Innovation and Best Practices

The Department has been adopting various innovative pedagogy and best practices to enhance students’ learning experience.

Innovations in Teaching

• Bedside teaching
• Problem based learning
• Case based learning
• Journal clubs /drug monograph presentations
• Innovative pedagogy: mind mapping, quizlets, flipped classrooms, flash cards, etc.

Innovations in Teaching

• At JSS Hospital, Mysuru
  • Regional Poison Information Centre
  • Ambulatory Patient Counseling & Education Centre
  • JSS Medication Information for Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders (MINDS) Initiatives - Pharmacist-Psychiatrist Collaborative Model
  • Anti-Coagulation Clinic
  • Medication error reporting & monitoring program
  • Services to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  • Cart Fill Drug Distribution System

• Residency training
• Inter Professional Education (IPE) – involving Medical, Pharmacy & Nursing Faculty and Students
• Introduction of OSCE in Regular Practical Class and in Formative (Practical) Examination
• Basic Life Support Training to IPPE students
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Training to APPE students