Introduction:

The Department of Pharmacology was established in the year 2019 with an intent of imparting quality education for both undergraduate and post graduates. It deals with scientific study of drugs and their effects on living systems & forms the backbone of rational therapeutics. Currently the department runs 4 programs MBBS, MD (Pharmacology), MSc (Pharmacology) and PhD.

The department of Pharmacology, AIIMS is recognized as an ADR monitoring centre under Pharmacovigilance Program of India and also holds the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) cell (Registered with CDSCO & DHR) within the department with HoD Pharmacology being the member secretary. The department holds its reputation among the undergraduate students for engaging them in the innovative ways of teaching like role play, debate, seminar, problem-based learning (PBL). The department has the state-of-the-art museum containing various dosage forms, 2-D models and charts. The unique feature of museum is that, the relevant information about the dosage forms & ADRs can be obtained by scanning the QR codes.

The department also has an interactive (smart) board and computer assisted learning (CAL) lab, for facilitating the ICT enabled learning. Department has a well-equipped laboratory meant for postgraduate teaching and research. The faculty from the department are actively involved in doing academic research, regulatory clinical trials and are regularly invited as resource persons for workshops within or outside the organization.

Scope of Services:

Pharmacovigilance & materiovigilance services, drug information services, therapeutic drug monitoring, antimicrobial stewardship, prescription audit, Drug information centre (DIC), medication error reporting and prevention, clinical trial and ethics in research/drug development 

Department office:

Department of Pharmacology, Medical college building, AIIMS, Nagpur-441108