From the second year, Pharmacy courses are offered in the Faculty of Health Sciences. In this respect Wits is unique since it provides interaction with medical students, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurses - future health professionals with whom successful team work is essential. The second year subjects are more medically and pharmaceutically oriented. The subjects include Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacy Practice. Pharmacy Practice involves teaching the practical applications, legal and ethical aspects, marketing and business skills.
Chemistry is divided into two components - organic and analytical.
Clinical subjects include Pathology which is the study of disease in the body and its organs. Medical Microbiology covers bacterial, viral and parasitic infections and their respective treatments. Pharmacology also begins in third year. It deals with individual drugs, their mechanisms of action, beneficial and adverse effects. Pharmacology in third and fourth year provides the student with specific drug related information which makes the pharmacist unique from other health care professionals.