1. Mohammad M. Kamal Nawar
Steward of Clinical Pharmacy Department and Drug Information Center
Egyptian Railway Medical Center
Ministry of Transport, Cairo
Raghda Shehab El-Din
Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Affairs
Ministry of Health, Cairo

2. • In fact it could be represented with more precise
title, D&PICs, Drug and Poison Information
Centers.
• These centers concern with any medical,
pharmaceutical information related to drugs and
poisons for both humans and animals.
• DIC could be considered as one of the clinical
pharmacy application shapes and tasks, however,
it isn’t restricted within the hospital small scale,
and it could be applied everywhere dealing with
drugs and public health.

3. The pharmacist working in such places, DICS, is
known as Drug Information Providing
specialist or even as Drug Informatics
Specialist (DIS).

4. • Increased availability of internet information recourses.
• Obtain, manage, interpret and use of information.
• Influence pharmacy students and developing their role as drug
consultants.
• Decentralizing pharmacists in hospitals.
• Offering drug consulting services for health care professionals and
aiding researchers.
• Support for clinical services.
• Answering embarrassing drug-related inquiries.
• Developing therapeutic protocols and guidelines.
• Involved in P&T committees’ activities (Decision making while drug
choosing, formulating medication use policies and drug
formularies).
• Developing publications (papers, websites, flyers, brochures).
• Educating pharmacy students and other health care professionals.
• Pharmacovigilance.

5. • Prevention of ADE.
• Growth of information technology.
• Changes in the health care environment.
• Sophistication of medication therapy.
• More knowledgeable patients.

6. • Loss of skills needed (soft skills, searching
skills, retrieval skills, appraisal skills, ..) and
loss of resources teaching them such skills.
• Unawareness of EBM practice.

7. •‫االجابة‬‫على‬‫االستفسارات‬‫الدوائية‬‫و‬‫السموم‬‫و‬‫معلوماتها‬.
•‫تقديم‬‫تقييم‬‫فني‬‫عن‬‫األدوية‬‫للجان‬‫المناقصات‬‫و‬P & T.
•‫كتابة‬‫النشرات‬‫الطبية‬‫و‬‫الدوائية‬‫و‬‫التوعوية‬‫للفريق‬‫الطبي‬‫و‬‫المرضى‬.
•‫التوثيق‬‫الدوائي‬‫و‬‫منه‬‫تسجيل‬‫أي‬‫شكاوى‬‫أو‬‫نتائج‬‫ايجابية‬‫أو‬‫سلبية‬‫عن‬‫األد‬‫وية‬،‫عمل‬
‫قاعدة‬‫بيانات‬‫دوائية‬‫خاصة‬‫بمرضى‬‫المكان‬(‫التاريخ‬‫الدوائي‬‫للمريض‬).
•‫متابعة‬‫مشاكل‬‫األدوية‬‫و‬‫تدوين‬‫آثارها‬‫السلبية‬‫بالتنسيق‬‫مع‬‫الجهات‬‫الرسمية‬‫ب‬‫الدولة‬‫و‬
‫شركات‬‫الدواء‬.
•‫عمل‬‫قائمة‬‫األدوية‬‫األساسية‬‫بالمستشفى‬Drug Formulary،‫و‬‫تحديثها‬‫بصفة‬‫مستمرة‬
.
•‫تنفيذ‬‫مراجعة‬‫استخدام‬‫األدوية‬Drug Use Review‫بالتعاون‬‫مع‬‫لجنة‬‫الـ‬P & T،‫و‬
‫ذلك‬‫بإعداد‬‫المعايير‬‫لألدوية‬‫المراد‬‫استعمالها‬‫و‬‫مناقشة‬‫هذه‬‫المعايير‬‫مع‬‫األطباء‬‫ل‬‫لوصول‬
‫ألفضل‬‫بروتوكول‬‫عالجي‬‫مبني‬‫على‬‫األدلة‬‫و‬‫البراهين‬.
•‫تنفيذ‬‫دراسات‬‫األدوية‬‫قيد‬‫االختبار‬Investigational Drugs.
•‫مهمة‬‫أخرى‬‫تقوم‬‫بها‬‫بعض‬‫مراكز‬‫الدواء‬،‫و‬‫هي‬‫تقديم‬‫المعلومات‬‫عن‬‫السموم‬،‫خاصة‬
‫مع‬‫حاالت‬‫التسمم‬‫الدوائي‬‫و‬‫الكيميائي‬.

8. • INDICATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC USE
• DOSING
• DRUG ADMINISTRATION
• DRUG INTERACTIONS
• ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
• PRODUCT-SPECIFIC CONCERNS

9. • Hospital Based-DICs
• College Based-DICs
• Community Based-DICs
• Industry Based DICs

10. • Evolution, role and opportunities of drug informatics
• Modified systematic approach
• Effective responses and recommendations
• Drug information resources
• Electronic information management
• Fundamentals of study design and clinical trials and clinical trials evaluation
• Literature critical appraisal
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Evidence based medicine principles
• Principles of medical biostatistics and clinical application of statistical analysis
• Documentation and professional writing
• Legal and ethical aspects of drug information practice
• Pharmacy and therapeutics committee
• Drug evaluation monographs
• Quality improvement and the medication use process
• Medication problems ( ADR, SE, ADE...) and errors
• Investigational drugs
• Soft skills (communication, ….)
• Toxicology, poisons and venom

11. • Place:
space of about 16 m2
Separated room is more preferred
• Network : LAN/WLAN
• Phone
• Computers and their accessories
• Library
• Furniture : tables , chairs, ….
• Subscription into some websites
• Air-conditioning