SCOPE AND EVALUATION OF

PHARMACY AND
INFORMATION RESOURCES IN
PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL
SCIENCE
Vasavi Madurwar ( Totawar) Guided by:
PG 1st year 2018-19 Vd. Mukund Dive
Rasashastra and B.K (Professor)
BMAM, Nagp Vd. Sneha Kubde
(H.O.D & Asso. Prof.)
Pharmacy is..
the health science that links medical science with chemistry and it is
charged with the discovery, production, control, disposal, safe and
effective use of drugs.

The practice of pharmacy requires excellent knowledge of drugs, their

mechanism of action, side effects, interactions, mobility and toxicity.

It also includes collection,identification purification,isolation, synthesis,

standardization, and quality control of Medicinal substances.
Pharmacist
A health-care professional licenced to engage in pharmacy with duties
including dispensing prescription drugs , monitoring drug interactions,
administering vaccines and counselling patients regarding the effects and
proper usage of drugs and dietary supplements.
Medicines

● Allopathy Medicines
● Ayurvedic Medicines
● Homeopathy medicines
● Unani Medicines
● Biotechnology Medicines
Pillars of Pharmaceutical Sciences

● Pharmaceutical Chemistry
● Pharmaceutics
● Pharmacology
● Pharmacognosy
● Pharmaceutical Analysis
Drug Regulatory Affairs
INTERNATIONAL

United State of Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)

Word Health Organisation (WHO)

INDIA

Government of India Directory of Health and Family Welfare

Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Scope of Pharmacy
The scope of pharmacy practice includes compounding and
dispensing medications, and it also related to more modern services like
patient care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety
and efficacy, and providing drug information.

Scope of pharmacy can be elaborated in the following terms

1. Education
2. Job Opportunities
3. Licensure/ Licence Requirement
4. National/ International Organisations
5. Evaluation of Pharmacy
1. Education

(1) D Pharm ( 2 years diploma course)

(2) B Pharm ( 4 years Degree course)
(3) M Pharm ( 2 years Master degree course)
(4) Phd in Pharmacy
(5) Bsc Pharmacy
(6) Msc Pharmacy
2. Job Opportunities

(1) Community Pharmacy

(2) Hospital Pharmacy
(3) Industrial Pharmacy
(4) Internal Pharmacy
(5) Pharmaceutical Pharmacy
(6) Government Services
3. Licensure/ Licence Requirement
The Practice of Pharmacy in any given state is regulated by the state and
board of pharmacy. Within that state minimum requirements are of an
applicant for licensure qualification in pharmaceutics, practical experiences,
age, good moral characters etc.
4. National /International Organisations

(1) Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA)

(2) Associate of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APT I)
(3) American Pharmaceutical Association (APA)
(4) American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
(5) American Society of Consultant pharmacists (ASCP)
5. Future of Pharmacy

In coming decades pharmacists are expected to become more integral

within the health-care system rather than simply dispensing medication.
Pharmacists are increasingly expected to be compensated for their patient care
skills.

In few countries like Australia, U.K the, pharmacists have certain limited
prescribing rights.
Evaluation of Pharmacy
(1) The drug taking Animal- Primitive Man Homosapiens
(2) Prehistoric Pharmacy Archeological evidence
(3) Ancient
(4) Apothecaries of 17th century
(5) Pharmaceutical Society of the Mid 1800
(6) Late 1840
(7) Pharmacy act 1948
Pharmacy as a Carrier

● Pharmaceutical Industry in India is the Worldʼs third largest in terms of volume.

● Only industry to record profits and create jobs even in Global Slowdown in the
2003-2009.
● Second only to Indian Defence Sector in terms of Research & Development
spending.
Pharmacist (Job Opportunity/ Work Areas)
Practice Settings Industry Other Settings

1) Community 1) Production 1) Academics

2) Hospital 2) Quality Assurances (i) Teaching

3) Clinical 3) Reseach & Development (ii) Research

4) Quality Control 2) Clinical Research

5) Packaging 3) Regulatory

6) Regulatory

7) Sales & Marketing

 OPPORTUNITY HORIZONS

JOB(B.PHARM/ M.PHARM) BUSINESS( B. PHARM)

● Government Organisations ● Own Industry

● Pharma Industries ● Own distribution agency or Pharmacy shop
● Hospital Pharmacists
● Research Institutes
● Food and Cosmetic Industries
● Clinical Pharmacy
● Clinical Research Org.
● Community Pharmacy
● Pharma Marketing
● Academic Jobs(Teaching)
 Information resources in Pharmacy &
Pharmaceutical Science
Need -

Practitioners , Pharmacists & Pharmaceutical scientists have a constant need for

reliable current information regarding drugs, therapies, diseases, related to laws….. Etc.

As such they must be able to find & identify different types of information in a
variety of formats and media like radio, television, News paper, journals, Internet,
articles etc.
Information Resources
1. Primary Literature- Scientific Journals and articles
2. Secondary Literature - Textbooks, digests
3. Pharmaceutical Databases -MEDLine, EMBASE
4. Pharmacopoeias - API
5. Formularies- AFI
6. Special Information Sources( DDR) SIS
1. Primary Literature
Scientific journals are the primary literature of pharmaceutical sciences
through which scientific researches are reported , evaluated, and
disseminated.

These are produced in printed as well as electronic form. Likewise-

1) JAMA- Journal Of American Medical Association

2) European journal of Pharmacology
3) Journal of Pharmacy Teaching
4) Jouranal of Pharmaceutical marketing & management
2. Secondary literature
Competitions comments and digests of the primary scientific literature are
referred to as secondary literature.

Other secondary sources include drug monograph, review articlesand

various textbooks written for a professional author like:-

Remington - The science & practice of pharmacy.

Lackona - Industrial Pharmacy

Goodman - The pharmacological basis of Therapeutics.

3. Pharmaceutical Databases
Online Databases : Because of their convenience & obliquity this is one of the first
choice to consult for locating pharmaceutical literature of the hundreds of databases
available.

Particularly internet websites to pharmacists & pharmaceutical scientists - MEDLINE,

EMBASE, BIOSIS, Chemical abstracts, International pharmaceutical abstracts.

MEDLINE- MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine(NLM) premier

bibliographic database that contains more than 25 million references to journal
articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature
of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM (MeSH). MEDLINE is the
online counterpart to MEDLARS (MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval
System) that originated in 1964.
4. Pharmacopoeias
Pharmacopoeias include information regarding official Standards for
purity, strength , quality & analysis of drugs as well as these therapeutic uses.
Some of them are

1) Indian Pharmacopoeia
2) API - Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India
3) British Pharmacopoeia
4) European Pharmacopoeia
5) International Pharmacopoeia
5. Formularies
Formularies are the recipe books for making drugs. It also contains
informations for a list of medicines regarding the safety and efficacy of drugs ,
side effects and contra indications.
THANK YOU