McGraw-Hill and Silverchair launch online pharmacy education resource

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Silverchair Science+Communications, a leading developer of medical content technology for health care publishers, announced the launch of AccessPharmacy (http://www.accesspharmacy.com), the fifth in a series of content-rich medical web applications developed on behalf of publisher McGraw-Hill. Designed for students pursuing Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degrees, AccessPharmacy was built to complement current pharmacy curricula and hosts a deep library of reference and interactive resources. Driven by a double layer of Silverchair's semantic tagging technology, the application - organized by Curriculum Topics and Organ Systems - offers students a highly accurate semantic search engine for gathering information from 20 content-rich textbooks. The site also includes a drug index, calculators, an RSS pharmacy news feed, a comprehensive self-assessment module with more than 3,500 questions, and a fully interactive case study library where students can review cases and compose their own care plans to share with instructors. The editor-in-chief of AccessPharmacy is Terry L. Schwinghammer, Pharm.D., BCPS, Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. His Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient- Focused Approach (6th edition) serves as the source text for the case studies feature called Cases & My Care Plans. "This section offers students online access to comprehensive patient cases covering almost 150 disease states," he said. "Students can also complete care plans online and submit case answers to their instructors electronically." Like all online resources developed by Silverchair, AccessPharmacy was built on the company's Silverchair Content Manager (SCM) platform.