JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research

Need of Pharmacy Education Unit

Community and Industry oriented Pharmacy programs like Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm), Bachelors in Pharmacy (B.Pharm) and Masters in Pharmacy (M.Pharm in Pharmaceutical Sciences) are in existence since many years. Though the patient oriented M.Pharm in Pharmacy Practice program was established in India in 1997 (first time at JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru), still it is developing its roots. In 2008, Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) came out with six years Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) program to develop patient oriented Pharmacy Professionals, who can work with other health care professionals in hospital wards to improve the patient care by providing various Clinical Pharmacy services. The program was initially started in 10 Pharmacy Colleges, currently there are 233 institutions offering Pharm.D and Pharm.D (Post Baccalaureate) Courses. Though it has completed a decade, still we need to achieve the purpose of introducing this course to develop Patient Oriented Pharmacy Professionals. Lack of trained faculty in this area and failure to impart the required skills among Pharm.D students are the important reasons behind this.

In this backdrop, in similar lines with Medical Education Units at Medical Institutions, Pharmacy Education Unit was established at JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru with the following vision and mission

Vision

To implement and promote the innovative teaching methodologies in Pharmacy Education.

Mission

To ensure the successful development, delivery, assessment, and continuous improvement of all college-specific education programs, in particular the Pharm.D program.

Aims & Objectives

As currently there are no aims set up by Pharmacy Council of India to establish Pharmacy Education Unit, we adopted the aims of Medical Education Unit defined by Medical Council of India

Aims of Pharmacy Education Unit:

To sensitize teachers about new concepts in teaching and assessment methods
To develop knowledge and clinical skills required for performing the role of competent and effective teacher, administrator, researcher and mentor
To assist teachers and students to acquire competency in communication and behavioural skills
To update knowledge using modern information and research methodology tools

Objectives of Pharmacy Education Unit:

To be responsible for all educational processes
To ensure continuous quality improvement in teaching learning and assessment in professional education
Plan, implement and evaluate curricular development and faculty development in the college
Facilitate educational research through projects, research publication and PhD course
Keep the faculty updated of the current trends in pharmacy education by conducting workshops and conferences
To develop into an educational resource centre
Contribute towards policy development, feedback system, assessment, communication skills and humanities
To develop and implement instructional design

Programs for students:

Induction / Foundation /Orientation programs
Research methodology workshops
Humanities workshops
Interns orientation programs (for Pharm.D)
Synopsis writing workshops
Synopsis evaluation before submission to IEC
Dissertation writing workshops
Skills workshops

Programs for faculty

Faculty development programs on
- Curriculum designing workshops
- Teaching learning and assessment methodologies workshops
- E-Learning principles
- Research methodology workshops
- Leadership and management
- Communication and conflict management
- Soft skills
Conferences/ workshops/ guest lectures/continuing pharmacy education programs will be organized on need basis

Impact of Pharmacy Education Unit:

By imparting the skills among Pharm.D students towards patient care can benefit the patient population in hospitals and community by providing standard clinical pharmacy services. All the Pharmacy institutions across the country can establish Pharmacy Education Units in their institutions to achieve the goals set up in this project, there by improve the patient care throughout the country.

CHAIRMAN	Dr. T.M. Pramod Kumar Principal
MEMBER SECRETARY	Dr. Srikant M S Lecturer, Dept. Pharmacy Practice
MEMBERS	Dr. Acsha Annie Paul Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice
	Dr. K N Nagsahree Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmacology
	Mrs. Preethi S Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmaceutics
	Mrs. Haripriya G Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmacogonosy
	Dr. Prabitha P Lecturer, Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Guidlines

Pharmacy Education Unit Guidelines - 2020

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Pharmacy Education Unit