Need to update Parma education stressed

Need to update Parma education stressed

Chennai: Drug Controller General of India M.Venkateswaralu on Saturday stressed the need for updating the syllabus for pharmaceutical studies, which would make the graduates suitable for employment in the industry.

Participating in the two-day national conference of the Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association here, he expressed concern over the lack of updation of knowledge among the pharmacy graduates.

“The industry has an enormous potential for growth with eight percent rate annually in global scenario, while it is 10 percent per annum in India. But Parma students are employed just to fulfill the mandatory obligations and the companies are satisfied even with any science graduate. Our students should get jobs not because of mandatory rules, but for their efficiency,” he said.

To achieve this, there should be interaction between academics; industry and regulators, so that any graduate would come out with the abilities what the industry really needed.

He also wanted academics to revise the curriculum for pharmacy students and explore the options of going beyond it, by having add on courses and making it as multi-disciplinary courses like bio-technology, micro biology and engineering.

“These can be parallel courses for the student during his final year study for three months,” he suggested.

There was no integration of Information Technology with the Parma industry, which was very much essential in the changing scenario, he pointed out.

“If these changes are made and once the students excel and prove they are second to none, they have very bright future on a par with the IT people,” he assured.

Venkateswaralu also urged the need to build brand equity for Indian medicines, by ensuring the quality or medicines sent abroad.

“It is not enough to check the quality of important medicines alone. But our medicines should get the confidence in international market. They should believe the medicines from our country, like some brands are internationally popular in electronic field”, he said.

He also felt that no regulator could assure the efficiency of same combination of medicines produced by different companies and as such he called for harmonization of laws in this regard.

Need to update Parma education stressed

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