Description

The course provides students with an introduction to industrial pharmacy. It deals with the principles of various unit operations such as heat transfer, evaporation, drying, distillation, filtration, centrifugation, crystallization and extraction. It focuses on the application of these unit operations in pharmaceutical industry with emphasis on the equipment and machines used during the production of different dosage forms.

Program

PharmD

Objectives

• Domain (1): Fundamental knowledge By the end of the course the student should be able to: 1.1. Outline principles and objectives of some unit operations widely used in drug manufacturing as heat transfer, evaporation, drying, crystallization and filtration and the factors affecting each process. 1.2. Identify essential ideas, aspects, advantages and disadvantages related to different pharmaceutical unit operations. 1.3. Outline the construction and role of each part of different equipment used in pharmaceutical manufacture and their optimal applications. Domain (2): Professional and Ethical Practice At the end of the course the student should be able to: 2.1 Solve problems associated with different unit operations. 2.2 Recommend the proper technique and equipment for the production of pharmaceuticals. 2.3 Judge on product quality according to the selected equipment. Domain (3): Pharmaceutical Care At the end of the course the student should be able to: Domain (4): Personal Practice At the end of the course the student should be able to: 4.1 Improve skills within a setting of self-learning and appreciate the need for independent life-long continuing education in addition to team work. 4.2 Practice numeric and other computations including use of units, mathematical functions, modes of data presentation and presentation skills. 4.3 Keep up with pharmaceutical literature and with new developments of the pharmacy profession and pharmaceutical industry.