PHA 633 - Pharmaceutics I + Lab

Credit Hours: 4
This course will briefly introduce the history, mission, standards, laws and regulations of pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, and pharmacy practice. It will introduce drug development processes, pharmaceutical studies and processes in pre-formulation. The course will emphasize an understanding of factors influencing formulation, stability, and packaging of various dosage forms. The course will examine simple dosage forms as a pretext to more advanced dosage formulation covered in Pharmaceutics II. The course will contain a laboratory that introduces symbols, formats and operating procedures utilized in prescription and medication orders for commercially available and extemporaneously compounded products. This laboratory will include computations related to drug product formulation, dosing and biological activity, statistical data and medication orders for commercially available and extemporaneously compounded products.