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Info 2023/2024
- Single-cycle master degree
- Duration and credits
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- 5
- Years
- 300
- CFU
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- LM-13.
- PHARMACY AND INDUSTRIAL PHARMACY
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- Free access
- GENOVA
- Italian
- Frontale
- From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
- Student exchange
- To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
- Degree programme table a.y. 2023/2024
- Degree programme plan 2023/2024
- Degree regulations 2023/2024
Course video
The course in brief
Presentation
The degree program prepares for the practice of the profession of pharmacist, conferring the appropriate scientific preparation that characterizes the professional figure of the drug expert.
Learning by doing
The pharmacist's scientific and technological training is supported by extensive practice in didactic laboratories of drug synthesis and analysis, preparation of pharmaceutical forms, and evaluation of pharmaco-biological activities. Training is complemented by the performance of a professionalizing training internship.
Professional outlets
- pharmacist in public and private facilities
- drug and medical device scientific informant
- responsible for preparation, storage, and wholesale distribution of drugs and health products
- responsible for pharmacovigilance and phytovigilance
- cosmetic product development, production and control
- development, production and control of dietary supplements, dietary foods and baby products
- pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical marketing
What you will learn
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Cosa sono i farmaci e come si usano
Conoscere le diverse classi terapeutiche ed il loro impiego
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Come si preparano i medicinali
La loro preparazione a partire dai singoli componenti
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Gli effetti tossici delle sostanze
Conoscere cosa sono le tossine, le sostanze d'abuso, i veleni
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Come si dispensano i medicinali
La buona prassi della loro distribuzione e dispensazione
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La normativa dei prodotti della salute
Le norme del mondo del farmaco e dei dispositivi medici
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I prodotti cosmetici
Conoscere i principali cosmetici ed il loro impiego
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Gli integratori alimentari ed i prodotti dietetici
Conoscere il loro uso, in generale e per fini medici particolari
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I fitoterapici
I farmaci naturali vegetali ed il loro utilizzo in terapia
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La farmacovigilanza e la fitovigilanza
La sorveglianza sui medicinali e sui prodotti naturali
Did you know that.
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Farmacia deriva dalla corporazione degli speziali genovesi del XI secolo
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Il corso di laurea è magistrale, quinquennale, a ciclo unico e riconosciuto nella Unione Europea
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Metterai in pratica le nozioni teoriche con attività pratiche di laboratorio e di tirocinio
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Il Dipartimento organizza eventi per favorire l'incontro di laureandi con il mondo del lavoro
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Il 64,7% dei laureati in Farmacia di UniGe trova lavoro ad un anno dalla laurea
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Al Dipartimento afferiscono la Scuola di Specializzazione in Farmacia Ospedaliera e due curricula di dottorati
Contents
The single-cycle master's degree program is open access, has a duration of five years, and the degree is recognized in all European Union countries (E.C. Directive 85/433/EEC of 9/16/85).
The course involves the study of basic and characterizing subjects. These are complemented by related activities that provide you with knowledge of medical and surgical devices, dietary, cosmetic, herbal, and diagnostic products.
The educational pathway involves the acquisition of 300 CFUs with theoretical and practical teachings, laboratory exercises, and a professional internship qualifying for the profession of Pharmacist, to be carried out at a pharmacy for a period of 6 months (900 hours).
Coordinator

Welcome girls and boys, welcome to our Course. I am delighted that you have chosen this educational path which I hope will fulfill your cultural and professional aspirations and which I hope will accompany you to the world of work. I wish you a peaceful and productive course of study.
Where we are
The DIFAR has two locations:
.- Section of Medicinal and Cosmetic Product Chemistry and Section of Biochemistry
Viale Benedetto XV, 3
16132 Genoa
- Sections of Pharmacology and Toxicology and of Pharmaceutical and Food Chemistry and Technology
Viale Cembrano, 4
16148 Genoa
Success stories
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DIFAR Teaching Secretariat
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V.le Cembrano 4, Genoa
tel. 010 3352647 - 010 3352624
didattica@difar.unige.it