The Ministry of Health represented by the Directorate General of Medical Supplies organized today at City Seasons Hotel Muscat a workshop on the pharmaceutical information & critical appraisal.

The four-day workshop aims at training the pharmacists within the training and rehabilitative courses and programs of the Ministry of Health to strengthen the knowledge of all health workers in the health sector, particularly the pharmaceutical sector on the scientific methods in providing the pharmaceutical information and critical appraisal. It also aims at exchanging knowledge, as well as the basic skills in the field of providing the pharmaceutical information for research, management and applying the critical information to improve patient’s care.

It includes several topics; like types and categories of the available clinical information, PICO technology, choosing the appropriate resource for the required clinical information….etc.

Around 25 clinical pharmacists from the Ministry of Health’s referral hospitals participated in this workshop.