Top Victorian University will provide IMgateway access to over 2,000 students in 2016!

In an important new development, one of the leading Universities in Victoria will provide its students access to the IMgateway interactions database (developed in partnership with the School of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney). The move has been prompted by the increased use of complementary medicines among consumers and the need for evidence based information about the potential interactions with pharmaceutical drugs.

As Nurses are the administrators of medications in the healthcare setting, it is vital that our students have access to the most up to date information regarding the medications they are administering and Drug Herb Interactions through IMgateway. (University spokesperson).

IMgateway assesses the clinically relevant interactions between established pharmaceutical drugs and herbal drugs and complementary medicines. This is an important area of clinical pharmacy practice, as the community pharmacy is a distributor of many and varied complementary medicines, so access to this relatively newly developed database is crucial for pharmacy students. This is even more important now as there is a “Complementary Medicines” subject in the 4th year of the pharmacy degree, and so such a reference (which is very rare), is fundamental for the teaching and learning involved within this “Complementary Medicines” subject. This reference would also be a valuable tool for researchers within the pharmacy department, as there are several of us who are actively involved in research in the area of interactions between herbal/complementary medicines and pharmaceutical drugs (and as I mention above, there are scant “rigorous” sources of reference information in the area) - Researcher, Pharmacy Department.

For more information about IMgateway please email: info@imgateway.net or call Miriam Ronagh on 1300 864 894.

IMgateway is owned by UnityHealth, the developers of iTherapeutics.