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The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is in the process of setting up a Pharmacist Registration and Tracking System with details of all 1.2 million  pharmacists from across the country, maintained on a live register. The system will facilitate easy verification of any pharmacist anywhere in India by  any agency. It will also provide valuable information for data analysis that would help predict the future and scope of the profession, going forward. PCI  further intends to revolutionize pharmacy education by revamping its website through creation of a student portal to make learning material available  online and free of cost for any student across the country. This was shared by Prof (Dr.) B Suresh, President Pharmacy Council of India, Vice  Chancellor, JSS University, Mysore, in his keynote address as Chief Guest at a two-day Pharmacy National Conference that commenced at  Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC) Landran.To improve industry academia interface the regulator would soon be providing Post Graduate students of pharmacy the option of completing one year  of their degree course in industry training or in research, added Prof (Dr.) Suresh.The regulator also intends utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to strengthen interface between faculty, students, the industry and academia and devise  means to chart out the future direction of the profession to make it an attractive career option”, said Prof (Dr.) Suresh. 

Elaborating on the using AI to  strengthen pharmacy education Prof (Dr.) Suresh said, “PCI is working with NIC to put together a strong IT architecture to seamlessly help institutions  to upload information, get approvals, detect faculty movement, update information about latest research in the pharmacy field to facilitate constant  knowledge updation of the students and faculty alike.Prof (Dr.) K Chinnaswamy, President, The Indian Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (IACP), Chennai, was the Guest of Honour at the event. Also  gracing the occasion was Prof. (Dr.) A.R. Rao, Director NIPER, Mohali. Over 500 delegates comprising students, faculty members and researchers  from Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh are participating in this National Conference on ‘Role of Pharmacists  in Academia and Research’.The two-day national conference will be featuring panel discussions on a range of topics related to the theme of conference. The first day of the  conference began with an enlightening talk on ‘What is Ailing Research?’ by Dr C S Gautam, followed by talks from distinguished speakers Prof. A.K.  Chakaraborti and Dr Deepika Bansal from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali. A souvenir was also unveiled  to mark the occasion.

via 5 diriya news