Degree in Pharmacy

General Competences

• Develop communication and information skills, both oral and written, to deal with patients and users of the center where you carry out your professional activity. Promote work and collaboration skills in multidisciplinary teams and those related to other health professionals.
• Recognize one's own limitations and the need to maintain and update professional competence, paying special importance to self-learning of new knowledge based on available scientific evidence.

Specific Competencies

• Identify, design, obtain, analyze, control and produce drugs and medicines, as well as other products and raw materials of health interest for human or veterinary use.
• Evaluate the therapeutic and toxic effects of substances with pharmacological activity.
• Know how to apply the scientific method and acquire skills in the management of legislation, sources of information, bibliography, development of protocols and other aspects that are considered necessary for the design and critical evaluation of preclinical and clinical trials.
• Design, prepare, supply and dispense medications and other products of health interest.
• Provide therapeutic advice in pharmacotherapy and diet therapy, as well as in the nutritional and food field in the establishments in which they provide services.
• Promote the rational use of medicines and health products, as well as acquire basic knowledge in clinical management, health economics and efficient use of health resources.
• Identify, evaluate and assess problems related to drugs and medications, as well as participate in pharmacovigilance activities.
• Carry out clinical and social pharmacy activities, following the pharmaceutical care cycle.
• Intervene in health promotion and disease prevention activities at the individual, family and community levels; with a comprehensive and multiprofessional vision of the health-disease process.
• Design, apply and evaluate reagents, methods and clinical analytical techniques, knowing the basic foundations of clinical analyzes and the characteristics and contents of laboratory diagnostic reports.
• Evaluate the toxicological effects of substances and design and apply the corresponding tests and analyses.
• Develop hygienic-sanitary analyses, especially those related to food and the environment.
• Know the ethical and deontological principles according to the legislative, regulatory and administrative provisions that govern professional practice, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing social context.

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Professional outings

Royal Decree 1837/2008, of November 8, establishes the basic training necessary to access the professional practice of pharmacist and in article 61 it includes activities related to the profession of pharmacist.

Pharmacy graduates can develop their profession in the following fields:

Clinical Analysis:

• Public Sector: Administration Laboratories, Hospitals, Town Halls and Faculties
• Private: Laboratories, Clinics, Hospitals and Pharmacy Offices

Community Pharmacy:

• Owner Technical Director
• Co-owner Technical Director
• Deputy, substitute, regent

Colleges and General Council of Schools:

• Administration Technicians
• Laboratory technicians
• Drug Information Center
• Pharmaceutical Care Technicians

Optics and Audiometry:

• Private sector: own or foreign account

Medicinal plants:

• Private sector: own or foreign account

Dermopharmacy:

• Laboratories
• Pharmacy Offices

Professional Press:

• Directors and editors.

Hospital pharmacy:

• Public Sector: Hospitals and Primary Care Centers.
• Private Sector: Hospitals, Clinics and Pharmaceutical Industry

Toxicology:

• Public sector: Ministry of Justice, Health and Consumer Affairs
• City Councils
• Private sector: Laboratories

Industry:

• Technical director
• Director and Control Technician
• Director and Quality Control Technician
• Production Director and Technician
• Research and development technician
• Registration Technician
• Purchase planning technician
• Marketing (Market analysis, product manager, sales representative or technical drug informant)

Environment:

• Laboratories
• Administration
• Companies (ecotoxicology)