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September 22, 2022
On 22nd September 2022, GMU Pharmacy Students’ Association (GPSA) organized a bake sale as their first fundraising event. The aim of the bake sale was to raise funds for the association’s activities, as well as celebrate world pharmacists’ day. The event took place at the GMU foyer from 10 am till 2 pm. During those four...
September 16, 2022
On the 16th of September, the College of Pharmacy contributed to the ‘Preceptorship Development Workshop’” organized by the College of Nursing Gulf Medical University & Emirates Health Services (EHS) Training and Development Centre. The program provides tanning for 200 EHS Registered nurses & 40 Thumbay hospital nurses...
September 14, 2022
As part of the clinical seminars series that GMU College of Pharmacy provides to its APPE students, Dr. Rami Diab, IV and Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Pharmacist in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City-Ajman (SKMC-A), was invited to deliver a live session titled: “Parenteral Nutrition: From Theory To Practice.” During this seminar, Dr. Diab...
September 12, 2022
Dalia Al Saeedy, a student in the Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development program at the College of Pharmacy, has successfully defended her thesis titled “Modulating the Polymorphic UGT1A1 Gene to Enhance Captothecin’s Anti-Colorectal Effect”. The examination committee was led by Dr. Ahmed Al-Abd, Professor of...
September 12, 2022
PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) students attended orientation sessions for the 10 months intensive journey of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE). APPE consists of 6 compulsory and 4 elective rotations, with the Clinical seminar being longitudinal throughout the rotations. Beforehand, Introductory sessions were conducted by...
September 11, 2022
On Sunday 11th September 2022, around 30 students from 8 international institutions participated in the orientation session for “The Second International Interprofessional Case Competition I2C2 “. This is an annual multi-institutional event where students from different health professions work together virtually in small teams with...
September 8, 2022
Students joining the class of the 2028 PharmD program attended their orientation day on September 8, 2022, at Gulf Medical University. They were welcomed by the faculty and teaching staff of the College of Pharmacy and Gulf Medical University. The orientation program started with an address to the students by the Dean of the College...
August 29, 2022
Gulf Medical University in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), celebrated the completion of the first cohort of its Training of Trainers (ToT) program earlier this year. The first of its kind program in the United Arab Emirates which is an initiative of the Centre of Humanitarian...
August 26, 2022
On 26th August, Thumbay Labs organized a healthcare outreach campaign that aimed to conduct COVID-19 PCR tests to returning students and teachers in more than 180 schools all over the United Arab Emirates. More than 20 PharmD students across all years of GMU College of Pharmacy volunteered this 3-days event. Students were trained on how to...
August 23, 2022
Over the period of 10 months, September 2021 – July 2022, GMU College of Pharmacy 5th year students passed through intensive training and preparation before taking the final Prescribing Skills Assessment exam on August 23, 2022. The Prescribing Skills Assessment (PSA) is conducted every year in the UK, through the British Pharmacological...