Chitkara University (CU), Patiala

The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) program at Chitkara University will prepare students to provide high-quality pharmaceutical care that has the patient as its focus, and optimal drug therapy and health as its goal. The program stresses knowledge of the chemical, biological, social and clinical sciences that underline Pharmacy, an understanding of the relevance of that knowledge to patient care and the skills to apply that knowledge to specific care circumstances.

Pharm.D program is a post-graduate Professional Doctoral Degree. It was introduced to improve clinical and hospital Pharmacy services in India and is the only Pharmacy service which is in direct contact with the patient healthcare system and authorized to take critical decisions in in-patient prescription. The Pharm.D Degree requires five years of classroom and hospital-based didactic study. This is followed by one year of Internship Training in a hospital setting for Clinical Management of in-patients, in addition to ongoing practicals and a research project.