Minimum Skills Required After Graduation from a College of Pharmacy

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As specified in the Regulation on minimum knowledge volume, and competence requirements that learners must achieve after graduating from intermediate and college levels in the Pharmacy sector, issued together with Circular 54/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, the minimum skills that learners must achieve after graduating from the College of Pharmacy are as follows:

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

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

- Recognize and instruct the use of chemical drugs, vaccines, biological products, and 100 essential traditional medicines and medicinal herbs in the list of safe, effective, and rational essential medicines;

- Manufacture and compound some forms of drugs and functional foods according to GMP principles and standards;

- Assign tasks and supervise the performance of each member in the production team, warehouse, and pharmacy;

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

- Sampling drugs, cosmetics, functional foods for testing;

- Compound some standard solutions, stock solutions, and reagents;

- Test some basic types of drugs and medicinal herbs according to Pharmacopoeia standards;

- Control experimental environmental conditions;

- Destroy drug, cosmetic, and functional food samples according to regulations;

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

- Supervise the production process according to regulations;

- Diagnose common diseases based on process-related patient health information;

- Identify situations that require consultation from pharmacists or doctors;

- Advise, select, fetch, package, calculate prices, receive payments, and instruct the use of basic medications ensuring safety, effectiveness, and reasonableness;

- Arrange, display, store drugs, chemicals, functional foods, cosmetics, medicinal herbs, and medical supplies according to regulations;

- Develop business strategies for the pharmacy;

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

- Deliver, send drugs, raw materials for making drugs, chemicals, and medical tools according to regulations;

- Handle returned or recalled drugs, raw materials for making drugs, chemicals, and medical tools;

- Inspect and control drugs, raw materials for making drugs, chemicals, and medical tools for quantity, quality, and expiration date;

- Develop supply, storage, distribution, and usage plans for drugs, chemicals, raw materials, and consumable medical supplies;

- Collect and report adverse drug reactions (ADRs);

- Use basic information technology as required; exploit, process, and apply information technology in professional work in the sector;

- Use basic foreign language, achieving level 2/6 in the Vietnam's Foreign Language Competence Framework; apply foreign language in professional work in the sector.

For details, refer to Circular 54/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, effective February 10, 2019.

Le Vy

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