Sinhgad College of Pharmacy hosts a series of state level seminars

Sinhgad Technical Education Society’s, Sinhgad College of Pharmacy (SCOP), Pune recently organised a series of seminars, which were sponsored by the University of Pune. A one-day state level seminar on ‘Perspectives and challenges in implementation of credit system in the curriculum of UoP at post graduate level’ was followed by a two-day national level seminar on ‘Pharmacovigilance: Ensuring the Safe Use of Medicines.’ The last seminar was on ‘MDR/ XDR Tuberculosis: A healthcare menace to developing countries’.

The seminar on ‘Perspectives and challenges in implementation of credit system in the curriculum of UoP at post graduate level’ was inaugurated by Dr Sampada Joshi, Controller of Examinations, University of Pune, who was also the guest of honour for the seminar. Experts from various institutions were invited to discuss the different aspects of credit system which is already part of some of the universities in India. It was attended by around 50 faculty and 115 PG students from different colleges.

Dr KN Gujar, Principal, SCOP and Convener of the seminar emphasised on student-centric learning system. He added that higher education in India needs to improve to gain international competitiveness, mobility and employability of students.

Dr Shirolkar S V, Professor DY Patil College of Pharmacy Pune; Dr Milind Wagh, Professor, NDMVP’s College of Pharmacy, Nasik and Professor Samreen Shaikh Allana College of Pharmacy elaborated on choice-based credit system.

In the valedictory session, Dr MD Burande, Principal, Siddhant College of Pharmacy enlightened that the skill in a person will be highlighted by the credit system. The seminar was summarised by Dr NS Ranpise and the vote of thanks was proposed by Shilpa Shrotriya, Coordinator of the seminar.

Pharmacovigilance

The two-day national level seminar on ‘Pharmacovigilance: Ensuring the Safe Use of Medicines.’ was held for creating awareness and providing knowledge of the pharmacovigilance to the budding pharmacists for monitoring adverse drug reactions and ensuring the safe use of medicines in the society.

VM Shende, Co-ordinator of the seminar and Dr KN Gujar welcomed the delegates. Dr Padmakar Pandit, Professor and Head Department of Pharmacology, BJ Medical College, Pune inaugurated the seminar, explained basic concepts of pharmacovigilance and emphasised on the need of pharmacovigilance centres in India. He said physician and pharmacist as members of healthcare team are responsible for monitoring adverse drug reactions and ensuring the drug safety.

Eminent speakers from BJ Medical College, DY Patil Medical College and professors from various pharmacy colleges were invited to deliver the lectures. Topic such as signal detection in pharmacovigilance and details of suspected adverse drug reactions form, risk-benefit assessment in pharmacovigilance, drug development and importance of pharmacovigilance, impact of drug and cosmetics (1st Amendment) Rules, 2013 on clinical research with respect to pharmacovigilance and role of pharmacists in drug safety, were discussed in depth.

RS Sahane, Assistant Professor, SCOP proposed the vote of thanks. Around 80 students representing state and national institutes were present. The seminar evoked a great response from the students, boosted the knowledge of pharmacovigilance and created awareness for monitoring adverse drug reactions and ensuring the safe use of medicines.

World TB Day

In view of World TB Day and to take few initial steps towards the ‘Stop TB programme’, a three-day international seminar on ‘MDR/ XDR Tuberculosis: A healthcare menace to developing countries’ was held.Dr Gujar took the initiative to bring together all healthcare professionals on a common platform and exchange the ideas to fight the problem together.

Dr Dhiman Sarkar, Scientist from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) inaugurated the seminar and briefed about anti-tubercular research and drug discovery initiatives in India to overcome the problem of multi-drug resistance (MDR) and extensive drug resistance (XDR).

Eminent speakers from Indian Institute of Science education and Research (IISER), BJ Medical College, and professors from various institutions were invited to deliver the lectures. Topics such as new drug discovery, novel formulation approaches, microbiological aspects, diagnosis of TB, patient related issues, TB-HIV co-infection, causes, remedies of TB and how the menace can be stopped were discussed in depth.

Priti Jamkar, Professor, SCOP and Coordinator of the programme proposed the vote of thanks. Around 100 students and faculty representing national and international institutes were present. The seminar created awareness amongst all the delegates as well as the invitees towards the ‘Stop TB’ mission.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai