Pharmacy Practice is one of the recent branches of pharmacy which was designed to develop a new generation of pharmacist working in a clinical setup along with physician and other paramedics in-order to promote the patient Health Care, where the pharmacist focus on optimizing medication use, Prevent medication errors, adverse drug reaction (ADRs), promoting health and preventing disease, rather than traditionally focusing on manufacturing and dispensing of drugs.
Academic Acitivity
Our College has an MoU with 750 bedded Karpagam Medical College Hospital, which is one kilometre away from the college and providing the following
Clinical Based Activities
Ward round participation
Drug information services
Treatment chart review
Medication history interview
Patient counseling services
Medication error reporting
Adverse reaction reporting
Prescription auditing
Journal club
Community camps
Awareness program
Preparation and implementation of patient information aids
Newsletter publication
Continuing pharmacy education program
Drug Information Center (DIC)
Drug information and patient counselling centre is functioning under the Department of pharmacy practice at the hospital. This centre has subscribed Micromedex 2.0 Clinical Knowledge Software for the following activities:
In-depth drug information, including patient counselling notes.
Complete drug interaction
IV incompatibility
Disease management solution
Dose calculators/Drug Identification
This Center provides consultative service to health care professionals and patients. Unbiased, comprehensive and relevant information regarding the drugs and the therapeutics as well as other related health care work is provided to the physician and other health care professional to support better patient care.
