The College of Pharmacy is relatively recent in its origin, having been established in February 1996. It is a constituent element of the four-faculty Health Sciences Centre of Kuwait University, and located within the premises of Faculty of Medicine temporarily, with facilities earmarked for teaching and research, staff and administrative offices, and laboratories. The Faculty enrolled its first batch of 32 students in the academic year 1997/98, and the following years saw a steady increase in student intake to reach the present strength of 200 students. The faculty has already turned out two successful batches of graduate pharmacists, with the first qualifying batch getting their degrees in the year 2002, at the successful completion of the intense five-year Pharmacy program.

The Pharmacy program is offered at the undergraduate level, and has been specifically designed to train students to become competent professionals, and be active members of the health care team. The integrated curriculum follows the North American model of Pharmacy practice, and emphasizes the relationship between pharmaceutical sciences and Pharmacy practice. The program enables students to develop problem-solving skills, while teaching them to be competent, caring health professionals, committed to life-long learning, so that they acquire requisite professional skills and competency to provide the citizens of the State of Kuwait with exemplary pharmaceutical services and care.

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