Learning Objectives

• Introduction to pharmacy profession
• Importance of pharmacists
• Introduction, scope and progress of the pharmacy profession in the world

Human beings always have an intense urge of treating physical and mental ailments. From the time of evolution of human beings, an existing practice is identification of active constituents, collection, processing and incorporation into suitable dosage forms. Drugs have made the human life better and longer. They have played a vital role in scientific discovery, arts, commerce and political thinking of mankind. Medicaments such as antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents, insulin, etc., have saved people and kept them alive from fatal diseases.