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INNOSC Theranostics and
Pharmacological Sciences Bibliometric skills of pharma postgraduates

Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus ), fungal (such as Cordyceps pharmaceutical education system – that is, vocational
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sinensis ), and mineral (such as cinnabar ) ingredients. and undergraduate education – do not focus on this aim
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Before the introduction of Western medicine, TCM was (Figure 1). Postgraduate education is indispensable and
the main means of disease treatment in China. Since irreplaceable for future pharmacists.
the introduction of the Western medicine system into Nowadays, the main curricula for pharmacy
China, China has also begun to advance the development postgraduates in China constitute some theoretical courses
and application of modern drugs, including small (such as pharmacology or pharmaceutics), experimental
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molecule chemical drugs, biological macromolecular curricula (such as drug analysis and medicinal chemistry
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drugs (proteins, polysaccharide, nucleic acid, etc.), and experimentation), and practical courses (such as
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vaccines. In recent years, the concept of biotherapy has internships); however, no course focuses on bibliometrics
also received increased attention in China. For instance, training specifically. As a result, students’ abilities to
the most famous biotherapy approaches, chimeric antigen analyze the existing literature and understand the status of
receptor (CAR)-T-cell therapy and CAR-NK cell therapy, current research, hotspots, and development trends in the
are promising new methods of cancer treatment. 8 pharmaceutical field are not being efficiently cultivated.
The development and application of both TCM and
modern medicine require pharmaceutical knowledge, 2. Background
which substantially depends on the cultivation of 2.1. Why propose a new framework?
pharmaceutical talent. This cultivation is realized
mainly through pharmaceutical education. Throughout With the development of the economics and technologies,
history, Chinese culture has attached importance to the demand for health in human society is increasing, which
pharmaceutical education, training numerous talented puts forward higher requirements for the field of drug
research and development. In this context, improving the
Chinese pharmacists. Sun Simiao, who presided over the training quality of postgraduate pharmaceutical students
world’s first national pharmacopeia, Tang Xin Materia is necessary to cultivate stronger independent scientific
Medica, is well known in China to this day. Furthermore, research capabilities. This growing need is manifested at
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Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica is known as the following three levels (Figure 2):
the “great book of oriental medicine.” 10
(1) Societal level. In the context of the continuous recent
In ancient times, the cultivation of pharmaceutical increase in the incidence of tumors, cardiovascular
talents mainly depended on the master–apprentice system. diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases – as well
In modern China, however, the training of pharmaceutical as epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19,
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talent has gradually shifted to the formal modern influenza A, and monkeypox – the demand for safe,
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college pharmaceutical education system. In this system, effective, and quality-controlled drugs is increasing.
postgraduate education occupies a very important position. With the discovery of new therapeutic targets for
This is because its key focus is to train masters and doctors known diseases and the emergence of new infectious
with independent scientific research abilities and provide diseases, the pace of drug research and development
fresh forces for the field of drug design and development. is accelerating, and the demand for new drug
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However, other components of the modern college development capabilities has increased significantly.

Figure 1. Key focus of each component of the modern college pharmaceutical education system

Volume 8 Issue 1 (2025) 60 doi: 10.36922/itps.4734