The double degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry seeks to train experts, both in all aspects related to drugs and medicines, and to train highly qualified professionals for the primary care of visual health, in accordance with the European Directives concerning the qualifications of both Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry. Both degrees are sufficiently interrelated to make a double degree pathway viable. The competences that students acquire together will enable them to have a more versatile professional profile, broadening the fields in which they can develop.
Double Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry
Duration:
6 academic years
ECTS Number: 411
Seats number: 10
Dean or center director:
Mª de los Reyes Laguna Francia
Coordinator university:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Partaker universities:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Professional qualification:
- Regulated profession: Pharmacist
- Regulated profession: Optician - Optometrist
The Bachelor’s Degrees in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry are sufficiently complementary to make it feasible to design a pathway to obtain a double degree. Both professions have as their ultimate aim the promotion of integral and visual health, and both degrees belong to the branch of Health Sciences (with a significant number of common subjects), and that both Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry are unique degrees not only in the Galician community but also in the north of Spain, it seems appropriate to propose that students can combine both degrees, under the heading of ‘Double Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry’.
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The USC has a programme of student tutors for Bachelor’s degrees, so that students in their final years, after receiving training provided by the University, carry out orientation tasks for students who are beginning their studies.
Information on the student tutor programme:
Tutoring programme
When an official degree is suspended, the USC guarantees the effective development of the studies started by its students until their completion. To this end, the Governing Council approves the criteria related, among others, to:
• The admission of new enrolments in the degree programme.
• The gradual suppression of teaching.
• If the extinct degree is replaced by another similar one (modifying the nature of the degree), it establishes the conditions that facilitate students’ continuity of studies in the new degree and the equivalences between the subjects of one and the other plan.
The general requirements for access to degree programmes are set out in article 15 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of 28 September, which establishes the organisation of university education and the procedure for quality assurance. More information can be found at the following link:
Access to Degree
In addition, the USC has a University Information Office (OIU) https://www.usc.gal/en/node/44321 , through which specific queries are answered.
The double Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry aims to train experts, both in all aspects related to drugs and medicines, and to train highly qualified professionals for the primary care of visual health, in accordance with the European Directives concerning the qualifications of both Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry.
See the information on each degree
See the information on each degree
See the information on each degree
Mobility
The mobility of own and host students is regulated at the USC by the Regulations on Inter-University Student Exchanges, approved by the Governing Council on 26.10.2012, and amended in 2019, the content of which can be consulted at the following link:
https://www.usc.gal/en/institucional/goberno/area/normativa/alumnado
Internships
The requirements that students must fulfil in order to take the Supervised Practice course are to have passed 243 ECTS, of which at least 237 must correspond to basic and compulsory training subjects established by the Joint Commission (representatives of the Galician Pharmaceutical Associations, representatives of Hospital Pharmacy, representatives of the Faculty of Pharmacy/University of Santiago de Compostela).
In the Teaching Programme of the Tutored Practice, a compulsory subject of 24 ECTS, a series of items are included to evaluate the competences acquired by the student. All students are required to do these placements and can do so in two different shifts in each academic year. Before the start of the Tutored Internship, students must attend two days of lectures on career opportunities.
The Optics tutored internship, with a load of 15 ECTS, aims to provide students with the possibility of applying the knowledge they have acquired. The aim is for the future optician-optometrist to integrate into the professional environment, preparing them to carry out the activities they will be involved in in their future professional practice.
The training of Graduates in Pharmacy enables them to carry out the profession in pharmacies, in the pharmaceutical industry, in hospital and non-hospital specialisations, in analysis laboratories and in education and research activities, corresponding to activities aimed at the production, conservation and dispensing of medicines, as well as collaboration in analytical, pharmacotherapeutic and public health monitoring processes.
The degree in Optics and Optometry by the USC, is a degree regulated by the Law of Regulation of Health Professions, which enables the exercise of a regulated profession, that of Optician-Optometrist; and aims to train highly qualified graduates for Primary Visual Health Care.
