Association
of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, established in
1966, by the leading personalities like Prof. M. L. Schroff,
Prof G.P. Srivastava and others of pharmacy colleges of those
days is an organization whose heart beats for the pharmacy
profession. Earlier teachers' aims were to do the best for
their own students; Later, all the teachers came under the
umbrella of APTI; where the teacher's contribution could be
utilised both at micro levels with multi dimensional professionalism.
Teachers now not only give class room instructions but also
become educators in the true sense by being counselors, motivators,
guides, researchers, advisors, consultants to Pharma Companies,
etc, so as to create quality pharmacists of technological
era.
The Association
with its publications is a good sounding board for bouncing
avantGarde ideas of the members in the academic field. These
can be newer teaching methodologies, fabrication of tools,
Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) and other computer applications,
industry-academic interaction, academia-hospital interaction,
etc. We are proud of the fact that many of the goals have
already been reached but still more are to be achieved. The
effort of the association has been highly appreciated. |