The Pharmaceutical Biochemist (PB) educational program distributes credits across knowledge areas, facilitating the comprehensive training of a health sciences professional based on the competencies required in the professional field.
It maintains a flexible curriculum, supporting competency-based professional education and promoting lifelong learning.
The current curriculum consists of three stages of training: basic, disciplinary, and terminal, spread over eight semesters with a total of 350 credits, including those allocated to professional internships. These three stages of training achieve an academic balance that promotes and facilitates the development of competencies transferable to professional practice and adaptable to the scientific and technological advances in the field.
Basic Stage
It comprises three semesters, consists of 122 credits, and includes interdisciplinary learning units. The first two semesters form a Common Chemistry Core (CCC), which is shared with the Industrial Chemistry curriculum and has a formative orientation: it integrates knowledge in basic sciences (chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics) and social-humanistic sciences. All learning units within the CCC are mandatory.
The third semester represents the first exposure to the disciplinary profile and is characterized by including both mandatory and elective learning units. Upon completing this stage, the student is capable of applying their knowledge to represent natural mechanisms and phenomena through logical and analytical reasoning. Additionally, they are equipped to communicate effectively and integrate harmoniously into work teams.
Disciplinary Stage
It comprises three semesters, consists of 128 credits, and includes learning units with a predominance of specialized knowledge in chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical sciences (90.6% mandatory and the remainder elective). Continuously, from the fourth to the sixth semester, the learning units are designed to deepen and enrich theoretical-practical knowledge and technical-methodological skills in the professional discipline, with an emphasis on experience-based education.
Upon completing this stage, the student is capable of applying their knowledge and skills in the characterization of both basic and advanced operations that comprise chemical-biological and chemical-pharmaceutical processes, in order to solve problems and meet the needs of various areas of the professional environment, demonstrating a high degree of responsibility and ethical awareness.
Terminal Stage
It comprises two semesters, consists of 100 credits, and includes highly specialized learning units (48% mandatory and the remainder elective), which emphasize the application of disciplinary theoretical knowledge and the practice of specific skills for clinical laboratory diagnostics, the development of biological and pharmaceutical products, and professional pharmacy services.
University engagement is a distinctive feature of this stage, as it provides students with the opportunity to participate in formative activities, such as professional internships and a credit-bearing linkage project, in direct contact with the professional environment.
Upon completing this stage, the student is capable of applying their advanced knowledge and skills in procedures aimed at solving problems and meeting the needs of the professional environment, ensuring quality and enhancing productivity in sectors related to their professional performance, while integrating into multidisciplinary teams and promoting sustainable development in contemporary society.
Para mayor información
Coordinación de Químico Farmacobiólogo
coordiancionqfb.fcqi@uabc.edu.mx
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería. UABC. Campus Otay: Calzada Universidad 14418 Parque Industrial Internacional Tijuana B.C. 22427 Tel.979 75 00.