Master degree program
Pharmacy

Pharmacy

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Medical Sciences

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
7M10117
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Health

disciplines

Drug delivery systems
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Fundamentals and principles underlying modern drug delivery systems. Drug delivery systems: principles of design and operation. Physiological and physical aspects of the action of drugs and biomolecules. Prolonged action: technological, physiological, chemical and physical approaches

Epidemiology
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Preventive medicine that studies the causes and characteristics of disease in society, the topics and methodology of research: infectious and non-infectious diseases, methods of epidemiology to solve health problems; the application of ethical aspects of epidemiological research; epidemiological aspects of screening, causation in epidemiology; assessment of the impact of risk factors on the development of the disease; evaluation of health institutions and programs, conclusion on the search for medical information from reliable sources and resources.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research in Pharmacy (in eng)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • 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.

Pedagogy of Higher education
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. Basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.

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.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Biopreparation manufacturing technology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Professional competence and skills of manufacturing, quality assessment and standardization of biologics in industrial production; implementation of technological processes in the production and manufacture of biologics; regulatory documentation regulating the production and quality of biologics in pharmacies and pharmaceutical enterprises.

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.

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.

Development of a drug registration dossier
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Keeping records of data on the manufacture of medicines. keep records of quality control data for finished drugs in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of healthcare and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Pharmaceutical technology in the field of pharmaceutical development and standardization of dosage forms. Ability to interpret and evaluate the results of drug quality control.

Ensuring pharmaceutical care of the population
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - learn the basic provisions and requirements of Good Pharmaceutical Practice (GPP), clinical symptoms of conditions in which self-treatment is acceptable, basic principles methodology of pharmaceutical care during non-prescription drug dispensing means, the basic principles of individualization of drug therapy during the holiday over-the-counter medicines

Ensuring rational pharmacotherapy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Fundamentals of pharmacotherapy in the clinic cardiovascular diseases, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics main groups of drugs, complications caused by the use drugs, methods of their correction; organization of monitoring of side effects and undesirable effects of medicines, cases of absence therapeutic effect in the Republic of Kazakhstan

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.

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.

Nanopharmacy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - “Nanopharmacy” is designed to teach students the skills they will need to understand the burgeoning technological advances in science at the nanoscale and how new nanomaterials and processes can be applied to drug delivery, diagnostics, treatment monitoring, tissue regeneration, personalized medicine and more.

Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course examines the reasons for the change in the physical and chemical properties of a substance in the nanoscale range. The main classes of nanoscale structures. Quantum nanostructures of various dimensions: 0D-, 1D-, 2D-structures. Carbon nanostructures - fullerenes and nanotubes. Basic principles of the formation of nanosystems. Explain the main areas of application of nanotechnology in pharmacy. To solve theoretical and practical problems of technologies for creating medicines.

Nanotoxicology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Possible adverse health effects. Sources and main routes of entry of nanoparticles into the human body Toxicity features of a number of nanoparticles used in biomedical research. Vulnerable subgroups. Know the environmental aspects of nanotoxicology, specific hazards and risks from nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. Be able to link the development of nanotechnology with environmental protection

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

Safety of medicines and pharmacovigilance
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Professional competences on the principles of pharmacovigilance practice and other harmonized guidelines in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices for conducting studies to assess the benefit-risk ratio; knowledge of methods for monitoring their safety and documenting pharmacovigilance operations.

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.)

Strategic Management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: the acquisition and improvement of competencies in the theoretical and practical foundations of the strategic management of a medical organization; In the course of studying the course, the undergraduate will be able to: determine the strategy of the organization, apply the tools and methods of critical analysis in solving managerial problems; plan, control activities aimed at improving the availability, quality and efficiency of the health care production system.

The concept of drug quality assurance
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - “The concept of ensuring the quality of medicines” studies the existing problems of this sector of the economy by strengthening state regulation of the market for the circulation of medicines, further development of the domestic pharmaceutical and medical industry, to ensure access to safe, effective and high-quality medicines, to balance the interests of all participants in the pharmaceutical market: consumers, the state, entrepreneurs engaged in pharmaceutical business.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years