[india-drug] One Week Training Course In Patient Counseling (1)

["Sampada Patvardhan" <dicmspc@yahoo.co.in>]

One Week Training Course In Patient Counseling (1)
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One of the most important professional roles of a licensed pharmacist is patient education, commonly referred to Counseling. Counseling is beneficial to both patients and pharmacists. Communicating with patients is an important way to avoid medication errors and to help patients understand the intended effects as well as the side effects of their drugs. Accordingly, one week training course in Patient counseling was designed to educate the pharmacist at the counter.
   
For the first time in India, The One Week Training Course in Patient Counseling was held at Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council, Mumbai from 5th February?2007 to 10th February?2007 for 4 hours everyday in the afternoon session. The course was organized by Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council?s Drug Information Centre in collaboration with Maharashtra State Chemists and Druggists Association (MSCDA). The professional assistance for this course was taken from the Indian Pharmaceutical Association?s Community Pharmacy division. Batch of 30 pharmacists from Mumbai attended this first batch of training course in patient counseling. All participants were pharmacists from the community (retail) pharmacy shops. The second batch held at Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council, Mumbai from 12th March?2007 to 17th March?2007 for 4 hours everyday in the morning session. 

The third batch is underway this week thus making nearly 100 community pharmacists trained to take up the Patient
 Counseling task in drug stores in confident manner.
   
One week after the successful completion of the course, participants have undergone theory and viva exam and the certificate of the course will be sent only to pharmacists who have passed the exams. The participants were very happy about the contents of the course and were willing to participate in future for such type of training.
   
For further queries contact:
Dr.Sampada Patvardhan 
Director, Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council?s Drug Information Centre  E.S.I.S. Hospital Compound, L.B.S. Marg, Mulund (W), Mumbai-400 080  
Phone: 25930607  Telefax: 25684291/25684418  
e-mail: dicmspc@yahoo.co.in  OR dicmspc@gmail.com