Continuing Professional Education
A pharmacist is the professional who is in direct access to the public and patients. He dispenses medication with prescription and in certain cases without prescription as over-the-counter products. The professional responsibility of a community pharmacist does not end up with mere dispensing the drugs to the needy people, but also include other services like patient counseling, domiciliary service, health education campaigns, health screening, immunization camps etc. Unfortunately the role of pharmacists is not so much recognized till today especially in India and needs strong efforts to enable our community pharmacists to play wide range of professional roles in their practice set-up on par with the developed world.
With this background, Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) program for practicing is being organized by Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty – to educate and motivate about the various roles of pharmacists in the Nilgiris.
Objectives of CPE:
- To explain and understand the various roles of pharmacists in pharmaceutical care
- To upgrade the quality of professional practice of community / hospital pharmacists
Course Content
A pharmacy practitioner can assist the society when the clinical orientation of the pharmacy training program is understood better. During the one day CPE the following interactive discussions are scheduled as provided below:
- Pharmaceutical Care
- Communication Skills
- Rational Drug Use management
- Essential drug concept
- Health Screening Services
- 7 Star Pharmacist
- Storage and stability of Pharmaceutical products
- Patient counseling
- ADR monitoring and reporting