BACHELOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

The program has a mandatory pre-medical Spanish proficiency course for non-Spanish speaking students unless showing the mastery of the Spanish language, demonstrated through a proficiency test (oral and written) at a price of 75.00 USD which is not included in the price of any of the under-grade careers.

The purpose of the course is to arm the student with deep knowledge of the Spanish language and all relevant vocabulary related to Biomedical Sciences. It also prepares students in the development of the teaching process including evaluations.

Non-Spanish speaking Student:

The program’s duration is 5 years. It includes 1 year of Spanish pre-med training in addition to the standard 4-year degree program.

Total cost of the program, including premedical and Spanish language courses, is 43,590.00 USD and is divided as follows:

Accommodation in CubaHeal students’ residence for the 1st year of Spanish Pre-med program is included.

Spanish speaking Student:

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Important Notices:

All non-Spanish speaking students are required to enroll in a 1-year pre-med program intended to deepen students’ knowledge of the Spanish language related to Biomedical Sciences and also to train the students in the development of the teaching process.
Upon submitting your application, it will be recorded in a database and is only valid for the academic year in which it was requested. Otherwise, if you do not attend in that period, you must make a new formal request.

The above prices include the following:

Enrollment
Right of attendance to all practical and theoretical teaching activities
Right to all the exams including the final state examination.
Marks certification.
Title duly legalized by the University of Medical Sciences where the student has attended studies at the end of the program.
Use of library services during the studies.
Access to sport and cultural areas of the University of Medical Sciences
Participation in its various manifestations and scientific advisory for research works.

The above prices do not include the following:

Accommodation for year 2^nd – 4^th year
Meals (unless indicated otherwise)
Learning materials
National or international transportation
Telephone services and/or internet services
Books
Printing
Immigration procedures in Cuba
Change of migratory status
Identity document for year 1^st – 6^th year
Translations and legalization at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or embassies
Health insurance or medical care
Paperwork and transfer of the deceased in case of death.

Faculty: Institute of Pharmacy and Food (IFAL)

Career: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Qualification: Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Certification: Excellence (National Accreditation Board)

Modality: Daytime, Face-to-face (4 years). Course by Encounters-Blended (4 years)

Work object

The pharmacist’s object of work includes drugs, supplements, cosmetics and diagnostics, as well as complex matrices that interact with the living organism and the environment.

To clarify this general concept, it is valid to point out that the pharmacist obtains and characterizes substances of therapeutic interest, whether synthetic or of natural origin, designs and develops medicines in different pharmaceutical forms and establishes the systems of quality assurance so that it satisfies the internationally established standards in the most economical way and without affecting the environment; evaluates the pharmacological action through preclinical and clinical studies, its biodistribution, toxicity and its rational use.

It works directly linked to the Health Services and is an integral part of primary health care, as it is closely linked with the doctor and the patient, manages the Health Unit and is the maximum responsible for the dispensing of the medicine.

Modes of action

The Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences is a graduate of broad profile. A professional who must contribute to the socioeconomic development of the country and the improvement of health through his/ her activity in pharmaceutical services and in the design, development, production and control of medicines, supplements, diagnostics and cosmetics. To do this, they must apply and integrate the knowledge acquired during their university studies, as well as the new ones generated from scientific-technical development, through basic and applied scientific research. All this must be done responsibly with society and the environment, attending to the principles of professional ethics and interacting with other professionals in multidisciplinary work teams.

The Career is based on the study of basic subjects, mainly in the first two years, which serve as a theoretical basis for specialty subjects. The upper years are characterized by a solid and comprehensive training in the theoretical aspects of the different subjects that comprise the specialty and a wide practical activity for the formation of skills in the future graduate, which are complemented by the integrating subject of the career: Pharmaceutical Labor Practice, in which students receive professional training in Dispensary Pharmacies, Hospitals, Pharmaceutical Industry and Research Centers. The studies culminate, with the Defense of a Diploma Work, experimental.

The Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences is qualified to perform among others the following functions:

Program, direct and execute the technical and organizational tasks of the Community and Hospital Pharmaceutical Services and pharmaceutical production.
Participate in research, teaching, development, production and services.
Obtain and characterize active ingredients and other products of pharmaceutical interest, through chemical synthesis, biotechnology and / or isolation from natural sources.
Design, develop and consistently produce medicines, supplements, cosmetics and diagnostics at both the dispensary and industrial levels.
Manage, ensure and control the quality of medicines, supplements, cosmetics and diagnostics during the processes of preparation, release, storage, distribution and dispensing.
Evaluate from the pharmacological, biopharmaceutical and toxicological point of view medicines and other products of pharmaceutical interest through preclinical and clinical studies.
Participate in scientific- technical information and/or commercialization tasks, related to their fields of action.
Schedule and execute the own tasks to guarantee the supply of medicines in situations of natural disasters.
Provide patient-oriented pharmaceutical services related to drug-therapeutic follow-up and the rational use of medications.
Ensure compliance with the current regulatory framework, through its participation in state pharmaceutical inspections, the sanitary authorization of new products and their surveillance in the market.

Professional model:

Areas of action

The pharmacist can develop his functions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, in the cosmetics industry, in the control of medicines and the pharmacological evaluation of their action, interacting in multidisciplinary teams with other professionals.

Fields of action

The essence of the pharmacist’s object of work derives from his fields of action in: biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacological sciences, pharmaceutical biotechnology, social pharmacy and education.

An exclusive field of action of the pharmacist is the Pharmaceutical Services: Community and Hospital, since he is the only professional with the training required to be able to interact with the other members of the health team, as the maximum responsible for the medicine.

Due to their solid and comprehensive training, and the high development of health services, the pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology industry fundamentally, there is currently a high demand for these professionals. His participation in research and teaching groups stands out.

CAREER: PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

TYPE OF COURSE: DAY TIME COURSE

DURATION OF THE DEGREE: 4 YEARS

No	DISCIPLINE AND SUBJECT	QTY. HOURS			DIST. BY YEARS		DIST. OF HOURS PER YEAR ACAD.
		TOTAL	CLASS	PRACT. LAB. E INVEST.	EXAMINATION END OF ASIGN.	TROT. OF COURSE	1	2	3	4
1	MARXISM – LENINISM	150	150
1.1	Philosophy and Society	32	32				32
1.2	Economics	54	54				54
1.3	Sociopolitical theory	32	32						32
1.4	Social Problems of Science and Technology	32	32							32
2	HISTORY OF CUBA	50	50
2.1	History of Cuba	50	50	1			50
3	PREPARATION FOR THE DEFENSE	68	68
3.1	National Security and Defense	68	68					68
4	PHYSICAL EDUCATION	112	112
4.1	Physical Education I	28	28				28
4.2	Physical Education II	28	28				28
4.3	Physical Education III	28	28					28
4.4	Physical Education IV	28	28					28
4	MATHEMATICS	210	210
4.1	Mathematics I	80	80		1		80
4.2	Mathematics II	80	80		1		80
4.3	Biostatistics	50	50			1	50
5	PHYSICS	136	136
5.1	Physics I	67	67		1		67
5.2	Physics II	69	69		1			69
6	CHEMISTRY	243	243
6.1	General Chemistry	128	128		1		128
6.2	Physical Chemistry I	55	55		1			55
6.3	Physical Chemistry II	60	60					60
7	PREPARATION FOR THE DEFENSE	68	68
7.1	National Security and Defense	68	68				68
8	BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES	220	220
8.1	Cell biology	40	40				40
8.2	Biochemistry	80	80		1			80
8.3	Anatomy and physiology I	50	50					50
8.4	Anatomy and physiology II	50	50		1			50
9	PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY	227	227
9.1	Pharmaceutical Technology I	55	55					55
9.2	Pharmaceutical Technology II	80	80		1				80
9.3	Pharmaceutical Technology III	92	92						92
10	PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS	200	200
10.1	Pharmaceutical Chemical Analysis	60	60					60
10.2	Pharmaceutical Instrumental Analysis	60	60		1			60
10.3	Biopharmaceutical control and analysis	80	80						80
11	PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES	206	206
11.1	Pharmacology I	46	46		1				46
11.2	Pharmacology II	48	48		1				48
11.3	Biofarmacia	64	64							64
11.4	Toxicology	48	48		1					48
12	PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY	240	240
12.1	Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry I	80	80		1		80
12.2	Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry II	80	80		1			80
12.3	Medicinal Chemistry	80	80						80
13	SOCIAL PHARMACY	62	62
13.1	Pharmaceutical Services	62	62			1		62
14	MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY	106	106
14.1	Microbiology	64	64						64
14.2	Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	42	42						42
15	LABOR PRACTICE PHARMACIST	534	30	504
15.1	Introduction to Science Pharmaceutical	32		32		1	32
15.2	Community Pharmacy	32		32		1		32
15.3	Good manufacturing practices	20	10	10		1			20
15.4	Clinical and hospital pharmacy	120		120		1				120
15.5	Research methodology	30	10	20		1				30
15.6	Diploma Thesis	300		300						300
TOTAL CURRICULUM HOURS BASE BY FORM AND YEAR		2652	2148	504			761	713	584	594
TOTAL FINAL EXAMS OF THE BASE CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		15					6	5	3	1
TOTAL COURSEWORK OF THE BASE CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		7					2	2	1	2
OWN CURRICULUM
10	PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS	40	40
10.1	Quality in the pharmaceutical industry	40	40						40
11	PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES	30	30
11.1	Pharmacotherapeutics	30	30			1				30
12	MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY	110	110
12.1	Pharmaceutical Structural Analysis	50	50			1		50	0	0
12.2	Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products	60	60			1			60
13	SOCIAL PHARMACY	112	112
13.1	Drug logistics and pharmacoepidemiology	64	64							64
13.2	Pharmaceutical Care	48	48			1				48
14	MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY	48	48
14.1	Immunology	48	48						48
15	LABOR PRACTICE PHARMACIST	140		140
15.1	Production of medicines	140		140		1			140
TOTAL CURRICULUM HOURS OWN BY FORM AND YEAR		480	340				0	50	288	142
TOTAL NUMBER OF FINAL EXAMS OF THE OWN CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		0			0		0	0	0	0
TOTAL COURSEWORK OF THE OWN CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		5					0	1	2	2
ELECTIVE AND ELECTIVE CURRICULUM
16	SUBJECTS	180	180
16.1	Elective 1/ Elective	32	32				32
16.2	Elective 2	32	32							32
16.3	Elective 3	32	32							32
16.4	Optional 4	32	32							32
16.5	Elective 5	32	32							32
16.6	Elective 6	32	32							32
TOTAL CURRICULUM HOURS OPTIONAL AND ELECTIVE BY FORM AND YEAR		192	192				32	0	0	160
TOTAL FINAL EXAMS OF THE ELECTIVE AND ELECTIVE CURRICULUM
TOTAL COURSEWORK OF THE ELECTIVE AND ELECTIVE CURRICULUM
TOTAL
TOTAL CURRICULUM HOURS BY FORM AND YEAR		3324	2680	644			793	763	872	896
TOTAL FINAL EXAMS OF THE CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		15					6	5	3	1
TOTAL COURSEWORK IN THE CURRICULUM AND PER YEAR		12					2	3	3	4

