In the new era, integrating ideological and political education into the teaching of professional knowledge is a new requirement for educators to achieve all-round development and is a key task in college course reform focusing on fostering virtue through education. Drug safety is an important guarantee for safeguarding people’s health and promoting social medical progress. Therefore, the integration of ideological and political education into the industrial pharmaceutics course is conducive to the organic unity of professional knowledge and ideological education, cultivating students’ strong awareness of industrial production safety, responsibility, and rigorous and realistic attitude. Through discussions on the value and significance of ideological and political education reforms in this course, combined with its unique advantages, and by exploring and summarizing reform paths from aspects such as theoretical fundamentals, current status, and objectives, a multi-faceted model can be constructed to comprehensively cultivate students’ professional quality and truly achieve the educational goal of “curriculum-based ideological and political education.”