Educational program	8D10104 Pharmacy
Direction of personnel training	8D101 Healthcare
Group of educational programs	D140 Pharmacy
Mission	To ensure the training of competitive specialists with a high level of professional and human competence, with advanced pedagogical, methodological and research skills in the field of pharmacy, able to independently determine new areas of research in order to address the protection and provision of health; competitive in the domestic and international labor market in accordance with the needs and prospects for the development of the country and the region, having an active citizenship based on the ideas of peace, goodness and justice.
EP purpose	To ensure the training of competitive specialists with systemic knowledge and skills in the field of pharmacy, capable of generating innovations, implementing best practices in the development and circulation of medicines and medical devices.
Period of study	3 years
Language of education	russian, kazakh, english
The awarded academic degree	Doctor of philosophy, PhD
Educational outcomes	ON1. Has the skills and methods of scientific research in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices for solving research and practical problems using information and communication technologies. ON2. Conducts original independent research with scientific results, following ethical principles, participates in the development of new ideas and projects using special knowledge for critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new complex ideas of the leading edge of healthcare, analyze and evaluate existing concepts, theories, interpretation of approaches to the analysis of processes and phenomena; ON3. Applies knowledge on the organization, planning and control of the functioning of entities in the healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry, taking into account the requirements of regulatory documents and international good practices of GXP in the field of circulation of medicines and medical devices to provide timely and high-quality pharmaceutical assistance to the population and medical preventive organizations ON4. Using communication skills, academic writing skills and knowledge of the professional language for productive participation in professional discussions, the publication of research results in accordance with the requirements in international academic publications. Able to communicate on topics in their field of competence with equal status, with the wide scientific community and society. ON5. Analyzes and manages the process of drug provision at the organization level, the formation and rational use of inventories of pharmaceutical organizations for wholesale and retail sales to the population and organizations using innovative communication tools. ON6. Summarizes, analyzes and differentiates issues of clinical pharmacology and clinical and pharmacological characteristics of individual groups and drugs, clinical aspects of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; evaluation of the use of medicines, pharmacovigilance issues (GVP), regulation of drug provision in medical institutions in compliance with the principles of rational pharmacotherapy for certain diseases ON7. Analyzes and differentiates regulatory and technical documentation of the process of manufacturing and manufacturing of medicines and medical devices; systematizes and summarizes research results and selects optimal methods and technologies for their production in accordance with the requirements of the GMP and GLP good manufacturing practice standard ON8. Defines active and accompanying substances in natural raw materials, performs quality control of pharmaceutical substances, standard samples, auxiliary substances and materials, medicinal plant raw materials, as well as medicines and medical devices at all stages of collection, storage and technological process in accordance with current legislation and good pharmaceutical practices of GXP, possession of modern physical, physical-chemical and chemical methods of their analysis ON9. Analyzes, systematizes and summarizes the objectives of the study and the selection of chemical toxicological expertise in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan ON10. Select the best methods and technologies for the production of medicines and medical devices in accordance with the requirements of the GMP and GLP Good Manufacturing Practice standard. ON11. Applies knowledge of the principles and methods of forming a healthy lifestyle of a person and family, a set of factors that determine health and disease for the purpose of prevention ON12. Critically assesses own performance and updates knowledge and skills in the changing context of pharmaceutical science and practice.

The facilities for internships are the following partners of the department:

RSE on REM RSCD, National Center for Rational Use of Medicines, GxP Company LLP, Innova Life LLP, ZhanaPharm LLP, Antigen Scientific and Production Enterprise LLP, Scientific Center for Anti-Infectious Drugs JSC, Nobel JSC.