Department of Pharmacology
B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad
Established in 1949, the Department of Pharmacology trains undergraduate and postgraduate students in line with the National Medical Commission and Gujarat University guidelines. The department emphasizes rational and scientific therapeutics through a Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) approach.
Pharmacology teaching is offered to MBBS, MD, PhD (Medical), BDS, Physiotherapy, Nursing, and other allied health programs. The department admits trains 250 undergraduate medical students and 16 postgraduates annually. It employs innovative methods like Case-based learning, Peer teaching and Self-Directed Learning for effective learning.
It serves as the Regional Training and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Monitoring Centre under the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI), and as a Medical Device Adverse Event Monitoring Centre under Materiovigilance Programme of India (MVPI), and NAC-NET Centre for antimicrobial consumption. It has reported over 14,300 Adverse Drug Reactions and 950 MDAEs to these programs till date and conducts national training programs and awareness campaigns.
The department is active in research with the ICMR, the State, and national funding bodies, and coordinates the Institutional Ethics Committee, Prescription Research and Rational Use of Medicines projects. It previously managed the Indian Journal of Pharmacology and has published over 120 research papers in the past decade.
The department therefore contributes to teaching, research, rational prescribing, and public health, positioning itself as an academic leader in pharmacology in the State of Gujarat.