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This course aims to teach the students legal and professional aspects of pharmaceutical compounding. It discusses the pharmacopeias, official formulations, good compounding practices, storage for dispensed products, prescription, abbreviations, labeling, and operational requirements to compound a formulation. In addition, the Pharmaceutical calculations and Pharmaceutical considerations of common compounding procedures for various formulations beginning with solution dosage forms through the dispersed system and semisolid formulations, and ending with suppositories will be discussed.
The course will foster the ability of the student to decide the need for suitable materials to be used for the formulation of a drug substance into a stable liquid or semisolid dosage form with build-in skills in problem-solving during compounding procedures. The students will be able to critically think and appreciate the need of designing an innovative dosage form that corresponds to the new challenges.
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