Facilities & Training

As 'Education driven by Quality and Excellence' is the distinctiveness of the JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, the department has the infrastructure and facilities more and above the statutory requirements which are at par with international standards.

Infrastructure

Name of the Infrastructure/facility Description
PG Class Room / Discussion Room ICT facilities for engaging theory classes, group discussions and attending webinars
PG/Research Laboratory 20 workstations with LAN connections and WI-FI connectivity
Simulation Laboratory A mock community pharmacy structure with audio visual recording facilities to train the students in dispensing and patient counselling under simulated conditions
PharmD Class Rooms 04 class rooms with facilities for ICT enabled teaching, WI-FI connected
Drug and Poison Information Centre The extension of the centre functioning from Govt. District Head Quarters Hospital, Ooty

Community Health Centre

As nearly about 1000 students, staff members are in the campus and the institution is situated in a prime residential area, the need for a ‘Health Centre and Community Pharmacy’ with an outpatient clinic was felt necessary and the same was established in the year 2016.

This centre has two doctor’s rooms for outpatient consultancy & care, a community pharmacy and a patient counselling room.

This facility is also used for training the students in the community pharmacy activities under the supervision of the registered pharmacists and academic preceptors.

Learning Resources

The department of Pharmacy Practice is equipped with the following resources for the teaching and learning process.

Web of Science employs various search and analysis capabilities. First, citation indexing is employed, which is enhanced by the capability to search for results across disciplines.

Web of Science employs various search and analysis capabilities. First, citation indexing is employed, which is enhanced by the capability to search for results across disciplines.
Name of the Learning Resource Description
Department Library Rich stack of more than 900 reference books, monographs, guidelines, drug information hand books, etc. Updated every year with an average budget of Rs. 0.75 lakhs
PharmD info, E-Learn and JSSUONLINE Online discussion forum and LMS for effective interaction between students, teachers and other fellow professionals, virtual classes, e-assignments, online tests, etc.
IBM Micromedex solutions A tailored Micromedex interface providing trusted evidence and global guidance with a Pharmaceutical perspective.
Medicines Complete Medicines Complete is produced by Pharmaceutical Press, the publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Web of Science
Sci-finder World's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research. Explore journals, books and articles.
Scopus The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.
ClinicalKey Medical search engine and database tool owned by medical and scientific publishing company Elsevier that offers access to the medical information it publishes.
DELNET Database Maintains an online union catalogue of books available in its member-libraries. This union catalogue is continuously updated and is growing in size. The information can be retrieved by author, title, subject, conference, series, etc.