AICTE planning to introduce integrated 5&1/2 year Pharmacy Course
In an Notification released by Pharmacy Council of india (PCI) on 24th July 2012 it is stated that AICTE is going to introduce a 5&1/2 year integrated course which leads to award of 4 years Bachelor Degree and Master of management (in respective discipline) after 5& 1/2 years which include 6-months internship.
All we got for now is this notification from AICTE to Approved Colleges already running B.Pharm course.AICTE doesn’t mention any time frame for introduction of this course.But it can be guessed that this course might be intrdouced by next academic year 2013-14 to the earliest (may also take a couple of years sometime because of late process in our country).And the process of Approving new colleges for offering this course might take a long time at this stretch.Students who have passed 10+2 (with physics and chemistry) and Students who have already completed Diploma in Pharmacy(D.Pharm) might be qualified for this new “integrated Pharmacy Course”.
That’s all for now and we will surely report in our site as soon as we get to know more about “Integrated Pharmacy Course”.Pharma Dost was one of the very few sites which provided info when Pharm.D course was introduced in 2008 and now About “integrated Pharmacy course” .. we will continue to do so .. Do keep checking “Pharma Dost“ – For Pharmacy Students and Aspirants !
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