbon nanomaterials. Basic terms and concepts in the field of carbon nanomaterials in pharmacy and medicine. Basic principles and methods of obtaining carbon nanomaterials.

Fundamentals of Bionanotechnology in Pharmacy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course examines the main properties of nanomaterials and the principles underlying their creation and the prospects for the use of nanostructured materials for targeted drug delivery, the requirements and need for the development of new dosage forms, issues of their biosafety and biocompatibility.

Key Points of the Standard for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - A holistic understanding of the principles of the Standard for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) applicable to clinical trials. The quality assurance system and the rules for conducting human trials, as well as their documentation; work with the protocols of the commission on ethics and the presentation of research results in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Marketing Research in Pharmacy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form professional competencies based on the knowledge of the international code of procedure for marketing and social research in the pharmacy on marketing research methods in order to develop a set of marketing research taking into account the specifics of the pharmaceutical market for making scientifically based marketing decisions.

Organization of clinical and preclinical trials of medicines GLP, GCP
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - A holistic understanding of the principles of the Standard for (GCP, GLP) applicable to clinical and non clinical trials. The quality assurance system and the rules for conducting human trials, as well as their documentation; work with the protocols of the commission on ethics and the presentation of research results in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Proper control of manufacturing processes and laboratory preparation of drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form professional competencies in the field of fundamental knowledge of the basic laws and methods of conducting biochemical and pharmaceutical research, followed by mathematical processing and analysis of research results related to the development of pharmaceutical processes, materials and equipment for obtaining medicines, validation of processes and equipment, development and validation of measurement methods.

Quality management of medical care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation in students of the ability and willingness to implement effective technologies for managing the quality and availability of medical care based on modern approaches to overall quality management and international standards to carry out effective of medical services, contributing to the growth of public satisfaction with the medical care

Spectroscopic analysis of the drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of medicinal substances and drug, pharmacopoeial methods of their study. To study modern physical, chemical and physico-chemical methods used in pharmaceutical analysis in relation to the identification, determination of purity and quantitative determination of drugs and medicinal plant materials and biological objects. interpret the results of modern methods of pharmaceutical analysis of a given drug (IR, spectrophotometry, HPLC, NMR, GC-MS, mass spectrum, etc.)

Standardization of medicines and medical devices
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Goal - formation of professional competences and skills knowledge of the state system of standardization and certification of drugs; methods of pharmaceutical analysis in accordance with the requirements of normative-technical documents on control of quality and safety of drugs; possession of pharmaceutical analysis, drug quality control and MI phases of development, production, storage and application.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Production
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - TThe goal is to consolidate theoretical knowledge, acquire practical skills, competencies and professional experience in the specialty. As a result of industrial practice, undergraduates can study the specifics of the activities of enterprises, organizations and institutions of the relevant industry in order to form professional and work skills.

Professional
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Upon successful completion of this module, undergraduates should be able to: 1. to form and consolidate the necessary professional skills and competencies acquired during the course of professional practice; 2. to solve problems in academic and work environments; 3. critically evaluate the content of the research and professional activities of organizations and enterprises where the undergraduate student practices; 4. create, develop and combine an important research process with educational activities; 5. to use in professional activity profound knowledge in the field of management and to carry out a critical analysis of the state of modern research in this field. 6. develop system skills related to solving economic problems, critical assessment of statistical data and making effective management decisions in the field of management. 7. perform a master's project, which requires in-depth practical and theoretical knowledge, providing a result aimed at improving the efficiency and competitiveness of the company and solving the research goal. 8. conduct a study of the external and internal environment of the enterprise, work out the development strategy of the company, analyze the main factors shaping the dynamics of consumer demand for the company's products;

Data for 2021-2024 years