INTRODUCTION

The Department of Pharmacology started in the year 1960 at RMCH. The first head of the department was Dr. K.D. Chowdhry. Subsequently Dr. R.K. Dutta, Dr. R.K. Prasad, Dr. Nandita Dasgupta and Dr. Janardan Sharma became the HODs. Respectively. Presently Dr. (Mrs.) Manju Gari is heading the department. Right from the beginning, the dept. has been recognized for its undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate- Besides studies, students are encouraged to take part in interactive session, research work under ICMR project.

Postgraduate- PG students take part in regular reporting of Adverse Drug Reaction cases from different dept., seminar presentation, poster presentation and journal club activities. Each student is encouraged to take part in national conference and paper publication.

FUTURE PLANS

CAL LAB (Computer Associated Learning) is in the pipeline. The dept. is soon going to procure the necessary computer and software to facilitate experiments and research works. The aim is to run Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology for which efforts are being made to get required infrastructure.