Traditional Pharmacy

• Educating traditional pharmacy specialists according to the national educational, research, medical services, consultative, and manufacturing needs
• Recognition, explanation, updating, and application of traditional pharmacy knowledge and development of this major

• Expanding scientific knowledge frontiers regarding the native medicinal plants and traditional pharmacy
• Expanding university-industry collaboration Expected Competencies at the End of the Program General competencies expected of the graduates include:
• Communication Skills
• Education
• Research and the scientific writing
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Professionalism

Specific Competencies and Skills

At the end of the program learners will be competent in the following skills:

• Evaluation of the primary natural materials (form herbal, animal, or mineral sources) regarding their temperaments.
• Understanding text books of Persian medicine and pharmacy
• Providing pharmaceutical care services from the Persian medicine's point of view with a focus on indication, mechanism of action, allowed daily dose, drug interactions, and adverse effects
• Identification of commonly used medicinal materials of Iran
• Quality control of medicinal materials, natural and traditional products
• Identifying adulterations of commonly used medicinal materials
• Designing formulation, production, and quality control of natural and traditional products
• Design and development of a business model based on entrepreneurship and commercialization principles

Educational Strategies:

This program is based on the following strategies:

• • Task based learning
  • A combination of student- and teacher-based learning
  • Problem-based learning
  • Hospital based learning
  • Subject-directed learning
  • Systematic learning
  • Evidence-based learning