Editorial-

EDITORIAL

Recently I had an opportunity to visit Tan- Tock Seng hospital & National health care group of pharmacy, Singapore. Tan- Tock Seng hospital is one of Singapore's largest tertiary multi-disciplinary hospital with 170 years of pioneering Medicare care and development. National Health Care Group of Pharmacy, a leader in public health care mainly focuses on primary, intermediate and long term care settings, They also successfully manage the pharmacy services in all integrated network of National health care group poly clinics with more than 40 nursing homes.

Visit to these two leading health care providers in Singapore was a true learning experience for me and for our students. Singapore's health care and pharmacy is well advanced like any other developed countries and the organizers have given us a very good insight about the history and development and work flow of various pharmacy settings in Singapore.

We attended the two day conference on international forum on quality and safety in health care, hosted by British Medical Journal (BMJ). We presented two Research posters in the international forum, representing Alshifa college of Pharmacy and KIMS Alshifa hospital. More than 1500 delegates from across the world participated in the mega event and our students were really excited about their first international exposure as they could interact with many researchers from different walks of life.   Our visit to the two health care institutions have given us a valuable insight on how to integrate technology successfully in tertiary care, intermediate and long term care settings. A detail of the same is added to this issue of the newsletter.

Alshifa college of Pharmacy is the very first college in Kerala to start Pharm D course in the year 2010 and our proud first batch of Pharm D Students has graduated very recently. The same has been covered in this issue. Our newsletter includes articles from Dr. Ernst Anderson, Dr. Mohanta, Dr. Thakur .  Dr.Tariq Sainudeen, a research assistant from Canada has addressed the future pharmacists, Titled- Letter to Future Pharmacist, which is presented in a unique style, quoting his amazing experiences.

Department of Pharmacy practice has launched N number of resource materials including quick review of clinical research, patient counseling , antibiotic formulary, hospital pharmacy and internship log book etc. which further strengthens the department’s academic output. Patient counseling mobile app, another major milestone of our department, which is first of its kind, has been released during the graduation day. This herculean task was brilliantly done by Mr. Geo Thomson, under the guidance of Mr. Linu Mohan, Asst. Professor. I congratulate and applaud the entire team for their great effort.

Let me take this opportunity to thank Mr. P Unneen, Dr Abdulla Khaleel, Mr Suhail Hamza,Dr. Suriaprakash T.N.K and the entire management crew and faculty for their continuous encouragement and appreciation towards the roaring success of the department.

With many robust plans for a better & bright future, our journey continues.... Happy Reading and Merry Christmas.. 

Dr Dilip.C

Editor in Chief, Shifaclinpharm quarterly news letter,

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