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Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


PA30286: Medicines design 2: solid dosage forms

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Click here for further information Assessment: EX100
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites: Before taking this unit you must take PA10281 and take PA20285
Click here for further information Description: Aims:
To learn about the solid oral dosage forms, their manufacturing process and their use in drug therapy.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the unit the student will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast the gastro-intestinal, colonic and rectal routes of drug delivery. Analyse which route of administration is more appropriate for a given drug therapy. Illustrate the requirements imposed to medicines by the desired route of administration.
2. Compare and contrast the following dosage forms: powders, granules, tablets, capsules, and lozenges.
3. Illustrate the technological process involved in the formulation of solid oral dosage forms. List the most commonly used excipients, and evaluate the critical parameters involved in the production, stability, safety and efficacy of solid oral dosage forms. Examine the requirements and tests that each type of dosage form must met and relate them to their performance.
4. Examine the role of preformulation (crystals, salts and polymorphs), calorimetry and micromeritics in pharmaceutical development and the performance of dosage forms.
5. Examine the role of IVIVC in pharmaceutical development.
6. Explain what pharmacopoeias are and their use in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.
7. Explain the technological process and list excipients involved in the formulation of suppositories. Explain the critical parameters involved in their production, stability and relate them to their performance and to the characteristics of the rectal route of drug delivery. Apply the concept of displacement factor.
8. Illustrate how medicines are labelled and packed.
9. Demonstrate the significance of GMP in pharmaceutical industry.

Skills:
1. Practical skills
2. Planning and organization
3. Working with others
4. Problem solving
5. Handling information
6. Analytical thinking
All taught and assessed.

Content:
1. Introduction. The medicine development process. Blockbusters.
2. Comparative overview of routes of the oral, colonic and rectal routes of drug administration. Physiological aspects that determine drug absorption and disposition. Importance of the dosage form.
3. Preformulation (salts, crystal, polymorphs and case studies in preformulation)
4. Micromeritcs and calorimetry in pharmaceutical development
5. Excipients
6. Oral solid dosage forms: powders, granules, tablets, capsules, lozenges, advanced oral drug delivery systems.
7. Pharmacopeias. Tests on oral solid dosage forms. Dissolution. IVIVC.
8. Formulation of suppositories. Rectal drug delivery
9. Packaging and labelling. GMP
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

PA30286 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
NB. Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.