MSc. Clinical Pharmacy

The M.Sc. Program in Clinical Pharmacy is designed in academic partnership with West Virginia University (USA) to prepare professionally competent graduate students with deep subject knowledge and skills to match with the growing need of patient-centered pharmaceutical care services in Oman and abroad.

The program will enable the students to possess knowledge of the use of drugs, work as competent members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams for patient care, and correlate knowledge of drug therapy and disease conditions.

Obtaining the MSc degree in Clinical Pharmacy will provide students the competency to practice the profession effectively in a clinical pharmacy setting as a clinical practitioner involving medication management and pharmaceutical care.

The core courses will provide advanced knowledge and understanding of patient care services required in the healthcare delivery system. The clinical research methodology course will inculcate the skills of inquisitiveness, propose research questions and design, develop, and conduct meaningful clinical research in a hospital setting. Further, the elective courses will provide additional competency of the graduates in the areas of specialisation and contemporary significance.

The students will undertake clerkship and clinical rotations in hospitals in Oman and abroad to gain clinical competency and to resolve pharmaceutical care challenges in clinical settings.

The program is featured with a flexible delivery   model that will suit the front-line healthcare workers and working professionals.

• B. Pharm. degree (or equivalent) from any university recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Sultanate of Oman with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.75 based on a record of 4-point scale or its equivalent.
• Two years of work experience in a Hospital Pharmacy is a must for candidates with GPA of 2.0 or more. Bridging courses for up to one year to raise their GPA might be requested from some students based on the Program Committee evaluation.
• English proficiency with a minimum of 550 in the international paper-based TOEFL or 6.0 points in the academic IELTS and a satisfactory personal interview.