Quality management aspects of pharmacy colleges in India

Abstract

In the past two decades, pharmaceutical study in India has changed dramatically. The Portuguese established India's earliest pharmacy college in Goa in 1842, and it was the first of its kind in Asia. It was founded in 1932 by Professor Mahadev Lal Schroff (considered the father of Pharmacy Education system in India) at Banaras Hindu University. Since then, the landscape has shifted dramatically, with the number of pharmacy schools springing up all across the nation in response to the growing need. In the past, pharmacy education in India was heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical business and its products. Graduate pharmacists in developing countries choose employment in the pharmaceutical sector, which contrasts with the position in affluent countries. It takes just two years and three months of pharmacy schooling in India to get the right to work as a pharmacist. A large portion of pharmacy practise is conducted by these diploma-trained pharmacists. There hasn't been much focus on the pharmaceutical practise curriculum. More Indian colleges and universities are beginning to provide pharmacy degrees at all levels, including a doctor of pharmacy degree that is focused on practise rather than theory. In 2008, several private colleges and universities began providing a Pharm.