Bridging the gap between academia and practice: novel organogram at the Pharmacy Council of India

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Table 1 Timeline and lag between introduction of pharmacy practice regulations and clinical pharmacy degrees

Fig. 1 Pharmacy Council of India, Registers and Committees [32]

Fig. 2 Vision of a Novel Add-On Organogram at the Pharmacy Council of India. ¹Pharmacy Practice Advisory Committee. ²Pharmacy Practice Regulations. ³Clinical Pharmacists’ National Registration and Regulatory Committee. ⁴Clinical Pharmacists. ⁵State Pharmacy Councils. ⁶ Clinical Pharmacists’ National Registration Adjudicating Committee. ⁷Post graduate. ⁸Clinical Pharmacists’ National Practicing Register. ⁹Clinical Pharmacists’ Practice Site Inspecting Committee. ¹⁰Standard Operating Procedure. ¹¹Continuing Professional Development. ¹²Continuing Education. ¹³Medicines Optimisation Clinics. ¹⁴Pharmacy practice. ¹⁵Pharmacy Council of India

Table 2 Proposed pharmacists’ registration renewal requirements

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