{"id":8919,"date":"2025-10-01T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nu.edu.om\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:05:48","slug":"workshop-on-calculations-conducted-by-pharmacy-counselors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nu.edu.om\/pharmacy\/workshop-on-calculations-conducted-by-pharmacy-counselors\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Calculations conducted by Pharmacy Counselors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">On Wednesday, 1st October, 10 students and lab staff from College of Pharmacy, NU attended a session on Pharmacy Calculations. This was conducted by the Pharmacy Counsellors in Knowledge Oasis Oman <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #222222; background: white;\">as a special initiative to help Pharmacy students connect classroom knowledge with real-world pharmacy practice. The workshop provided valuable insights and hands-on learning opportunities, and the participants showed great enthusiasm and engagement throughout the session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #222222; background: white;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nu.edu.om\/images\/2025\/10\/07\/c064ea3975cff16fa5c7b487943f56bc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">The course included a variety of interactive and engaging teaching methods designed to strengthen students&rsquo; understanding and application of pharmaceutical calculations. The session started with an oral presentation about the content of prescription, difference between different dose terminologies like loading dose, initial dose, maintenance dose, therapeutic dose, maximum dose and basic pharmaceutical calculations. This was followed by several problem-based learning sessions focused on specific dosage forms including oral and topical formulations and calculation of correct doses for children etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nu.edu.om\/images\/2025\/10\/07\/25a4e5caddd804d95ad89ab30da214a0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">The combination of oral presentations, problem-based learning sessions, and interactive discussions improved the confidence and competence of the participants in pharmaceutical calculations. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 1st October, 10 students and lab staff from College of Pharmacy, NU attended a session on Pharmacy Calculations. 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The workshop provided valuable insights and hands-on learning opportunities, and the participants showed great enthusiasm and engagement throughout the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8920,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-cop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Workshop on Calculations conducted by Pharmacy Counselors - College of Pharmacy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nu.edu.om\/pharmacy\/workshop-on-calculations-conducted-by-pharmacy-counselors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workshop on Calculations conducted by Pharmacy Counselors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Wednesday, 1st October, 10 students and lab staff from College of Pharmacy, NU attended a session on Pharmacy Calculations. 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