General provisions

This course substitutes and corresponds to 3FG035 or 3FG505, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Physical Chemistry.

Entry requirements

For students within the Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Programme: at least 60 credits from term 1 to 2 and have followed all earlier courses within the programme. For students on single subject course: at least 60 credits of which 30 credits chemistry from scientific or technical education and basic course in physiology or the equivalent. which be tested individually.

Learning outcomes

The students should on completion of the course:

- be able to account for various types of intermolecular forces

- be able to describe basic physico-chemical properties for solid phases, liquids and solutions

- be able to account for colligative phenomena and the bases within surface and colloid chemistry

- be able to define the dosage forms

- be able to account for the different routes of drug administration including prerequisites for drug absorption

- be able to account for the preformulation and including characterisation methods

- be able to account for the different dosage forms, included excipients and their function

- be able to account for manufacturing processes for the most common dosage forms

- be able to account for packaging and control of finished drugs

- be able to predict properties (such as releasement, uptakes) on the basis of a given route of drug administration and the design of drug compounding

- be able to account for quality assurance and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) in connection with drug production

- having received skills in production and quality control of drug compoundings

Content

The course comprises:

The physico-chemical properties, colligative phenomena, diffusion and surface and colloid chemistry of solutions.

The different dosage forms and their properties, whereupon especially be treated technical and biopharmaceutical aspects.

For dosage forms relevant physical systems, their properties and characterisation.

Pharmaceutical production methods and design and production of finished drugs.

Study and control of dosage forms and quality assurance, especially Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

The laboratory part treats integrated problems of physico-chemical and pharmaceutics relating to different pharmaceutical formulations

Instruction

Teaching is given as lectures, group exercises, seminars, demonstrations and laboratory sessions.

Compulsory parts of the course:

All parts in connection with laboratory sessions and demonstrations.

Assessment

Examination is organised at the end of the course. Possibility to supplement failed laboratory course can be given at the earliest at next course and only in case of a vacancy. For passed in the course requires passed laboratory course (examination code) and passed examinations (examination code).

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Each student has the opportunity to in all six examinations i.e. one examination and five re-examinations.