Pharmacy Practice in India: History, SOPs, and Patient Care

History of Pharmacy in India

The genesis of community pharmacy practice in India can be traced back to British India, when the profession was only business oriented and the professionals were called either drug sellers or drug dispensers. Scotch M. Bathgate opened the first chemist shop in Kolkata in 1811, marking the starting point of pharmacy practice in India. Pharmacy education under British rule first began in Madras Medical School in December 1860 with a 2-year course.
  • In Goa, under Portuguese
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TMU Medical School Interview: Questions and Answers

TMU Kira Interview


What motivates you to practice medicine in diverse communities like Peel/Brampton?

  1. Personally, pursuing medicine is not just about treating illness—it’s about fighting for health equity and dismantling the systemic barriers that prevent people from receiving the care they deserve.

  2. This passion stems from my lived experiences growing up in a traditional Moroccan household and becoming acutely aware of the challenges that many culturally-diverse Canadians face in accessing care.

  3. One

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Teen Part-Time Jobs: Benefits and Drawbacks

Teen Part-Time Jobs: A Worthwhile Experience?

Nowadays, teenage students worldwide are increasingly engaging in part-time jobs, especially in developed nations. Although there are different views on this topic, I believe it is a good idea for teenagers to take up part-time jobs while they are students. They can learn about responsibility, punctuality, the value of money, and how to work as a member of a team.

Developing Responsibility and Punctuality

Students can learn to be responsible and observe

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Key Definitions in Workplace Safety and Processes

Process: A set of resources and activities that transform, adding value, inputs into outputs.

Sub-Process: A set of activities that can be disaggregated from a process and constitute a community that meets the definition of a process.

Risk: The combination of the probability and the result(s) of the occurrence of a hazardous event.

Safety: Conditions and factors affecting the physical integrity of employees, temporary workers, contractors, visitors, and any other person in the workplace.

Workplace:

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Understanding Aging: Health in the Elderly

Understanding the Aging Process

The aging process, even in healthy elderly individuals, involves functional and morphological alterations. These changes exist on a spectrum between normal and pathological, with an unstable balance of work and functional adaptation to their real capabilities (Pietro de Nicola).

Characteristics of the Elderly

The elderly present with the following:

  • Some diseases are specific to their age.
  • Diseases that typically occur at an earlier age manifest differently, with a higher
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Expert Systems: Key Concepts and Development

Expert Systems

Expert Systems are computer software applications that:

  • Emulate human experts.
  • Deal with small, well-defined domains of expertise.
  • Are able to solve real-world problems.
  • Are able to act as cost-effective consultants.
  • Can explain the reasoning behind any solutions they find.
  • Should be able to learn from experience.

Definition of Expert Systems

An expert system is a system that employs human knowledge captured in a computer to solve problems that ordinarily require human expertise (Turban).

It’

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