Dedicated to Education Practice of Hospital, Clinical and Community Pharmacy The practice-oriented subjects in pharmacy curriculum-hospital, clinical and community pharmacy-are taught in the penultimate and the final years of D. Pharm., BPharm and MPharm (Pharmacy Practice) courses.
The basic knowledge of the subjects is needed, and is essential, to understand the principles apropos to the distribution of the prescribed and over-the-counter medicines to the nurse, patients and their representatives with prudent counselling. This book is unique as it presents a window to the reader, vis-à-vis the scope and applications of the concept of clinical pharmacy in hospital and community settings and apprises of several recent approaches towards better health care.
Salient Features
Provides recapitulation of the subject matter through relevant revision questions
Mohd. Aqil is Assistant Professor at Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. He has 16 years` experience of teaching and research in pharmaceutics and pharmacy practice. Having completed his PhD in pharmaceutics from Jamia Hamdard in 2002, he has supervised 4 PhD theses and 20 MPharm dissertations. He has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals and has co-authored five books. He has presented his research at several national and international conferences. He has been granted two Indian patents and is a life member of several professional organizations. He was a recipient of the Scientist of the Year Award for the year 2006. He is the editor of the Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences. He was a visiting scientist to the School of Pharmacy, London, under the International Exchange of Scientists Programme of Indian National Science Academy and the Royal Society, UK, in 2006 and was also a recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for a post-doctoral research assignment at the University of Queensland, Australia. in 2008.
