MA/MS in Farmācija

Pharmacy is a five-year second-cycle (second-level) programme in the health care study field, taught in Latvian in Rīga with 300 ECTS credits and classes on weekdays from morning to evening. Graduates receive the qualification of pharmacist. The programme is accredited until 28 May 2030. Pharmacists are experts on the wide range of medicines and are responsible for their preparation, circulation, standardisation, monitoring and expert assessment, as well as for pharmaceutical care. The programme prepares graduates in several areas of knowledge: the types of medicines and the methods used to obtain them, analyse them and assess their quality; how medicines act, are metabolised, cause side effects and can be used rationally and safely; and medicine research and the principles and methods of preparing medicines in pharmacies and manufacturing companies.