AI is rapidly changing healthcare — from drug discovery to patient-specific treatment. Tools like AlphaFold by DeepMind have revolutionized protein structure prediction, and pharma giants are hiring AI specialists over traditional researchers. But here’s the problem: most pharmacy colleges in India still don’t teach anything about AI, data science, or even basic programming. A 2024 NITI Aayog report highlights the urgent need to integrate digital health into life sciences education. Are we preparing to become obsolete before we even graduate?
Should AI and digital health be added to the B.Pharm/M.Pharm syllabus? Would you be willing to learn coding if it helped your pharma career?
Yes, AI and digital health should definitely be added to the B.Pharm/M.Pharm syllabus, as they are transforming the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Understanding AI tools, data analysis, and digital health technologies can enhance drug development, patient care, and research efficiency. Learning coding, even at a basic level, can be highly valuable for pharmacy professionals to work with digital systems, analyze data, or contribute to tech-driven solutions in healthcare. Personally, I would be willing to learn coding if it helped advance my pharma career and stay relevant in a rapidly evolving field.
Yes , it’s a good idea to add Ai and digital health in the Syllabus of B pharm/ M Pharma because Ai is developing so fast and it will only benfit students if they can learn about Ai and digital health starting from College. It will only help them to get Job easily
Yes it will be game changer for the pharma students and the industry if introduce AI and data science related curriculum to the syllabus of degree and post graduation to make the student’s future ready.
Integration of AI and digital health into the curriculum will definitely help. And also by learning coding along with data analytics, one can move beyond manual data entry/ formulation work towards designing machine learning models for predicting the drug-target interactions, optimizing appropriate designs for clinical trials and also contributing to pharmacovigilance automation.
Yes, it’s a great idea that AI and digital health should be added to the pharma syllabus. I would definitely learn coding for my pharma career as it has a great future ahead in healthcare.
yes AI in healtcare will be ultimate and it create the better innovations with less time and every pharma college should introduce AI and some softwares in curriculum.
I think that integrating AI and digital health into the pharmacy curriculum is necessary because the industry is moving fast in that direction. Also, learning even basic coding or data science could can give us a real edge in our future pharma careers.
The base of AI should be made mandatory, and then they can have a specialization selective to take up AI - Designed specifically for Pharma. Then this may have a tremendous amount of effort into making students ready
Yes, AI should definitely be added in the b.pharm course as AI will become an integral part of our society in the coming years. The world is moving towards more technological advancements. so,we must upskill ourselves with the changing world for better employment opportunities.