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Community Model Pharmacy

Community Model Pharmacy

Community model pharmacy training objectives:

  1. The community model pharmacy aims to show the typical image of the pharmacy and to inform students of the requirements that must be met when opening a pharmacy.
  2. Providing electronic programs that help teach students pharmacy skills.
  3. Train students to review the medical ticket thoroughly and identify any pharmacological errors and how to dispose of them.
  4. A simulation of different situations in dealing with members of the surrounding community, educating students and giving them effective communication skills to patients, their families, pharmacists and colleagues.
  5. Training students to prepare some simple formulations at the Faculty pharmacy’s laboratory with the help of ready-made pharmaceuticals from companies.
  6. Training to make the usual calculations of the dose based on the surface area of the patient's body, weight or age.
  7. Train students to make some simple measurements of vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse, and blood sugar level.... Etc.
  8. Learn about the types of ligaments and covers of wounds and how to use them.
  9. Train students to complete any information from sources in the pharmacy.
  10. 11. Training students on how to spend drugs that are dispensed without a prescription (OTC) and how to choose alternatives.

Educational services:

  1. Introducing college students to different forms of medicine and the way in which it is taken.
  2. To inform students of how to organize the drug in public and private pharmacies and the best way to store the drug.
  3. Introducing students to the forms and method of use of medicines of plant origin.
  4. Help students to conduct scientific research on different groups of medicine.
  5. Training students on the proper practice of the pharmacy profession.
  6. To inform students of the important role that the pharmacist plays in the surrounding environment.
  7. Organizing scientific meetings in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies to explain the mechanics of the work of medicine and to identify modern medicines.
  8. Developing students' personal skills in the field of pharmacy and how to deal with the public in preparation for their entry into the labor market.

Community services:

  1. Measuring blood pressure.
  2. Measuring sugar in blood.
  3. Measure body weight and height.
  4. Provide advice and guidance for diabetes and high blood pressure patients through the work of lifestyle-containing leaflets that this patient should follow and medications that need to be avoided.
  5. Organizing medical convoys in cooperation with the university as well as with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Youth and other community bodies.
  6. Free dispensing of medicine to low-income people through the charity corner of the pharmacy.
  7. The work of health awareness leaflets include homeopathic methods that need to be followed to avoid various diseases and ways to prevent them.

Charity corner:

The Faculty of Pharmacy Council approved in its 565th session to allocate part of the Faculty's model community-based pharmacy to collect usable medicines from donors (faculty members, their associates and some pharmaceutical companies) for distribution to those in need of treatment from college students and workers and to name this part "The Corner of Charity."