Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

Field(s) of education and training (ISCED-F)

• Pharmacy (0916)

Main focus

Studies leading to the official Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy are designed to enable students not only to acquire and apply knowledge, but also to attain the professional competences and skills that qualify them to practice the profession of Pharmacist, in accordance with Order CIN/2137/2008 (3 July 2008). Pharmacy graduates may work in initiatives related to the preparation, storage and dispensing of medicines, collaborate in analytical processes, pharmacotherapeutics and public health surveillance, and take on research and teaching responsibilities.

Competences

1. Identify, design, analyse, verify, and prepare pharmaceuticals and medicines, in addition to other health products and raw materials for human or veterinary use.
2. Evaluate the therapeutic and toxic effects of pharmacologically-active substances.
3. Acquire skills in the use of legislation, sources of information, development of protocols, and other areas vital to the design of preclinical and clinical trials.
4. Design, prepare, supply, and dispense medicines and other health products.
5. Provide counselling in pharmacotherapy and diet therapy, as well as in the nutrition and food fields.
6. Promote the rational use of medicines and health products, and acquire basic knowledge of clinical management.
7. Identify, evaluate, and assess problems related to pharmaceuticals and medicines, and participate in pharmacovigilance initiatives.
8. Facilitate clinical pharmacy, and pharmaceutical care activities.
9. Participate in individual-, family- and community-based health promotion and disease prevention endeavours.
10. Design, implement, and evaluate reagents and clinical analytical techniques and methods by learning the fundamentals of clinical analysis and the characteristics and content of diagnostic laboratory opinions.
11. Evaluate the toxicological effects of substances, and design, and use appropriate tests and analyses.
12. Perform hygiene and sanitation analyses particularly in regard to food and the environment.
13. Be familiar with the ethical and deontological principles in regulations governing professional conduct.

Name of title awarded in original language

Graduado o Graduada en Farmacia por la Universidad de Granada

Qualification requirements

– The student must prove the level B1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (60 ECTS)
Obligatory (204 ECTS)
Optional (30 ECTS)
Practicum (24 ECTS)
Final degree project (6 ECTS)

Access to a regulated profession

Professional Status Pharmacist

Applicable regulations The profession of pharmacist is regulated in the Resolution by the Spanish Council of Ministers of 8 February 2008 (published in the Official Spanish Gazette, dated 27 February 2008) Order CIN/2137/2008, dated 3 July, establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that license graduates to practice the profession of pharmacist.

Admission information

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university studyprogrammes.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.

Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education Systemregulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

Grading scale
In the Spanish university system, modules/courses are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 points with the following qualitative equivalence:
0-4,9: «suspenso»; 5-6,9: «aprobado»; 7-8,9: «notable»; 9-10: «sobresaliente». A special mention, «Matrícula de Honor» may be granted to up to 5% of the students in a group provided they have got a «sobresaliente». To pass a module/course is necessary to get at least 5 points.
In cases of recognition of ECTS, professional experience, cultural or sports activities, or student representation no grading will be recorded but, where appropriate, the word «Apto».

UGR Examination Regulations
https://docencia.ugr.es/sites/vic/docencia/public/inline-files/Normativa_de_evaluacion_y_calificacion_EN.pdf

More info on academic regulations at: 

https://ugrcat.ugr.es/en/about-ugr/#regulations