| English is essential to supporting the work of pharmacy assistants employed in either hospital or retail pharmacies. Thus, in order to develop the English skills of the pharmacy assistants in relation to their duties in providing information about drugs, an English for Pharmacist program, along with its syllabus, can be designed to accommodate the learners’ needs. To design the syllabus, this study initially relied on the needs analysis conducted at a pharmacy college in Jakarta, involving 35 pharmacy students who worked as pharmacy assistants and six experienced pharmacists. Most of the students graduated from pharmacy vocational high schools and were already working as pharmacy assistants while continuing their studies to attain a diploma as a pharmacist. The findings show that speaking was the most necessary skill, followed by listening, reading, and writing skills. The respondents alluded to the need for speaking skill to provide information about drugs to patients and customers, namely the doses, drug use, prices, side effects, storage, indications, and contraindications. Regarding receptive skills, the learners mentioned the need to listen to the symptoms of the disease that the patient shared to ensure the appropriate drug prescriptions and the need to read drug brochures. Writing skill was also likely useful in preparing the drug labels containing information on how to use the drug. In addition, vocabulary in medical field was considered crucial to the success of the English use in the four skills. In light of the needs analysis, a syllabus was designed, adopting mainly the content-based syllabus design that was integrated with other syllabus types, including notional-functional, situational, skill-based, and task-based syllabi. The syllabus content was made to cater for a larger proportion of speaking skills, complemented with the other three skills and drug-related vocabulary enrichment. Based on the syllabus, students’ speaking skills would be trained and continually assessed to identify both the strengths and weaknesses of the learners. The syllabus content also revolved around drugs that patients most commonly requested. Eventually, the syllabus is designed in a way that can help the learners achieve their main objective, that is, being able to provide information about drugs orally to patients and customers in English |