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Medicine Information Centre
The Medical Information Center started during the year of April
2003 in NIPER. It has started functioning with start up grant under
the support of "Higher Education Link Scheme" supported by DFID
and managed by the British Council. The Department of Pharmacy Practice
managing and running the center, master's program started at NIPER
in 2002 in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy, University
of London, UK. The Medicine Information Center's mission is to provide
a central and unbiased source of current information and specific
responses about medicines and medicine-based therapy to the healthcare
providers and community regarding the related issues.
The objectives of MIC Follows
To provide an structured database of specialized
information on medicines and therapeutics to meet the drug information
needs of practitioners;
And to provide accurate and unbiased medicines information service
to the pharmacists, physicians and other health care professionals
in the hospital and community;
They will educate
pharmacy students to serve as effective providers of medicines information;
They promote patient care through rational use of medicines. In
its initial phase operation, MIC provides queries from healthcare
professionals and subsequently, queries from the community will
also be entertained. Apart form queries received by the clinicians
the center provides training to the M.Pharm i.e. Pharma Practice.
At present the centre is open eight hours a day between 9 am to
5.30 pm.
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