A key major of Higher Vocational Education in Guangdong Province 

A modern apprenticeship pilot major in Guangdong Province

·Training Objectives: to train high-level technical personnel engaging in pharmaceutical preparation, quality testing for traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine preparations, pharmaceutical quality supervision and management and mastering the necessary theory and operation skills of drug quality and safety control.

·Main Courses: Chemical Analysis, Instrument Analysis, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Practical Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine Chemistry (Provincial Advanced Course of Sharing Resources), Identification Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Test Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine Preparation, Pharmacology, Drug Bioassay Technology, Drug Test Technology (National Excellent Course, National Advanced Course of Sharing Resources), Pharmaceutical Preparation Technology (National Excellent Course, National Advanced Course of Sharing Resources), Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Practice (National Excellent Course, National Advanced Course of Sharing Resources), Pharmaceutical Marketing (Provincial Excellent Course), among which 3 Courses are National Advanced Course of Sharing Resources and 7 are Provincial Advanced Course of Sharing Resources.

·Qualification and Certificate: Drug Test Worker, Drug Preparation Worker, Medical Commodity Buyer and Seller, etc. After graduation, the students can apply for the professional title of pharmacist and other related professional titles in the drug administration system, after working in pharmaceutical enterprises and other related institutions for more than three years; and the ones can apply for the qualification of licensed pharmacist after engaging in related specialties for more than five years.

·Job Prospect: pharmaceuticals and raw and auxiliary materials quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) in pharmaceutical production enterprises, pharmaceutical trading enterprises, pharmaceutical test institutions at all levels and pharmaceutical quality supervision and administration departments, as well as pharmaceutical production and sales.