Syllabus of Jamia Hamdard Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharmacy) - Ist Year - BPH03 Dispensing Pharmacy

PHARMACEUTICS III
DISPENSING PHARMACY (THEORY)
Total Teaching Hours: 50

1. Prescriptions

Reading and understanding of prescriptions. Modern methods of prescribing and common Latin abbreviations.

2. Metrology

Reducing and enlarging recipes; percentage calculations, % w/v, v/v, and w/w, alcohol dilutions, use of alligation methods; proof spirit, isotonic solutions, mEq units, displacement value of suppositories.

3. Posology

Factors influencing dose. Calculations of doses on the basis of age, sex and surface area.

4. Powders

Types of powders, their merits and demerits, classification of powders, compounding, storage and packaging of powders requiring special consideration like effervescent powders, bulk powders, dusting powders, insufflations, dentifrices and cachets.

5. Liquid Dosage forms

Preparation, merits, demerits, solubility and methods of increasing solubility. Storage and packaging of liquid formulations for internal and external use.

6. Emulsions and Suspensions

Emulsions – Definition, types and identification tests, merits and demerits, uses and classification of emulsifying agents and preparation and stability of emulsions. Suspensions – Definition, types, merits and demerits, use of suspending agents, flocculated And deflocculated suspensions, formulation and stability of suspensions.

7. Semi-Solid Dosage forms

Ointments: Classification of ointments and ointment bases. Factors governing selection of an ideal ointment base, preparation, packaging, labeling and storage of ointments. Pastes, Jellies, Poultices: Formulation. Suppositories and Pesseries: Types, suppositories bases, displacement value, preparation, packaging, labeling and storage.

8. Tablets

Types of tablets, merits and demerits, preparation methods, equipments, storage, packaging And evaluation of tablets.

9. Capsules

Hard and soft gelatin capsules, merits and demerits, preparation, storage, packaging and evaluation of capsules.

10. Sterile Dosage forms

Definition, types, merits and demerits. Elementary study of the formulation characteristics of the following types : Injectable preparations, ophthalmic and ENT products, Total Parenteral Nutrition, dialysis fluids. General requirements of sterile dosage forms. Handling, packaging, storage and dispensing of sterile dosage forms.

11. Introduction to Ayurvedic/Unani Tibb Dosage forms.

12. Incompatibility in Prescriptions

Physical, chemical and therapeutic incompatibility.

13. Labelling instructions and precautions while dispensing various dosage forms.

PRACTICAL
Total Hours 100

1. Student's Orientation

Introduction to the laboratory equipment, weighing methodology, general instructions and handling of prescriptions, labeling instructions.

2. Compounding and Dispensing of Prescriptions

At least 50 prescriptions, representing the following classes of products, should be compounded and dispensed: Powders, capsules, tablets, mixtures, emulsions, lotions and liniments, ointments, creams, pastes, suppositories, ENT preparations, incompatibilities, miscellaneous products

3. Current Patent and Proprietary Products

A study of current patent and proprietary products. Students should be trained in patient counseling by discussing specific problems in major classes of patent and proprietary products. Study of the following classes of patent and proprietary products, generic and selected brand names, indications; contraindications, adverse drug reactions, available dosage forms, dose and packing of (a) Antihypertensive drugs, (b) Antiamoebic drugs, (c) Antihistaminic, (d) Antiemetics, (e) Antacids and ulcer healing drugs, (f) Anti-diarrhoeals and laxatives, (g) Respiratory drugs, (h) Antibiotics, (i) Analgesics and (j) Antipyretics.

4. Prescription Reading:

Minimum of 20 prescriptions from the clinical practice

5. Legal and Ethical aspects of Dispensing and compounding of prescriptions

The students should be trained about these aspects and evaluated by questionnaire.

Books Recommended:
1. Indian Pharmacopoeia, Govt. of India.
2. Remington’s Pharmaceutical Sciences.
3. Nanda, Popli and Sharma: Current dispensing practices.
4. R.K.Khar and Pratibha Nand: Dispensing Pharmacy, CBS Publishers, Delhi.
5. A.K. Gupta and S.S. Bajaj: Introduction to Pharmaceutics-II, 2nd Edition,CBS Publishers, New Delhi.
6. Cooper and Gunn: Dispensing for pharmaceutical students, 12th Edition, CBS Publishers, Delhi.
7. B.M. Mittal: Textbook of Pharmaceutical Formulation, 4th Edition, Vallabh Prakashan, Delhi.
8. Merck Manual: www. Merck.com/ pubs/manual.
9. Rx list internet: Drug Index: www. Rxlist.com.
10. Virtual Library: Medicine-www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/wwwvi.
11. Drugs Today
12. MIMS/CIMS
13. James Swarbrick and James C. Boylan: Encyclopedia of pharmaceutical Technology, Vol.12, -Prescribing of Drugs - pp-443-464, Marcel Dekker Inc. New
York.
14. Asgar Ali and A.D. Mahamuni: Pharmaceutics-II (Theory and Practise of Dispensing Pharmacy), Vallabh Prakashan, New Delhi.

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