[india-drug] National Training Course in Teaching Rational Drug Therapy

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National Training Course in Teaching Rational Drug Therapy, New Delhi,
India, 5th-11th September 2002
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This is a 7 day national course sponsored by the Essential Drugs and
Other Medicines Department, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva,
and organized by the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of
Drugs.  This course will highlight the teaching of rational drug
therapy or the ?P? drug concept using Problem Based Learning as the
format.  
Choosing a drug is often regarded as a matter of knowing what drug to
prescribe.  However, choice as part of clinical reasoning is a complex
process and the best drug is a relative concept.  Medical students who
are not trained adequately in pharmaco-therapeutics will be more
vulnerable to influences that cause irrational prescribing.
In order to provide a systemic approach to teaching of therapeutics and
rational drug use, the concept of ?P? drug has been conceived.  This
system uses a technique to teach analytical deductions of
pharmaco-therapeutics.  It involves logical application of the
knowledge of Pharmacology while choosing a treatment for a patient.

Who should attend this course?
Physicians and pharmacologists from teaching hospitals, who are
interested in improving teaching methodologies -  those in a position
to train medical students and implement the pharmaco-therapy as taught
in this course, in their respective institutions, will be preferred.
Two to three participants from each institution will be selected. 
Middle order teaching faculty who can conduct such programmes in future
will be given preference.

Objective 
The training course will introduce teaching aspects in pharmacology
including aspects of Rational Use of Drugs. It will also evolve an
objective evaluation system.

Design 
The training course will be conducted in English and will consist of
group activities in learning rational drug therapy. This will be useful
in teaching rational drug therapy to undergraduate medical students.
The course is based on "Guide to good prescribing" a WHO publication,
which is being practised in many medical colleges all over the world. 
The training course will be highly participatory in nature. The
resource persons are from India and abroad. They have vast experience
in  teaching pharmaco-therapy and in conducting such workshops.
The course content is divided into
a)	Problem Based Learning as a component of teaching learning
methodology.
b)	Introduction to the concept of choosing a personal selection of
drugs, or the ?P? drug concept.
Methodology for evaluating pharmaco-therapy.

Application  
 This is a WHO sponsored programme organized by DSPRUD and the
WHO-India Essential Drugs Programme. The course fee of Rs 50,000/- per
participant will be met by WHO. This will include tuition fees,
training course materials, shared accommodation, breakfast and lunch.
Participants who do not want shared accommodation will be required to
pay an amount of Rs. 2,000/- per day for single accommodation.
Participants will however, have to make their own arrangements for
travel expenses through their institution/organization/university or
any other source. The course does not include incidental expenses like
laundry, postage, phone calls etc. 

Deadline for application
Application forms duly filled in should be forwarded by the respective
institutions to reach the Organizing Secretary not later than July 5,
2002.  The applications should be sent to 
	Organizing Secretary,
	Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs,
National Institute of Immunology,
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,
 New Delhi-110067 
Email: dsprud@satyam.net.in
Tel: 	011- 6179638 and 011 - 6165776 
Fax: 	011- 6162125




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