Review Article
Year: 2023 | Month: February | Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 705-713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230286
Modern Pharmaceutical Education and Its Root in India
Sharon Susan Raj1, Dr. Balakeshav Ramaiah2, Saidheer. D3
1,3Department Of Pharm. D, 2Department of Pharmacy Practice
1,2Karnataka College of Pharmacy, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, India
3Vikas College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
Corresponding Author: Sharon Susan Raj
ABSTRACT
I am not afraid of weapons but I fear pens and its action said by Napoleon the Great validates the worth of education. But the perspectives of education have undergone morphing with times and needs. Pharmacy education had also taken up the roads that no navigator took. Since human life began, nature was an open textbook for all curious ones. Though the word," pharmacy" originated in India during the British reign, Indian land always had tales of medicinal preparations to say from ancestry. But the dawn of modern pharmacy began in the late nineteenth century. Since then, the field has undergone morphological as well as technological advancements. Even mars wasn’t the limit for the growth seen in pharmacy education during the last century. From its initial step as a pharmaceutical shop in 1811 to the establishment of diploma programs in the late nineteenth century in madras medical college and its rise as a university, where the department of Pharmaceutical Engineering Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi holds its prime position being the first Pharmaceutical university to be launched in India in 1937. Now it spreads like the vascular system to different realms of a healthy society.
But, just like each cell in our body has oncogenes for growth and tumor suppressor genes for retardation, every efficient system needs to be timely regulated, which is seen through the rules brought into the table as the pharmacy act in 1948 and the amendments made later by the regulatory bodies like PCI, which was formed in 1953. A new calling was also made into pharmacy education with the starting of Pharm.D by PCI and the Government of India in 2008. Being on the shore of Pharmacy education, a boat full of opportunities waiting for the updated Pharmacy scholars.
Since its origin to this day, the pharmaceutical education system had evolved and is still evolving to reach the peak of excellence and it is a daily goal that can be achieved only if proper regulations and the use of advanced technologies go hand in hand with the growing needs of the health care. As an individual, let each pharmacy graduate make this an agenda to go forward and grow upward with the wings given by pharmacy education.
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacy Colleges, B. Pharm, M. Pharm, MBA in Pharmacy, Ph.D. in Pharmacy.
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