Pharmacy overview
Welcome to the web page of Department of pharmacy at Debre Markos University. On behalf of the department & myself, I would like to extend a warmth welcome to our web page. Thank you for considering Debre Markos University Health Science College, pharmacy department. You are about to embark on a challenging, exciting and rewarding career choices.
Department of pharmacy was opened in 2008/2015 to train highly qualified pharmacists who fulfill the essential, minimum common expectations of health care systems worldwide while fulfilling local needs. Currently, the department has a total of forty academic staff, one secretory and three laboratory technicians. The academic staff comprises a mixture of professionals in its different units such as: Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy, Social and administrative Pharmacy and pharmaceutical analysis with a total of thirteen (off which four are Assistant professors) masters and twenty seven bachelor holders, off which 20 are on study leave.
Pharmacy department has only regular program; we are on a good track to have the first Msc program of the department; Msc in Pharmacology. We are also attempting another undergraduate program called Post basic Pharmacy. Finally, our web page will provide you with the latest information on our academic programs, staff profile, research and community services provided, admission process and requirements.
Vision:
Pharmacy department aspires to be a leading pharmacy education, research and service center in the country, famous in Africa and respected in the world by 2030.
Mission:
The department of pharmacy is committed to train highly qualified, demanded and clinical oriented pharmacists equipped with intellectual, moral and social values of high standard.
Pharmacy research and community service
Since its establishment, the department with its skill full energetic as well as committed staffs, more than forty research articles has been published by the academic staff in different internationally known reputable journals. The result of the research works are disseminated to the wider community via radio, research conferences and seminars. Various research works are also being conducted by the staff.
The staff members have also great engagement and contribution in various research projects; the well- known is their engagement in the university’s ten year mega research project called: Indigenous Knowledge Documentation, Medicinal Plant Conservation and Validation and Standardization in East and West Gojjam, Awi and Metekel Zones, North western Ethiopia.
Most recently and notably too, since the emergence of corona virus pandemic globally and in Ethiopia, thousands of litters of sanitizer has been produced by the staff of the department and distributed freely based on the WHO recommendation for sanitizer production and distribution for prevention of the spread of the virus in the locality and the country at large.
Various seminars and series of radio programs on drug related issues have been presented to the community of Debre Markos University and the community of the surrounding environment at different times. Drug handling, production and compounding, appropriate use, drug safety monitoring, procurement, distribution, dispensing, use pattern and drug resistance mechanisms and its prevention as well as the prons and cons of traditional medicine are the main areas of focus for wider community service activities of the department.
Since the department is full of staff with basic and TOT certificates in ART, PBL, Life skill, CRC, Pain management and APTS, we can deliver trainings for those who are in need for continues professional development (CPD) and other academic requirements.