ICMR: Free Online Course on Prescription Practices Launched; Classes to Commence from Oct 12 

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched a free online course on September 17. The course is based on 'Prescribing Skills for Indian Medical Graduates' and will be run by the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE-ICMR), Chennai.

Dr. Rajni Kaul will be the course coordinator. Talking about the newly launched course, she informed that the course was guided by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and is now set up by ICMR. 

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Director-General and Secretary of Department of Health Research (DHR), Prof. Balaram Bhargava said in a statement, "The Council through its institute ICMR-NIE has successfully completed a basic course in Biomedical Research. The Course has now been made compulsory for PG students by MCI."

'Prescribing Skills for Indian Medical Graduates': Course Details 

The faculty members in Clinical Pharmacology and medicine from the ICMR-NVCCP (National Virtual Centre of Clinical Pharmacology) network developed this course for medical graduates. The course covers India's health problem-related topics. The course includes all the do’s and don'ts of prescribing medicines and how to administer drugs and communicate instructions to the patients.

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The classes will be conducted online over a period of three months from October 12 onwards and shall be completed by December 30, 2020. The course will be taught in 40 video lectures, each lecture will be of 20 minutes duration. 

Before the commencement of the course, a pre-test will be taken to evaluate the prior knowledge of the participants. Interns can register now and appear for a pre-test to be held on October 4 or October 11, 2020. 

Once the course is completed, a participation certificate will be awarded to the participants.