PHA315 Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Calculations Laboratory I

[1–2, 1 cr.]

This laboratory course is a compounding laboratory delivered concurrently alongside PHA314 Dosage Forms I course. Techniques and principles used to prepare and dispense individual extemporaneous prescriptions, including calculations and labeling of compounded dosage forms, are covered. The formulation, preparation and quality control assessment of solutions, colloidal dispersions, suspensions, emulsions, and different solid dosage forms. Moreover, pharmaceutical calculations are addressed particularly the systems of measurement and the calculations used in pharmacy practice such as ratio and proportion, reducing and enlarging formulas, dilution and concentration, aliquots, and specific gravity.

Co-requisites: PHA314 Dosage Forms I and Professional Year 1 status