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May 27, 2018
The College of Pharmacy in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi organized a Symposium on “Evidence-Based Clinical Practice” on May 5, 2018 at Dusit Thani hotel in Dubai, UAE. The symposium included a competition on ‘Critical appraisal of published literature’ in which two Gulf Medical University College of Pharmacy...
May 10, 2018
On April 9, 2018 the College of Pharmacy conducted a Career advising session for its PharmD students. Most students and Faculty members were present during the session. The Dean of the College addressed the students and talked about building their CV and their profile starting from their first semester in the College. A strong CV and a...
May 10, 2018
On May 09, 2018, Dr. Kishore Gnana Sam, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Associate Dean of the College of Pharmacy presented a seminar on “Supporting evidence-based prescribing decisions” as a part of the College’s seminar series. During his presentation, he indicated that medicines should be provided to patients by...
May 6, 2018
On May 5, 2018, the College of Pharmacy organized a Symposium on “Evidence Based Clinical Practice” at Dusit Thani hotel in Dubai. The speakers were from the Gulf Medical University’s College of Pharmacy and from Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. There were over 100 participants including Pharmacy practitioners, academic staffs and...
April 8, 2018
On the eve of World Health Day, April 7, 2018, final year Doctor of Pharmacy students organized a patient education program at Kenz Hypermarket in Hamidiya, Ajman. This event was organized by the College of Pharmacy in collaboration with Thumbay Group Pharmacies and the Nursing Department at Gulf Medical University. Pharmacy students...
April 1, 2018
On March 26, 2018, the Public Health Policy and Licenses Sector of the Ministry of Health issued a letter to Gulf Medical University with the following message: “Based on the meeting of the Higher Committee for the standardization of Licenses, it was decided that the graduates of the clinical pharmacy program (PharmD) will be...
March 29, 2018
On 28 March, 2018, the College of Pharmacy convened its most recent Advisory Board meeting. Agenda items included strategic planning, curriculum enhancements to the current PharmD program and a proposal for MPharm in Clinical Pharmacy program. Among the external advisory participants were, Dr.Rania El-Lababidi from Cleveland Clinic,...
March 28, 2018
On March 27, 2018, Dr. Shabaz Mohiuddin, Lecturer and Preceptor at Gulf Medical University, College of Pharmacy presented on ‘Best practices in experiential education’ as a part of the faculty development seminar at the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Shabaz introduced the core components of experiential training, and discussed the...
March 22, 2018
On March 21, 2018, Dr. Rehab Elsayed, the Pharmacy Manager at Thumbay Hospital, Ajman delivered a lecture titled ‘Medication errors’ to the faculty members and Pharmacy students at College of Pharmacy, Gulf Medical University (GMU). The presentation began by introducing the concept of medication errors and understanding of the...
March 16, 2018
During the International Patient Safety Week celebrations held in Thumbay Hospital Ajman on March 15, 2018, three final year PharmD students Jesty Reji, Afreen Firdaus and Sonita Anwari won the “Best Poster Presentation” award. The students displayed a poster on safe use and storage of medication at home. As summer is...