Pharmaceutical Careers
Carreiras Farmacêuticas
Course code:9494117
Patrícia Maria Cavaco Silva de Sá Montez
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
Pharmaceutical Careers aims in the theoretical component to provide the student the knowledge of the evolution of the career in pharmaceutical sciences and contribute to his training beginning with the awareness of the science and the pharmacy metier development, from antiquity to the present. It also aims to provide the framework of the profession today and the different strands of the same exercise with testimonials from recognized professionals in various areas of intervention. Thus the student will get an insight into the different roles and job areas where he can come to exert its activity in pharmaceutical sciences in the near future.
The student must have ability to focus, organization, management of information, ability to interpret, analyse and discuss issues individually and as a team, ability to critique and recognition of professional and social implications and responsibilities. Should still be capable of planning and decision.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Profession.
- Past, present and future.
- Contemporary activity of the pharmacist in Portugal.
- Pharmaceutical act.
- Community pharmacy.
- Hospital Pharmacy.
- Pharmaceutical Industry.
- Pharmaceutical distribution.
- Pharmaceutical analysts.
- University pharmaceutical research.
- Applied research in pharmaceutical professional activity.
- Professional training.
- Political and administrative intervention.
- Other.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Aguiar AH (2012) Farmacêuticos 2020 – Os desafios da próxima década. Edições Hollyfar. ISBN: 978.989.96318-2-3
- Basso MP (2000) Farmácia Portuguesa. Lisboa, Associação Nacional de Farmácias.
- Basso MP (2004) A Farmácia e o Medicamento. 1st ed., Clube do Coleccionador dos Correios.
- Dias JPS (1994) A Farmácia em Portugal. Uma introdução à sua História. 1338-1938. Lisboa: Associação Nacional das Farmácias/INAPA.
- Pitta JR (2007) História da Farmácia. Edições Minerva Coimbra. ISBN: 9789728318390.