AL SHIFA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Al Shifa College of Pharmacy, which is a green campus, run by Shifa Medicare trust, having various organizations and institutions, is the realization of the dream of civil engineer, Mr. P. Unneen. Managing trustee SIMS, a great visionary which strived hard to establish, college of international repute in his own native village. The college is located on 40 acres at Kizhattoor village in Perinthalmanna taluk, of Malappuram dist, Kerala, with landscaped gardens and wilderness, where students can interact with nature. Aesthetically designed buildings with cheerful colors, spacious laboratories, classrooms, conference hall, computer lab and a very good digital library with International journals, constitute the infrastructure. The college also has a meditation room with modern facilities.

SIMS promoters comprises, Mr. P. Unneen,-Managing Trustee, K.T Abdul Rasaque- Secretory, Mr. P.K Mohammed Haji –Treasurer, Dr M.K Ibrahim- Trustee, Mr. Pilakkal Hamza –Trustee and Dr Ahmed Ameen- Trustee governs the entire organization under SIMS.

Al Shifa College of Pharmacy known for aggressive teaching in pharmacy, is well established and running into 7^th year since inception under the dynamic leadership ofProf. Dr.R. Saraswathi, M.Pharm, PhD, a renowned personality in the field of academics and research with fifteen years of experience having numerous patents. The college has all the potential required for conduct of pharmacy subjects as per AICTE and PCI norms. B.Pharm was started in the year 2002 and diploma in pharmacy in the year 2004. The seats in this institute are filled up way in advance. The college is affiliated to University of Calicut. Within a short span of seven years the college has performed extremely well in academics and other developmental activities. Faculty comprises various experienced and committed teachers from industry and college.

P.G course (M.Pharm – Pharmaceutics & Pharmacy Practice.)

The college has commenced PG program in Pharmaceutics & pharmacy practice. With an intake of 10 students on 24^th, March 2008 and is recognized by AICTE and approved by education department Govt of Kerala. Approval for M.Pharm Pharmaceutics from AICTE and Calicut University was obtained in the academic year 2007-08.

Calicut University has identified this institute as potential centre to start P.G programme with the available facilities and resources. The entire focus of the institute concentrate on welfare of its students updating the teachings learning procedures, upgrading itself to modern facility. The institute is making arrangement to have placement tie up with leading pharma corporates for providing immediate job opportunities for students completing B.Pharm & M.pharm. Fee structure of the course is moderate. The college has gained well reputation in South Kerala and has many laurels to the credit in academics, sports and cultural activities.

Facilities..... at a glance

1. We have a full fledged pharmacy practice department attached to the Alshifa hospital, Perinthalmanna for conducting preclinical toxicological studies and field based population disease oriented studies with respect to Malaria, Tuberculosis and other relevant diseases in collaboration with Alshifa College of pharmacy.

2. We have full fledged analytical laboratory to conduct analytical studies and therapeutic drug monitoring.

3. We have provision for conducting stability studies as per ICH guidelines for various drug formulations.

4. We are one of the few colleges in India which has been selected for the open source drug discovery (OSDD) by CSIR. and has been approved for conducting research in tuberculosis will be receiving grant shortly from them.
5. Applied for Ayush and the preliminary presentation at New Delhi were done by our Director during this year and we are waiting for the approval and grant.

6. We have the first Drug information centre ( DIC) in malappuram district siuated in Alshifa hospital with trained staff and students who are manning the drug information centre round the clock to cater the patients of who come from different walks of life.

7. We have digitalised about 400 plants in and around malappuram dist having excellent herbal value, some of which are extinct and unknown species.

.8. We have done the work on adverse drug reaction monitoring in Perinthalmanna, Irrational drug use in calicut with respect to 120 patients, prevalence and cure of tuberculosis in Malappuram Dist, Pilot study on Chickengunya in Malappuram dt, Pilot study on neuro tuberculosis in malappuram Dist

. We have experience in tackling Tuberculosis, Chickengunya, Diabetes, Hypertension, and many in pipeline..We have experience in drugs and formulations including the testing and evaluation of formulations. We are also helping our Alshifa hospital who sent various types of formulations including ayurvedic for testing/potency/toxicological studies/ strength of the formulations that is given to the patient and its outcome is being assessed accordingly by our team of experts in our institute.

We have various departments like dept of Pharmaceutics, Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology, Phytochemistry, pharmaceutical analysis and pharmacy practice. We have expert and experienced staff who are highly academic inclined and we do consultation for industries and hospitals.

We provide services to Alshifa hospital. We have signed an MOU with central leather research institute, Chennai for the masters in pharmacy (Pharmaceutics) project and three students are doing the work in CLRI Chennai.

We have conducted staff development programme (SDP) sponsored by all India council of technical education New Delhi and received a grant of rupees two lakhs. The programme was conducted between august 3^rd 2009 to Aug 14^th 2009. the invited speakers were about 23 who spoke on various topics and the delegates were from south India -

our institute has been approved as a research centre by CSIR, OSDD (OPEN SOURCE DRUG DISCOVERY)
DILIP.C
 Asst professor, pharmacy practice
Alshifa college of pharmacy
perinthalmanna