Pharmacy

About the Faculty

Since the opening of the Faculty, graduates have been producing pharmacists with higher pharmaceutical education who can work in offices of pharmacy networks, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies. From 1st to 3rd year, students study humanitarian and socio-economic and natural-scientific, mathematical and medical-biological disciplines (philosophy, bioethics, pedagogy, psychology, pharmacy history, biophysics, mathematics and computer science, chemical disciplines, physiology, anatomy, biology and microbiology, etc.).

At undergraduate level, students study professional disciplines including pharmaceutical and toxicological chemistry, pharmaceutical technology and biotechnology, pharmacology, clinical pharmacology and pharmacognosy. The greatest attention is paid to the study of management and economics of pharmacy, medical and pharmaceutical merchandising, management, marketing and other disciplines, contributing to the training of specialists to meet the modern requirements of the pharmaceutical market.

Leadership & Dean

Since its opening and until 2008, the Dean of the Faculty worked as head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Ministry of Health chief clinical pharmacologist RD, Honored Doctor of the Republic of Dagestan, PhD, Associate Professor Tina Magomedovich Abdurakhmanov. From 2008 to 2014, the dean was Associate Professor of Skin Diseases Aminat Magomedova Magomedovna. From 2014 to the present, the dean is Associate Professor, Department of General and Biological Chemistry Gazimagomedova Madina Magomedovna.

Practical-Laboratory Centre

The Practical-Laboratory Center Faculty of Pharmacy allows students to organize the educational process in accordance with the requirements of state educational standards of higher professional education. All natural sciences are provided by laboratory workshops. Teaching laboratories are equipped with expensive laboratory furniture, microscopes, spectrophotometers, polarography, fotoelektrokollorimetrom, refractometer, and other complex technological equipment.

A major role is given to carrying out educational and industrial practices via a network of pharmacies, "MFS" and "healer". Students study the activity of the analytical and production departments and the organisation process. For medical practice and study, students use a database of the Railway Hospital in the city of Makhachkala. Practical training on botany and pharmacognosy has Mountain Botanic Garden, Dagestan Scientific Center, RAS, Caspian Institute of Biological Resources, and Botanical Garden DSU.

Library & Academic Resources

Since 2006, the library has been a member of the consortium DSMA to create a "Russian Medicine" database that allows the use of a central database of federal scientific medical schools — Library of Medicine. The library also has e-mail and computer education programs. All departments of the Faculty of Pharmacy are equipped with computers and internet access for students and staff.

Student Achievements

Students of the faculty take an active part in sports competitions and amateur activities. Many graduates of the faculty work in retail establishments of Moscow and other Russian regions. The faculty created and operates an educational-methodical commission on specialty disciplines and a professional curriculum to guide the "Pharmacy" speciality.

Educational and industrial practice is carried out in collaboration with pharmaceutical institutions and organisations where students get the skills of organisation of pharmaceutical business.