Hospital pharmacy provides a base through which a pharmacist must be able to perform medicines management tasks in order to assure and maintain medicines availability by designing and monitoring a high standard multifunctional pharmacy in hospital. The subject enables students to learn regarding the role of pharmacist in research activities and how to cooperate and coordinate with other health professionals to assist these activities. It provides understanding about different types of hospital with their specific actions and mode of treatment, the organizational pattern of a hospital, organogram and mode of functioning of hospital. Students will have a very idea about the critical role of pharmacist in functioning of poison control and drug information centers. A hospital pharmacist being a part of hospital pharmacy and therapeutic committee plays a vital role in designing of hospital formulary according to the needs of patients and health care professionals.

The subject provides understanding regarding monitoring, reporting and management of safe use of medicines by estimating and overcoming all of the possible causes of medication errors. The students will also have an insight of various dispensing techniques for the inpatients, ambulatory patients and dispensing during off hours.