Students must take a final dissertation of 6 credits corresponding to the Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and another of 9 credits corresponding to the Bachelor’s Degree in Optics and Optometry.
No information available at this time.
Duration:
6 academic years
ECTS Number: 411
Seats number: 10
Dean or center director:
Mª de los Reyes Laguna Francia
Coordinator university:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Partaker universities:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Professional qualification:
- Regulated profession: Pharmacist
- Regulated profession: Optician - Optometrist
The Bachelor’s Degrees in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry are sufficiently complementary to make it feasible to design a pathway to obtain a double degree. Both professions have as their ultimate aim the promotion of integral and visual health, and both degrees belong to the branch of Health Sciences (with a significant number of common subjects), and that both Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry are unique degrees not only in the Galician community but also in the north of Spain, it seems appropriate to propose that students can combine both degrees, under the heading of ‘Double Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry’.
No data available for the selected academic year.
No data available for the selected academic year.
The USC has a programme of student tutors for Bachelor’s degrees, so that students in their final years, after receiving training provided by the University, carry out orientation tasks for students who are beginning their studies.
Information on the student tutor programme:
Tutoring programme
When an official degree is suspended, the USC guarantees the effective development of the studies started by its students until their completion. To this end, the Governing Council approves the criteria related, among others, to:
• The admission of new enrolments in the degree programme.
• The gradual suppression of teaching.
• If the extinct degree is replaced by another similar one (modifying the nature of the degree), it establishes the conditions that facilitate students’ continuity of studies in the new degree and the equivalences between the subjects of one and the other plan.
The general requirements for access to degree programmes are set out in article 15 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of 28 September, which establishes the organisation of university education and the procedure for quality assurance. More information can be found at the following link:
Access to Degree
In addition, the USC has a University Information Office (OIU) https://www.usc.gal/en/node/44321 , through which specific queries are answered.
The double Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry aims to train experts, both in all aspects related to drugs and medicines, and to train highly qualified professionals for the primary care of visual health, in accordance with the European Directives concerning the qualifications of both Pharmacy and Optics and Optometry.
See the information on each degree
See the information on each degree
See the information on each degree
Mobility
The mobility of own and host students is regulated at the USC by the Regulations on Inter-University Student Exchanges, approved by the Governing Council on 26.10.2012, and amended in 2019, the content of which can be consulted at the following link:
https://www.usc.gal/en/institucional/goberno/area/normativa/alumnado
Internships
The requirements that students must fulfil in order to take the Supervised Practice course are to have passed 243 ECTS, of which at least 237 must correspond to basic and compulsory training subjects established by the Joint Commission (representatives of the Galician Pharmaceutical Associations, representatives of Hospital Pharmacy, representatives of the Faculty of Pharmacy/University of Santiago de Compostela).
In the Teaching Programme of the Tutored Practice, a compulsory subject of 24 ECTS, a series of items are included to evaluate the competences acquired by the student. All students are required to do these placements and can do so in two different shifts in each academic year. Before the start of the Tutored Internship, students must attend two days of lectures on career opportunities.
The Optics tutored internship, with a load of 15 ECTS, aims to provide students with the possibility of applying the knowledge they have acquired. The aim is for the future optician-optometrist to integrate into the professional environment, preparing them to carry out the activities they will be involved in in their future professional practice.
The training of Graduates in Pharmacy enables them to carry out the profession in pharmacies, in the pharmaceutical industry, in hospital and non-hospital specialisations, in analysis laboratories and in education and research activities, corresponding to activities aimed at the production, conservation and dispensing of medicines, as well as collaboration in analytical, pharmacotherapeutic and public health monitoring processes.
The degree in Optics and Optometry by the USC, is a degree regulated by the Law of Regulation of Health Professions, which enables the exercise of a regulated profession, that of Optician-Optometrist; and aims to train highly qualified graduates for Primary Visual Health Care.
Students must take a final dissertation of 6 credits corresponding to the Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and another of 9 credits corresponding to the Bachelor’s Degree in Optics and Optometry.
No information available at this time.