Essential Skills Required After Graduating with an Intermediate Pharmacy Degree

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In the regulations on minimum knowledge volume, competency requirements that learners must achieve after graduating from intermediate and college levels in the field of pharmacy, issued along with Circular 54/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, the minimum skills that learners must achieve after graduating from the intermediate level in Pharmacy are specified as follows:

- Effectively communicate with colleagues, patients, and the community;

- Search, collect, process information, write, present, discuss, and negotiate with appropriate language, methods, and duration;

- Recognize and guide the use of chemical drugs, vaccines, biological products, and 80 essential traditional medicines and herbal medicines listed in the Essential Drug List;

- Formulate and produce certain types of drugs and functional foods following GMP principles and standards;

- Use basic tools and equipment in the laboratory for drug testing, chemicals, medicinal materials, functional foods, and cosmetics;

- Sample for testing conformably;

- Formulate some standard solutions, mother solutions, and testing drugs conformably;

- Test some common drug forms according to Pharmacopeia standards;

- Perform regular maintenance and periodic maintenance of basic equipment in production, testing, and storage;

- Diagnose common ailments based on the process of gathering information related to the patient's health;

- Identify situations requiring consultation from pharmacists or doctors;

- Advise, select, retrieve, package, price, receive payment, and guide the use of basic drugs ensuring safety-effectiveness-reasonableness;

- Arrange, display, and store drugs, chemicals, functional foods, cosmetics, medicinal materials, and medical supplies conformably;

- Purchase, import, and control the quality of drugs, chemicals, functional foods, cosmetics, medicinal materials, and medical supplies according to the correct procedures;

- Deliver, send drugs, drug materials, chemicals, and medical tools conformably;

- Check and control drugs, drug materials, chemicals, and medical tools for quantity, quality, and expiration date;

- Plan the supply, storage, distribution, and use of drugs, chemicals, materials, and consumable medical supplies;

- Use basic information technology according to regulations; apply information technology in some professional tasks of the field;

- Use basic foreign language, achieve level 1/6 in Vietnam's foreign language competency framework; apply foreign languages in some professional tasks of the field.

Detailed regulations can be found in Circular 54/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, issued on December 28, 2018.

Le Vy

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