Pharmaceutics (1)

Module Description

• Module Goals

The module aims to introduce first-year student to: pharmacology, its history and origin; definition of drug and its sources; classification of drugs, the aim is to teach the student in a simple manner how to formulate these forms in a way as to ensure that their effect reaches the patient as best as possible.

• Assessment Methods

Individual questions during the lecture, quick tests covering the complete period of the module, evaluation of external activities, and theoretical and practical tests.

• Module Syllabus

This module presents basic concepts in pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacopeia. It also provides a simple explanation of the strategy of formulating different pharmaceutical forms and their fate in the organism. In addition, it includes the mechanism of mutual interactions between the human body and active substances and the effect of different excipients. The module also provides an explanation of the methods of pharmaceutical calculations, dilution methods, pharmaceutical processes, various drug delivery systems, dosage and pharmacological factors affecting it, method of calculating the dose for children and the excipients needed to prepare solid and liquid pharmaceuticals.