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World's first and biggest Clinical Pharmacy Free Book Loaner Library to be opened in Karnataka soon

Our Bureau, Mumbai | Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 08:00 Hrs [IST]

The Indian American Pharmacist, a non-profit organisation with an aim to promote the optimal medication use that improves health, wellness and quality of life, is all set for the grand opening of world's first biggest clinical pharmacy free book loaner library in Karnataka in the first week of February 2016. It will provide American textbooks of Applied Therapeutics and Drug Facts and Comparison to all Pharm.D students across India, prepare them to face the future challenges in pharmaceutical care in India. Indian students will hugely benefit from the America's 60 years of clinical pharmacy experience.

Registration is open now for all Pharm.D students across India on the web portal www.indianamericanpharmacist.com

“Doctor of pharmacy was started in India in 2008 and currently there are more than 125 colleges and students all across India to benefit from this library. We are also in the process of developing world's first and only one page crucial health and medication record which gives the current clinical picture of the patients which helps majority of patient population when they visit their doctor and currently there is no such record available,” said Basavaraj Banapur Bpharm. RPh.,(MS, MBA), president of Indian American Pharmacist.

“We are making the doctors' job easy. Indian American Pharmacist will train all pharmacy students across India and Karnataka State Pharmacy Council is teamed up to train registered pharmacists in Karnataka to provide access to this software to create electronic medication records. Karnataka is going to be the first state in India to benefit from it and this is free of service on demand,” Banapur said.

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Sandip ashok Patil	Feb 27, 2016 9:24 AM
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Bhagaan ps	Jan 24, 2016 2:39 AM
Sheshagiri gandasi, This is accessible to all pharmacists and can be used according to their capability keel. No need for hospital facility to use this as patients are omnipotent.!

Bhagavan ps

Jan 20, 2016 2:44 PM

When everything that is of US from rocket to potato chips are adopted with pride in India , why not pharmacy professional service? After all it is to support the clinical system for the patient safety.

I have been discussing the issue with my US friend as well as with faculties, administrators , doctors and some policy makers in India.

It is the faculty and intra- phalrma agencies expressing inabilities, helplessness due to being grooved to the prevailing system and schedules.

Result: one professor produces another professor! 'Pharmacist' and 'Pharmacy profession' are lost and untraceable!

This Indian in US who has 6 decades of experience in academe and clinical pharmacy and thankfully has an inbuilt passion and keen interest to develop the profession in India through capacity building exercise in all pharmacists D pharm to PharmD.

The Clinical Pharmacy software is useful to undergraduates and graduates to monitor and study and use in their practice and to PharmDs to stu

Sheshagiri Gandasi

Jan 20, 2016 11:21 AM

This is a welcome move in view of the sorry state of affairs in most of the educational institutions providing PharmD education, not bothering much about the need for Quality Education. It would have been more appropriate had the facility of free access been open to all Pharmacy students and professionals in the field of Healthcare who would have been benifitted by the experience of American Pharmacists in Clinical Pharmacy Practice.