Representing a mark of Ouro Preto pioneering, the Pharmacy Program and the School of Pharmacy both originated in 1839. The school’s consolidation came after the Republic’s proclamation, becoming the first Latin American school to dissociate the pharmaceutical studies from the Medicine Program. With a 10 semesters duration, the program offers 50 vacancies in the daytime period. By using a theoretical-practical method and generalist background, the program’s goal is to train professionals capable of restoring and guaranteeing quality in the health and human wellness through full knowledge of medications. With mandatory and elective courses, and supervised internships, the program capacitates the student to work on activities related to drugs, medications, industries, clinical, toxicological, and food analysis.
To guarantee solid and practical training, the program has 33 laboratories of practical classes for graduation and 22 research labs. The program’s professor’s board is 95% composed by doctors, most of them involved with graduate programs in the areas of Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences and Clinical Analysis.
The pharmacist is ready to work in all levels of health attention with basis on the scientific and intellectual demands, capacitated for the exercise of activities related to drugs and medications, to the clinical, toxicological and food analysis. Covered in ethical principles, in social, cultural, and economic comprehension and its environment, the professional directs their actuation to the transformation of reality in benefits for the society.
