B.Pharm First Year Syllabus

Python fundamentals — data types, control structures, functions and libraries such as NumPy and Pandas; handling and visualising pharmaceutical and biological data; computational thinking for pharmacy applications.

Scope and history of the pharmacy profession; roles and responsibilities of a pharmacist; introduction to dosage forms, prescriptions and dispensing; pharmaceutical terminology and calculations.

Basics of psychology in healthcare; patient behaviour and counselling; verbal and non-verbal communication; empathy, ethics and professional interaction with patients and healthcare teams.

Structure and function of the human body — cell, tissues and the skeletal, muscular, nervous and cardiovascular systems; introduction to the pathophysiology of common disorders.

Definition, history and scope of pharmacognosy; classification of crude drugs; sources and cultivation of medicinal plants; introduction to primary and secondary plant metabolites.

Inorganic pharmaceuticals and their uses; limit tests; acids, bases and buffers; fundamentals of qualitative and quantitative (titrimetric) analysis.

Descriptive and inferential statistics; probability distributions; hypothesis testing; correlation and regression; data-analytics workflows applied to pharmaceutical and clinical data.

Structure and function of biomolecules — carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids; enzymes; bioenergetics and metabolism including glycolysis and the TCA cycle.

The respiratory, digestive, urinary, endocrine and reproductive systems and their functions; pathophysiology of related disorders.

Structure, nomenclature, preparation and reactions of organic compounds; functional groups; stereochemistry and reaction mechanisms relevant to drug molecules.

Chemistry, biosynthesis, isolation and analysis of secondary metabolites — alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, volatile oils and resins.

Physicochemical properties of drugs — solubility, states of matter, phase equilibria, surface and interfacial phenomena, rheology, and reaction kinetics and stability.