General Education
(17/03/2014)
Vietnam has witnessed the nearly 100 – year history of pharmaceutical training since the first department of pharmacy under Indochina Medical and Pharmaceutical School was established in 1914. Nowadays there are numbers of pharmaceutical facilities taking part in the Pharmacy Education in which Hanoi University of Pharmacy is the only specialized university in training pharmacists nationwide in Vietnam. During the last 55 years (1961- 2016), Hanoi University of Pharmacy has trained more than 15,000 pharmacists. Since 2006, the annual enrolment reached over 500 students for the regular pharmacist-training program. In the school-year of 2016-2017, there are 4,078 students of all types following HUP’s training programs (3,341 undergraduate and 737 graduate).
Hanoi University of Pharmacy aims to produce a pharmacist who “should be of good virtue, have acquired knowledge profound in fundamental sciences and solid in basic medico-pharmaceutical sciences, possess satisfactory command and essential skills on modern and national traditional medicines. With these, on one hand, he or she can give advice to the patient on rational and safe drug use and confer with a physician about the care and treatment of his/ her patient, and on the other hand, prepare and manufacture drugs in the health care network and in the community. He or she should be able to upgrade oneself by self-studying to meet the needs of the people in health care and protection”.
Currently it offers various types of training and programs, including PhD, Master, 1st-level specialized pharmacist, 2nd-level specialized pharmacist (graduate programs), 5-year regular pharmacist, 4-year irregular pharmacist, second-degree pharmacist, and 3-year junior pharmacist.
Besides, collaborative training programs (Mekong Trans-regional Master Program (Master of Pharmaceutical Science); Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology DU program; Pharmaceutics DU program) with the active participation of international lecturers have been also received high consideration from domestic and regional students.
Holding important position in Vietnam pharmaceutical education system, Hanoi University of Pharmacy is assigned to train the following fields:
The degree of Pharmacist (5 years)
Regular Pharmacist is trained to focus on five main orientations:
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Clinical pharmacy
- Pharmacognosy and traditional pharmacy
- Pharmacoeconomics and administration
- Drug quality control
Master of Science (2 years)
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutical biochemistry
- Pharmacognosy and traditional pharmacy
- Pharmacology and clinical pharmacy
- Drug quality control and toxicology
- Pharmaceutical Organization and administration
1st Level Specialized Pharmacist Programs (2 years).
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutical biochemistry
- Pharmacognosy and traditional pharmacy
- Pharmacology and clinical pharmacy
- Drug quality control and toxicology
- Pharmaceutical Organization and Administration
2nd Level Specialized Pharmacist Programs (2 years).
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Pharmaceutical biochemistry
- Pharmacognosy and traditional pharmacy
- Clinical pharmacy
- Drug quality control
- Pharmaceutical Organization and Administration
PhD Program (3 years)
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Pharmacognosy and traditional pharmacy
- Clinical pharmacy
- Drug quality control
- Pharmaceutical Organization and administration
By clicking the followings, you’ll find more detailed information about education activities currently provided in HUP:
University Calendar: This section offers information about calendars of all kinds of training in HUP.
Academic program: You can find the curricula of undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in this section.
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