Duration
20h Th, 5h SEM
Number of credits
| Bachelor in pharmacy | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The objective of this course is to assimilate the physicochemical principles necessary to pharmaceutical dosage forms formulation.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of this course is to know the physicochemical notions useful for the pharmaceutical formulation and the administration of the drugs.
- Know the components of a medicine
- To be able to define the different properties of solids, solutions and dispersed systems.
- Know the behaviors of these systems
- To be able to quote and explain the different methods of analysis and their properties
- Introduction and pharmaceutical excipients
- The properties of the solid state
- Pharmaceutical solutions
- The rheology of fluids
- The properties of dispersed systems
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This course is based on courses which will be given face-to-face.
During some courses, Wooclap sessions will be organized on the subject of the previous course (s). These Wooclap sessions are intended to allow the student to verify the acquisition of his knowledge and to prepare him for the questions of the exam.
Full course informations and slides will be available on the online course via e-campus.
On the e-campus online course, the student will also find exercise sessions to be performed, videos illustrating certain parts of the course, seminars to be carried out online (MANDATORY), a glossary containing the definition of terms discussed in the course .
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
The courses are given in classroom (face-to-face)
Seminars must be followed online via the e-campus course
The online course e-campus includes additional informations to the course.
Recommended or required readings
A copy of the slides is available online
Reference books (not mandatory):
- Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy - 4th Edition - A.T.Florence and D.Attwood - Macmillan Press Ltd - 1998
- Pharmacie galénique - Bonnes pratiques de fabrication des médicaments - 7ème édition - A. Le Hir - Masson - 1997
- Initiation à la connaissance du médicament - 5ème édition - J.-M. Aiache et coll. - Masson - 2008
- Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology - vol.1 à 20 - Marcel Dekker Inc.
- Physical Pharmacy -Alfred Martin - Lea & Febiger
- Pharmacopée Européenne (Edition en cours)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
The evaluation is a written evalaution comprising both multiple choice (QCM) questions and open questions.
! The realization of all online seminars (available on ecampus) is mandatory and only students who have completed all seminars are admitted to the examination
A copy consultation session is organized.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Géraldine PIEL, Professeur Laboratoire de Technologie Pharmaceutique & Biopharmacie (LTPB) geraldine.piel@uliege.be