Department of Pharmacy Practice
Departments
Department of Pharmacy Practice
The Department of Pharmacy Practice is an academic department within the MET Faculty of Pharmacy that specialises in imparting advanced pharmacy practise and providing excellent clinical pharmacy education to our D.Pharm and B.Pharm students. The department provides training and information about patient counselling, drug information services, pharmacokinetics, medication reconciliation, pharmacovigilance, clinical trials, health screening services, health awareness programmes, community outreach programmes, and organise medical camps to clinicians, allied health-care professionals, and patients.
The department is dedicated to educate, train, and service excellence through covering detailed subject areas of Health Education & Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacotherapeutics, Pathophysiology. Through innovative teaching methods and the development of skills to stimulate critical thinking and the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals, the department plays a significant role in instilling the ongoing Pharmacy education programme. The curriculum is intended to convey detailed knowledge and competencies required for pharmacy practise, such as providing pharmaceutical care services to both healthcare professionals and patients in clinical settings, and it allows students to perform clinical studies.
Vision
To bring out potential and more responsible pharmacy professionals.
Mission
- Excellence in academic performance.
- Produce competent clinical pharmacists.
- Provide responsible pharmacy services to the community.
- Inculcate research skills.
- Nurture for better placements.
Pharmacy Practice Services
- Medication Therapy Management: Personalized educational initiatives to stop the misuse, abuse, and underuse of particular medications.
- Patient Counselling: We offer a lot more than just analysing individuals’ medication profiles. Motivational interviews examine the causes of patients’ incorrect medicine use, remove communication obstacles with patients, and enhance patients’ health outcomes by increasing adherence to medical advice.
- Drug Information Services: To encourage the safe, intelligent use of pharmaceuticals, provides timely, evidence-based drug information.
- Drug Information Services: To encourage the safe, intelligent use of pharmaceuticals, and provides timely, evidence-based drug information.
- Medication reconciliation: In order to prevent mistakes like omission, duplication, improper dosages, inappropriate timing, and harmful drug-drug or drug-disease combinations, doctors often compare a patient’s pharmaceutical orders to their medical history.
- Pharmacovigilance (Adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring and reporting): Ensures patient safety and includes reporting, monitoring, and causality analysis of adverse events. We support doctors in preventing and treating adverse drug reactions.
- Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR): Periodic reporting to regulatory authorities of the whole safety experience of newly introduced medications. This is a crucial element of a national post-marketing surveillance programme (Phase-IV study). PSUR assists DCGI in making fair and impartial choices about the implementation of drug safety.
- Health Screening Program: Improves the poor’s access to screening services. Our services include blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index, and glucose monitoring.
- Community Outreach Program: Offers the chance to take part in a variety of community health initiatives all year long, such as immunisation, patient safety, and health education, which aims to increase awareness of drug use and misuse.
- Continuing Pharmacy Education Program: At both the national and international levels, we periodically organise workshops, seminars, symposiums, and conferences. Working pharmacists can get hands-on training and clinical skill improvement.
- Clinical Pharmacy training for students: Through faculty/student exchange programmes, we work with numerous universities. Many students who are enrolled in different institutes and universities can receive clinical pharmacy training from our department.
Career Opportunities
Due to the health care services and pharmaceutical industries’ amazing growth, there has been a substantial increase in the demand for qualified pharmacy experts in recent years. Major contributing reasons include an ageing population, an increase in chronic illnesses, better health coverage, and increased disposable income. Pharmacists are taking a more active role in pharmaceutical care and drug therapy decision-making. Pharmacists are in greater demand across a range of occupational situations.
The following are only a few of the many diverse employment opportunities open to graduates.
- Clinical Pharmacy Practice
- Community Pharmacy
- Public Services
- Home Healthcare
- Hospital Pharmacy
- Managed care
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Pharmaco-economics
- Pharmacy Education
- Research Opportunities
- Foreign Pharmacy Licensure Examinations
