E-DRUG: New beginning to promote research in pharmacy practice & community medicine
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Dear readers,
Heartiest greetings to all fellow academicians, practicing
pharmacists, physicians, independent researchers and students!
It is indeed a great privilege and an honor for me to be addressing you all
at the launching of the first issue of Journal of Pharmacy Practice
and Community Medicine (JPPCM).
JPPCM aims at facilitating the development of community-based
research, education, and health care services.
The purpose of this journal is to promote excellence in pharmacy practice
and community medicine. JPPCM aims at facilitating
the development of community-based research, education, and health
care services. The purpose of this journal is to promote excellence in
the pharmacy practice and community medicine and closely related
fields.
The current emphasis of the journal includes (but is not
limited to) the following areas:
• Pharmacy Practice (including Clinical Pharmacy, Hospital and Community Pharmacy etc)
• Social Aspects of Pharmacy and community medicine
• Social and Preventive Medicine
• Medical Pharmacology
• Pharmaceutical Health Policy
• Community and Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Patient Management
• Process and outcome research
• Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
• Pharmacovigilance and drug safety
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Pharmaceutical and medical education
• Health promotion, education and health informatics
The field of pharmacy practice and community medicine has grown in the
last few years.
At present, in India, there are about 1500 pharmacy
schools offering Bachelor of Pharmacy program (B.Pharm), and out of
those, 200 pharmacy schools offer Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D).
Scope of employment for pharmacists has changed from conventional jobs
(production and dispensing) to providing pharmaceutical care to
patients.
Furthermore near about 4000 colleges offer medical, nursing and dental
education in India at under and post graduate level, they taught and
promote research in community medicine and medical pharmacology.
Moreover in recent past government of India also open 7 Public Health
Foundation of India (PHFI), the main objective of these institutions
to promote public and community health based research through impart
offer various courses at post graduate level, training and workshops
etc. Bearing in mind this, it is praiseworthy that Indian Academy of
Pharmacists (IAOP) has determined to launch a journal exclusively for
pharmacy practice and community health based studies that will publish
4 issues annually.
JPPCM invites quality articles to build good readership, gain
knowledge and update health professionals with the latest development
in the field. I also invite papers and all area experts to join us as
editorial/reviewers, please your manuscript or cv to
editor.jppcm@gmail.com.
On behalf of the Editorial Board and review members of the Journal of
Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine (JPPCM), I am pleased to
announce the launch of the first issue of JPPCM. All Editorial Board
members of JPPCM are independent academic professors working for
non-for-profit organizations.
Please visit for : http://www.jppcm.org/
Dr. Akram Ahmad
Editor-in-chief
Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine
Akram Ahmad, PharmD, BPharm
Department of Clinical Pharmacy,
UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mob. No.+6-01112285842
Editor-in-chief:
Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine (www.jppcm.org)
Research in Pharmacy and Health Sciences (http://rphsonline.com/)
akram ahmad <akrampharma67@gmail.com>