NOTE: To be entitled to the completion of studies, the student must have passed the English Language requirement at a B1+ level. A ratio of one hour of independent study must be achieved for at least one hour of class.
OBSERVATIONS: This official document is an integral part of the Study Plan of the career, as well as the model of the professional and the programs of the disciplines. The type of completion of studies is Diploma Work.

Prior to the student’s arrival:

Ensure adequate accommodation in or near the school.
Keep constant line of communication with the university’s administration to confirm seat reservation.
Arranging for airport pickup

Upon the Student’s Arrival:

Airport pickup
An orientation session to familiarize the student with:
- CubaHeal team.
- local transportation.
- Other aspects relating to and city’s facilities as well as relevant immigration and legal laws that must be adhered to in the Republic of Cuba.
Establishment of bank
Stand as a permanent point of reference for the student should a need arises.
Stand as a permanent point of reference to the student’s relatives overseas should the need arises.

For students interested in the above program, kindly note the following:

Click on and fill out STUDENT APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION INTO A MEDICAL PROGRAM form;

CubaHeal requests an initial deposit of CA $ 135.00 for the submission of all university admittance forms. To that end, please be aware of the following:

Should the Cuban Academic Services Authorities (CASA) approve a student, and should the student agree to the enrollment’s terms and conditions, the initial deposit will be deducted from the total cost of the 1^st year of the program.
Should the Cuban Academic Services Authorities (CASA) refuse the enrollment of a student, CubaHeal will refund the full amount less any applicable transfer fees.
Should the student reject the educational program proposed by the Cuban Academic Services Authorities (CASA), CubaHeal reserves the right to retain the deposit and treat it as a consultation fee.

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BACHELOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Non-Spanish speaking Student:

Spanish speaking Student:

Important Notices:

The above prices include the following:

The above prices do not include the following:

SUMMARY OF THE MEDICAL DEGREE CURRICULUM:

Professional model:

TEACHING PROCESS PLAN

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