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Pharmacy - obligatory

The subject focuses primarily on legal and administrative regulations and the principles of proper preparation and decribing of medical prescriptions, and also deals with the essence and forms of medicines, routes and methods of administration, and finally, the preparations and raw materials used in the pharmacy.

Lectures

Lecture No. 1 (2 h): Introduction (definitions, nomenclature, classes of medicines, pharmacopoeia etc.) & The routes of drug administration

Lecture No. 2 (2 h): Characteristics of the major pharmaceutical drug dosage forms: powders, suppositories, pilules, ointments, liniments, creams, pastes

Lecture No. 3 (2 h): Characteristics of the major pharmaceutical drug dosage forms: tablets, capsules, modified-release dosage forms for oral administration, granules, preparations for inhalations and other aerosols

Lecture No. 4 (2 h): Characteristics of the major pharmaceutical drug dosage forms: solutions, suspensions, emulsions, parenteral preparations (including microspheres, microcapsules and others) and subdermal implants

Lecture No. 5 (2 h): Characteristics of the major pharmaceutical drug dosage forms: tinctures, extracts, infusions, decoctions, herbs, eye preparations, skin patches for transdermal administration, dosage forms for veterinary use only

Classes

Classes No. 1: Principles of prescription writing – introduction (the rules and regulations, which are applied for writing prescriptions, parts of a prescription, weights, measures, prescription abbreviations, latin phrases etc.).

Classes No. 2: Practice writing prescriptions: powders & suppositories.

Classes No. 3: Practice writing prescriptions: ointments, creams, liniments & pastes.

Classes No. 4: Practice writing prescriptions: eye drops and ointments, tablets, capsules and TTS.

Classes No. 5: Practice writing prescriptions: solutions, suspensions, preparations for injections and aerosols.

Classes No. 6: Preparation of selected compounded formulations: solutions, decoctions, tinctures and macerates & Practice writing prescriptions: mixtures, herbs and tinctures.

Classes No. 7: Preparation of selected compounded formulations: suppositories, divided powders and ointments.

Classes No. 8: Practice writing prescriptions - repetition.  

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