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Pharmacy graduates have a wide array of career options and as a result there has been a huge demand for the admissions to Bachelor of Pharmacy (B Pharm) course in India. The career options after completing B Pharm or Masters in Pharmacy (M Pharm) are: Teaching, Pharmacists, Medical Transcriptionists, Quality Assurance Managers, Analytical Chemists, Sales and Marketing Managers, Data Managers, Drug Regulatory Managers, Scientists, Healthcare Professionals, Retailers. The education imparted to the pharmacy graduates should be such that the students can take up the assignments in the industry, hospitals etc.

At the MET Institute of Pharmacy our emphasis has been to impart quality education that is useful for higher education such as M.S., Ph.D. The various subjects taught at the undergraduate B Pharm four year course of University of Mumbai include the subjects like Industrial Sociology and Psychology, Industry Management which help them to join production units in the industry.

Subjects like Drug Store Management, Hospital Pharmacy make them suitable candidates to join Hospitals as Community Pharmacists or he/she can start his own retail store. The subject such as Pharmacology Biopharmaceutics helps the students to gain knowledge to enter into clinical research organisations. The subject of Forensic Pharmacy gives some insight to the regulatory affairs which is of paramount importance in clinical organisations. Quality control is being taught in the subject of Pharmaceutics. Formulation development is a part of research wing of the pharmaceutical industries and the students get insight into formulations development through the subject of pharmaceutics. Through the subject of Physical Pharmacy the students can calculate the 'shelf life' of a product and design experiments to study the same. The topics such as Radiopharmaceutical and Radio Immuno Assay give fairly good knowledge of the radiation hazards and students have the career opportunity in the atomic energy establishment. The knowledge of Radio Immuno Assay Elisa Technique covered in the subject of Pharmaceutical Analysis help the students to grasp the technique quickly when they join the Hospitals and take up the practical work.

Microbiology laboratory is a must for most of the industrial set up. Although the subject of microbiology is included in the B. Pharm syllabus, the depth of knowledge is not up to the expectations of pharmaceutical industries. The students should be given more laboratory work in the subjects and make them experts in handling the microbial cultures. The importance of Pharmaceutical Engineering subject cannot be overlooked as it helps the students to understand the factory layout and the important industrial units such as generators, boilers and their working.

The synthesis of organic compounds is included in the subject of pharmaceutical chemistry and helps the student to join R & D of any industry and can synthesise new drug molecules. The subject of Instrumental Methods of Analysis is extremely important in the quality control laboratories. The validations of methods F - Test, T - Test are taught in the subject of Statistics. The Process Analytical Techniques (PAT) should be included in the syllabus. A leading analytical technique for PAT is NIR (Near Infra Red) Spectroscopy).

NIR is fast, non - destructive and hence is ideal technique. The advance technique F & T - NIR is also a technique of choice. The B. Pharm syllabus may be accordingly updated. Process monitoring and process control using analytical techniques has been long established in various industries to improve yields, quality and efficiency.

Example of PAT: In Tablet Manufacturing Process -

• Raw Material Characterisation
• Dryer Control
• Blender Control
• Tablet Analysis

At the end of Third year of B. Pharm. the students have to complete in plant training for about six weeks which gives them good exposure to industrial set up.

At MET we encourage the students to participate in the research projects which we present at the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress etc.

This gives students the exposure to research activity and they know the importance of literature survey.