Skills Test 2009

Skills Test 2009 for Pharmacy Teachers and Students

The competition involves testing Indian Pharmacy student's outstanding communication skills (writing), Interactive skills, and leadership skiils and pharmacy teachers coaching skills, .

1) What is this competition?

Selected teams ( Teacher + student(s) ) will have to write on different topics (of their choice and/or theme of the month) consistently. We will provide mothly themes to the each individual team seperately . They need to write on given theme for that specific month. Examples of themes : Diabetes, Transdermal drug development, Controlled drug release, spectroscopy, etc .

a) What is the composition of team ?

A typical team should consist of at least one teacher and maximum of 3 students .

b) Any specific topics?

We would like to leave the option to selected teams. Examples of topics but not limited to: Pharmacy activities in your college, state and country, Scientific topics, About your pharmacy friends and their achievements, pharmaceutical information you come across, about competitive exams you are studying etc

c) Where should we write?

We will provide access in Pharmainfo.net and you need to post them directly at your convient time.

2) How to apply?

Interested team need to submit (you can send them by email : contests @ pharmainfo.net)

1) Brief resume with photograph of all the members of your team

2) Short write up on 4 topics (should be brief) a) What is a blog b) Effects on Pharmaceutical Community/ Pharmaceutical Scenario due to Information technology c)Blogs as a tool for sharing scientific knowledge d) Any topic of your choice

3) Supporting letter from college dean.

4) Profile pages links of the teacher and and students (You can create profile page by registering here )

3) How do you select initial teams?

Based on the applications we receive, we will select initial teams based on a) quality of the information on 4 topics we provided b) supporting letter from the dean and c) other independent internal parameters we use.

4) How does this competition works?

Competition starts on Feb 1st, 2009 (based on applicaton recieved by Jan 24th, 2009) and ends on December 31st, 2009. During this period selected teams should keep writing and posting their opinions,information collected or comments to the space we provided in Pharmainfo.net (Yes ! You need to have internet connection and you will be managing your account like posting your written matters) .

6) How do you select final winners from these teams?

Winners will be selected on various factors like number of posts posted, quality of posts, diversity of posts, comments to others posts, and last but not least quality of comments posted on other teams blog posts. There is also possiblity of selecting team of the month with special prizes.

7) Guide/teacher also need to post?

Yes !. Everone one in the team needs to participate . Guide needs take leadership in posting and providing comments to his team members and also other team members (Yes ! Needs to display excellent coaching skills consistently).

8) Is there any registration/entry fees for participation?

NO. We do not expect any fees from the participants.

Still questions? Please email us contests @ pharmainfo.net . We love to hear from you!

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