Pharmacy has always been the science of solutions — and last week, we saw that come to life in the most subtle way.
At Bareilly Medtech Incubation & Innovation Labs (BMIIL), we brought together pharmacy faculty and students of Bareilly International University for a hands-on innovation workshop — one designed not around lectures, but around real problems . Faculty and students worked side by side, not as teachers and learners, but as co-creators — challenging assumptions.
This is exactly what BMIIL is being built for: to show that the next breakthrough in healthcare may well begin inside a pharmacy, nursing or an allied health services college.
The hands-on workshop focused on deep diving into a problem statement. Each team had a problem statement that they had to pick from a basket of problems. Teams had a customized worksheet, that enforced design thinking concepts. More emphasis was on detailing the problem statement than the solutions. While in fact in detailing the problem the ideas started emerging and the solutions became visible.
” Months back, BMIIL began by lighting the spark of awareness. Then we put tools in people’s hands. Now we are digging deep into the problems that matter.”
