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32044 - Technology, Socio-economics and Pharmaceutical Legislation I (GR-B)

Academic Year 2018/2019

                
                        Docente:
                        Maurizio Cini
                    
                        Credits:
                        13
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Maurizio Cini
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Maurizio Cini
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                            Nadia Passerini
                            (Modulo 3)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
                                
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                            Pharmacy (cod. 8413)

                                Also valid for
                                
                                    Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                                    
                                        Pharmacy (cod. 8413)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The purpore of this course is to introduce pharmacy students to the principles, practices and technologies applied in the preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms: powders, granules, tablets, capsules, solutions, eye drops, ointments, creams, emulsions, suspensions, gels, suppositories.

Fundamentals on Italian low and regulation issues relevant to pharmacist professional practice in pharmacy.

Course contents

Pharmaceutical technology (part I)

Introduction to medicines and dosage forms. Principles of biopharmaceutics.

Solid dosage forms. Powders. Granules and granulation. Tablets and compaction. Coating of tablets and multiparticulates. Hard and soft capsules. Suppositories and pessaries.

Liquid dosage forms. Interfacial phenomena. Properties of solutions, suspensions, emulsions. Syrups. Sterilization and sterile dosage forms. Parenterals.

Semisolid dosage forms. Principles of rheology. Creams, ointments, gels and pastes.

Legislation (part II)

Fundamentals on Italian low and regulation issues relevant to pharmacist professional practice in pharmacy.

Pharmacy Practice Laboratory (part III)

Preparation of the following galenic formulations: capsules, syrups, suspensions, emulsions, creams, ointments, pastes, suppositories and pessaries. Calculation of price, packaging and labeling.

Readings/Bibliography

P. Colombo et al., Principi di tecnologia farmaceutica, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano (2015).

M. Aulton, K. Taylor, Aulton's Pharmaceutics. The Design and Manufacture of Medicines, Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, London (2013).

F. Bettiol, Manuale delle preparazioni galeniche, Tecniche Nuove, Milano (2016).

E. Ragazzi, Galenica pratica - Formulazione e tecnologia, Libreria Internazionale Cortina, Padova (2006).

M. Cini, P. Rampinelli, Compendio di legislazione farmaceutica, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino (2008).

Farmacopea Ufficiale Italiana.

Teaching methods

Part I: lectures (48 hours).

Part II: lectures (24 hours).

Part III: practical experience in the laboratory to individual place (48 hours).

Assessment methods

Part I and II: oral test.

Part III: preparation of a galenic formulation, calculation of price, packaging and labeling.

Teaching tools

Part I and II: Power Point presentation.

Part III: laboratory equipments.

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Cini

See the website of Nadia Passerini