ADVANCING PHARMACY PRACTICE IN INDIA:
THE NEXT GENERATION PHARMACIST”
The pharmacy profession in India is
under profound transformation with the Pharmacy Practise education programme
focusing on creating a new genus of Pharmacists who are clinically oriented and
can associate with the other health care professionals to provide fuel for
keeping abreast with the rapidly evolving global scenario. This calls for the
co-operation and synchrony among the multitude areas of expertise. This
necessitates for an opportunity to establish collaboration among the
think-tanks of the profession so as to meet the over-whelming needs of the hour
from both the patients as well as the medical population.
The inaugural convention of the Indian
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy & Indian Congress of Pharmacy
Practice-2014 with the theme “Advancing pharmacy practice in India: the next
generation pharmacist” was held at Hotel Sheraton, Bangalore on 21st&
22nd February 2014 as a platform for interaction of the new breed of
clinically-oriented Pharmacists to
interact with the resource personals from across the globe and to equip them
with clinical experience, cross-disciplinary skills, critical thinking, problem
solving skills and managerial skills.
The event was flagged off with the
Inaugural session where the delegates as well as the resource personals were
warmly welcomed by Dr.B.Suresh, President, PCI and Dr. K.Chinnaswamy ,
President, IACP. The colossus and the grandeur of the seminar really took us by
surprise unless we were already surprised with the number of delegates that
turned out.
Even though the brochure of the seminar,
which we had received at our colleges were surely an evidence of the magnitude
of what was coming, it was nothing compared to the first-hand experience in the
midst of the proceedin
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