The study plan for Industrial Pharmaceutical Chemist (IPQ) should promote the integral formation of a graduate with competencies that allow him/her to develop successfully at a national and international level, in the areas of Industrial Pharmacy, Health Care, and Pharmaceutical Research, taking into consideration the social needs of the country's majority population.

Applicants to the academic program should possess the following competencies:

KNOW

• Handling of remarkable products.
• Properties of exponents.
• Properties of logarithms.
• Algebraic clearings.
• Unit systems.
• Physics concepts such as pressure, volume, mass, force, velocity, etc.
• Oxide reduction.
• Stoichiometric balance.
• Periodic table of the elements.
• Chemical nomenclature.
• Concept of cell, and its components.
• Anatomy of the human body and others corresponding to the upper secondary level in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

KNOW HOW

• To be skilled in the use of basic laboratory techniques.
• Experimental work skills.

KNOW HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

It is desirable that you have:

• A taste for science and in particular an interest in the scientific problems of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Ability to be amazed by reality.
• Creative and innovative capacity.
• Abstract thinking.
• Good study habits, discipline, and tenacity.
• And the restlessness of the search for autonomous learning.
• Concerning their relationship with the environment, they must have empathy, tend to the peaceful management of conflicts, and willingness to teamwork.
• They also require a spirit of service, social and humanitarian awareness, honesty, a high sense of responsibility and moral integrity, and an appreciation for biological diversity.
• What is desirable in terms of knowing how to know, knowing how to do, and knowing how to be and live together, is clearly expressed by Dr. Juan Manuel Gutiérrez Vázquez. Juan Manuel Gutiérrez Vázquez (2004), renowned Mexican educator, and graduate of the ENCB-IPN, in the essay "necessary preparation for students who begin their higher studies", from this text we quote two ideas: "students who were able to carry out acute, analytical observations, in which they not only put into play all the senses relevant to the case but also their ability to carry out an agile mental scrutiny of what they are observing, who would try from the observation itself to establish the existing interactions between the components of the system under study; who would relate the observation they are carrying out at a given moment with the relevant observations they have made previously" and also that ". ...know how to discriminate, how to distinguish; how to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant information; how to distinguish a fact from an assumption or an explanation, or in general how to distinguish a fact from what is not a fact; and, as important as all the previous discriminations, how to distinguish whether the facts resulting from the observation and the well-planned experiment strengthen or discard the proposed explanation, however dear or elegant the explanation may seem to us".
• In this curricular redesign, it is proposed for a better performance of the students enrolled in the QFI career, the implementation of a general diagnostic examination, in the ENCB, and the students with better results would enter in the August-December semester, while the other part would take a propaedeutic or leveling semester, which would help to reduce the failure rate, without detriment of lowering the academic level of the career. This has been achieved in other Mexican entities.

Integral competencies of the QFI graduate:

• Manages their solid academic, technological and humanistic preparation, in their area of professional competence, successfully at national and international levels.
• Manages knowledge as the foundation of their professional work.
• Performs collaborative work, solving problems in the pharmaceutical area, taking into consideration social needs.
• Innovates solutions to problems of their daily work in their professional environment.
• Generates innovative responses to unforeseen situations in their professional area.
• Designs and produces the drug delivery systems required by the country's population, ensuring that they are within the reach of the majority.
• Controls the quality of the design and production of drug delivery systems Performs scientific and technological research in the pharmaceutical area that contributes to the sustainable development of the nation.
• Contributes to the resolution of health care problems within its competence.
• Solves problems arising in the production of drug delivery systems and other areas of their profession, often immediately.
• Takes action, on his initiative, to enrich his knowledge.
• Rules his life with quality (scientific, technological, and humanistic), responsibility, ethics, tolerance, and social commitment.

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

• Pharmaceutical Industry (drug production, quality control, administrative area).
• Chemical Industry.
• Governmental agencies.
• Marketing.
• Cosmetics.
• Hospital pharmacy.
• Research (drug synthesis, natural products and others).

Check the list of subjects, credits and total hours of the program in:

• ENCB