This Article was sent to Revolution Pharm. D by Lin Mary George Second Year PHARM D students from National College Of Pharmacy(NCP), Manassery (P.O) Calicut, Kerala, India.
Abstract:
With the remarkable growth of hospitals,new challenges were
raised which necessitated more planing and co-ordination among the healthcare
professionals. There arised the concept of clinical pharmacy which in-turn lead
to the birth of pharm d programme. Initially the programme was introduced in
university of California in the year 1955.within a short while it attained wide
acceptance and popularity. The pharmacy education in India is not much old.
Though Madras medical college started pharmacy educational in 1860,it began as
a university programme only in 1932 at BHU(Banarus Hindu University). In 1999 a
remarkable attempt was made to start pharm d in India by Dr. Revikumar K.G in Trivandrum medical college, kerala. But
unfortunetly it failed. India and other countries came to think seriously about
pharm d when Foreign Pharmacy Graduation Equivalency Committee(FPGEC) in US
made it mandatory that a 5 year pharmacy graduation programme to be eligible to
appear for Foreign Pharmacy Graduation Equivalency examination(FPGEE).All these
prompted the authorities to introduce 6 year regular and 3 year post
baccalaureate Pharm d in the country during the year 2008.
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