 Admission Open for MBBS Program
Pharmacology
Facilities
Library cum Seminar room
The departmental library is endowed with 208 books in pharmacology, therapeutics, and allied sciences and subscribes to 5 national and international journals. The library also functions as a seminar room for PG and faculty presentations. Besides this, there are two demonstration rooms and two laboratories (with anterooms) for clinical and experimental pharmacology used also for the demonstration of practical topics. A departmental museum exists with exhibits, photographs, crude drug preparations & specimens. The Department  administers and manages an Animal House.Â
Museum
The departmental museum has an extensive permanent exhibition of illustrative charts and study materials, crude drug preparations with booklets and drug samples and serves as a learning resource. There are 21 charts on the history of medicine, 15 on medicinal plants and 20 crude drug preparations. Moreover, there are 150 drug samples available. 109 charts on pharmacology related topics are available and displayed in the museum, clinical and experimental pharmacology laboratories.
Laboratories
Two well-equipped laboratories are available for UG practical classes in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology. There is also a research laboratory catering primarily for PG teaching in experimental and clinical pharmacology. The postgraduate research laboratory is well equipped with facilities for conducting animal experiments. The housing of chemicals in optimum conditions and the techniques of Good laboratory practices (GLP) are established and followed amongst postgraduate students. Simulated experimental pharmacology software (CAL- LAB) are also available.
Special Equipment and Instruments
Scientific research instruments for postgraduate learning like rotarod apparatus, convulsiometer, analgesiometer, pole climbing apparatus, Eddy’s hot plate for in vivo screening methods for a muscle relaxant, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic and analgesic properties of drugs or experimental compounds are available in the Department. Kymographs and electrophysiographs are available for bioassays on animal tissue. A model for the demonstration of the psychopharmacological activity of compounds is underdevelopment.
Classroom facilities
Four demonstration rooms, equipped with overhead & LCD projectors are available for conducting theory classes, tutorials and group discussions for undergraduate students.
Animal House
Department of Pharmacology is in-charge of Central Animal House, MGMCRI, which is established in 2002. Read More
Herbal Garden (Sanjeevanam)
Initiative of the department of Pharmacology and IQAC, MGMCRI Established herbal garden (Sanjeevanam) in collaboration with CIDRF in year 2013. The area covered is around 4000 Sq Feet and there are 600 plants of 38 species. The plants are mainly used for academic as well as research purpose.
