Pharmacy University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Overview

Key facts

The profession is dynamic; continually expanding in new directions and offering interdisciplinary professional education and work-based learning opportunities. 

Over time, the paradigm has shifted from traditional compounding and dispensing of medicines to a more patient-orientated, research-led professional advisory and primary healthcare role.

Pharmacists screen people for early signs of disease, using advanced methods to provide sound pharmaceutical care. They are also specialists in the formulation, manufacture,storage, dispensing, counselling, and controlling of medicines. They provide advice on medications used to treat illnesses and ensure optimal drug therapy.

Clinical pharmacy involves screening patients for chronic diseases and implementing appropriate care and advice to improve patient outcomes. You will learn how to screen for chronic diseases through our Screening and Testing Programme for Pharmacy Students (STEPPS) and in our Clinical Pharmacy programme, which uses state-of-the-art screening equipment.

Pharmaceutical research pharmacists research and develop new, safer, more effective medicines. As a graduate of the Bachelor of Pharmacy offered by University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, you will be exposed to cutting-edge global research and distinctive research-led pharmacy education from our Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) unit, as well as aseptic concepts in Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Natural Products development.

Career Opportunities

The Pharmacy degree offered at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg   provides training in a wide range of interrelated disciplines and therefore offers a variety of career opportunities to graduates that include:

• Academia and Research

• Community Pharmacy

• Hospital Pharmacy

• Industrial Pharmacy

• Managed Healthcare

Other areas in which Pharmacists are involved:

• Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring

• Clinical Trials

• Contract Research

• Drug Abuse Counselling

• Drug Information Centres

• Drug Stewardship

• Drug Utilisation Reviews

• Intellectual Property of Pharmaceuticals

• Medicines Control Council

• Pharmacovigilance

• Pharmaco-Economics

• Professional Regulatory Bodies

• Poison Information Centres

• Publishing of Pharmaceutical Research