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Introduction

The department was constituted primarily to prepare the Pharma student aspirants and faculties to acquire the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes for functioning as quality professionals. The department has a team of dedicated faculty members and we have the proactive support of a tertiary care teaching hospital on the same campus. The digital resources we share with the hospital, under the same management, provide a scholarly environment. Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy for achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life. However, pharmacists in India receive their training with a product focus rather than the patient focus. Managing drug therapy, counselling patients on proper use of medications and monitoring drug therapy outcomes have become a major issue in recent times. Patient-centred pharmaceutical practice requires focusing on life-long learning because of the constantly changing medical and regulatory landscape.

Vision

We strive to progress quality of life locally, nationally, and globally by evolving innovative teaching practices, advancing research and practice, and merging true entrepreneurial spirit with care and kindness

Mission

Westfort College of Pharmacy is committed to impart value-based education focused on improving health of mankind through innovative education, pioneering research and interdisciplinary practice development to meet diverse needs of world.

Objectives

The research activity of the department focuses primarily on pharmacist-related patient care. Training covers many aspects that render competence in prescription analysis and interpretation of clinical data. Clinical activities include provision of drug and poison information, adverse drug reaction monitoring, tracking drug-drug and drug-food interactions, reviewing patient medication history, reviewing patient medication orders, patient counselling, medication therapy management, medication error reporting, participation in the community as well as hospital-based health camps, case review meetings and journal club activities.

Department Facilities

  • Department of Pharmacy practice also operates a drug dispensing center along with the Outpatient Pharmacy Department in the two multispecialty hospitals, offering unbiased information to patients, doctors, and fellow professionals. Students are free to access online databases such as Delnet, Edsco and other online services. Department library includes more than 150 references resources, National and international journals covering the entire clinical pharmacy and therapeutics area. .
  • Patient Counselling area
  • Department set up patient counselling area near to the OP for giving drug and disease-related education to the patient. Patient counselling was given to the patients by using patient information leaflets, information cards, and other counselling aids.

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LaboratoryDetails

A well designed and well-furnished workstations to perform hospital and community pharmacy experimental activities. The laboratory has also got sufficient teaching aids for demonstrating experiments with a well developed museum along with the Physiology Lab.

The laboratory is mainly equipped with the following major equipments like

  • Colorimeter
  • Centrifuge
  • Filtration equipment
  • Filling Machine
  • Autoclave sterilizer
  • Sintered glass funnel with complete filtering assemble
  • Small disposable membrane filter for IV admixture filtration
  • Membrane filter
  • Spirometer
  • Microscope
  • Permanent Slides
  • Vacuum pump
  • Oven
  • Hardness Tester
  • PH meter.

Course outcome

  • To learn and develop skills in the Concept of human diseases in terms of epidemiology, Concept of human diseases in terms etiology and Concept of human diseases in terms pathogenies and morphology
  • To understand the Concept of human diseases in terms clinical manifestations. This will also contributes to achieve the goal of preparing the students to comprehend and appreciate the concept of Clinical Pharmacy, Therapeutics, Pharmacology and in hospital and community pharmacy in pharmaceutical care..
  • This will promulgates to achieve the goal of preparing the students for a postgraduate program in pharmacy practice and as well as a job in hospital and community pharmacy areas.

Career Outcome:

The competent professional in the department of Pharmacy Practice can achieve their professional expertise in the both Clinical & Hospital pharmacy departments. They will be competent enough to Monitor drug therapy of patient through medication chart review and clinical review. Such Pharma aspirants would be the better person to obtain medication history interview and counsel the patients as well as Identify and resolve drug related problems, Detect, assess and monitor adverse drug reaction. The department graduation would also facilitates the need of community by providing research scholars at Pharmacotherapeutics, Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacy, Hospital and community Pharmacy as well as Clinical Trials and Pharmacovigilance programs


Current Research Status and Perspective Plan:

Our Perspective plan is to emphasize research Studies in

  • Pharmacoeconomics
  • Population Pharmacokinetics
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Clinical Research
  • Pharmacotherapeutics
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Hospital and Community Pharmacy