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. Pharmacotherapy relates the areas of medicine, surgery, neurology, paediatrics, gynaecology and orthopaedics to treatment with drugs. It helps pharmacists recognise various disease symptoms to initiate treatment when possible and advise doctors or nurses on the appropriateness of drug therapy. In fourth year, business and marketing aspects are covered in Pharmacy Practice.