About the Faculty of Pharmacy

Fully Accredited – MQA/FA/3618

The Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours programme commenced towards the end of 2015 upon approval by the Pharmacy Board of Malaysia and the Malaysian Qualifications Agency.  In 2024,  the programme has been reaccredited with an overall rating of 95.6%.

Upon getting relevant feedback from stakeholders from community pharmacies, hospital/clinical pharmacies  and the pharmaceutical industry, the faculty decided on the tagline of Real World Holistic Pharmacy Education to guide the teaching and learning focus of pharmacy undergraduates. The objective is to ensure that graduates seamlessly transition into the working world.

To align with the tagline, practical aspects have been augmented—such as an on-campus Ministry of Health-licensed community pharmacy, industry-scale pharmaceutical production pilot plant and linkages with senior citizen homes for clinical pharmacy practice. Experiential learning in these areas are embedded into the curriculum, in addition to 20 weeks of attachment training to Community Pharmacies, Pharmaceutical Industry and Hospital/Clinical Pharmacy.  Attention is given to the flow of conduct of courses so that students have studied relevant courses before going for the attachment.

The whole programme ends with an eight-week hospital, for training in hospital and clinical pharmacy practice.

To enrich teaching and learning in Clinical Pharmacy,  practicing clinical pharmacists from government hospitals are appointed as adjunct lecturers to conduct case studies and tutorials. Many of our full-time lecturers have both academic and practice experience—with over 70% possessing PhDs.

A specialised process-driven problem-based learning pedagogy has been developed to instil student-driven learning as well as development of soft-skills, presentation skills, confidence building and a life-long learning mindset.

The faculty,  taking note that pharmacists in the hospital are involved in direct patient services as well as collaborative practice with the medical profession, ensures that the graduates are well-versed in basic medical sciences in the areas of anatomy, physiology, pathology, biochemistry, immunology and microbiology and these courses are conducted by experts from the Faculty of Medicine.

Graduates are practising in various areas i.e. private hospitals, government hospitals, community pharmacies and industrial pharmacy.

Recently, the Faculty of Pharmacy was invited and accepted as  a founding member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) – United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Centre for Excellence in the Western Pacific Region.

Professor Datuk Dr. Allan Mathews

Dean