PharmD Info
Preamble
PharmD Info is the Portal, serving as an online forum dedicated for the pharmacy professionals with inbuilt features of an ideal web discussion portal. The goal of this portal is to create a good communication platform in the web for the pharmacists to make networks within the profession and also with other healthcare professionals and enhance their knowledge, skills and professional relationships. Through this forum, registered members shall form special interest groups and sub-groups on various forum titles (mentioned later in this document) with a designated moderators who shall have the overall access on the sub-group. However, the administrator shall have the completed access and control over the Portal.
Genesis
Dr. GK Sadagoban, a PharmD graduate working as a Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty (A Constituent College of JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru) has developed this Portal out of his professional interest and passion, using the Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP), an open source scripting language for web development and Linux, the most widely used open source operating system. The web site was launched officially by Dr. Md. Afzal Azam, Vice-Principal and Dr. S. Ponnusankar, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacy Practice on 07th April, 2015 in a low profile function held at JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty.
Salient Features of PharmD Info
This Portal comprises of two major platforms, first, the discussion forums and second, E –Learn, Learning Management System (LMS).
Discussion Forums
At present, there are about 9 forums under different titles are operational in the Portal. But any number of titles shall be added as per the requirements and many sub-forums under each title shall also be added in future.