History of Pharmacy
- Pharmacy education, industry, practice, and professional associations in India.
- Pharmacy as a career.
- Introduction to pharmacopoeias: IP, BP, USP, NF, and Indian Pharmacopoeia feat
Packaging Materials
- Types and selection criteria.
- Advantages and disadvantages of glass, plastic, metal, and rubber.
Pharmaceutical Aids
- Organoleptic agents (Coloring, flavoring, sweetening).
- Preservatives: types, examples, uses.
Unit Operations
- Size reduction: hammer mill, ball mill.
- Size separation: Classification, cyclone separator, sieves.
- Mixing: Double cone blender, turbine mixer, triple roller mill, Silverson mixer homogenizer.
- Filtration: Theory, membrane filter, sintered glass filter.
- Drying: Fluidized bed dryer, freeze-drying.
- Extraction: Definition, classification, methods, applications.
Dosage Forms
- Tablets: coated, uncoated, modified (sustained release, extended-release, fast dissolving, multilayered, etc.).
- Capsules: hard, soft gelatin.
- Liquid oral preparations: solution, syrup, elixir, emulsion, suspension, dry powder for reconstitution.
- Topical preparations: ointments, creams, pastes, gels, liniments, lotions, suppositories, pessaries.
- Nasal preparations, Ear preparations.
- Powders and granules: Insufflations, dusting powders, effervescent powders, effervescent granules.
- Sterile formulations: Injectables, eye drops, eye ointments.
- Immunological products: Sera, vaccines, toxoids, manufacturing methods.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plants
- Structure, layout, sections, activities.
Quality Control and Quality Assurance
- Definitions, concepts, cGMP, calibration, validation.
Novel Drug Delivery Systems
- Introduction, classification, examples, advantages, challenges.
Pharmaceutics Practical
Course Code: ER20-11P
- Handling and referring to official references: Pharmacopoeias, Formularies, etc., for retrieving formulas, procedures, etc.
- Formulation of the following dosage forms as per monograph standards and dispensing with appropriate packaging and labeling:
- Liquid Oral: Simple syrup, Piperazine citrate elixir, Aqueous Iodine solution.
- Emulsion: Castor oil emulsion, Cod liver oil emulsion.
- Suspension: Calamine lotion, Magnesium hydroxide mixture.
- Ointment: Simple ointment base, Sulphur ointment.
- Cream: Cetrimide cream.
- Gel: Sodium alginate gel.
- Liniment: Turpentine liniment, White liniment BPC.
- Dry powder: Effervescent powder granules, Dusting powder.
- Sterile Injection: Normal Saline, Calcium gluconate Injection.
- Hard Gelatine Capsule: Tetracycline capsules.
- Tablet: Paracetamol tablets.
- Formulation of at least five commonly used cosmetic preparations (e.g., cold cream, shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, etc.).
- Demonstration of various stages of tablet manufacturing processes.
- Appropriate methods of usage and storage of all dosage forms including special dosages such as different types of inhalers, spacers, and insulin pens.
- Demonstration of quality control tests and evaluation of common dosage forms viz. tablets, capsules, emulsion, sterile injections as per the monographs.
Pharmaceutics Assignments:
Students shall submit written assignments on the following topics (One assignment per student per sessional period, i.e., a minimum of Three assignments per student):
- Various systems of measures are commonly used in prescribing, compounding, and dispensing practices.
- Market preparations (including Fixed Dose Combinations) of each type of dosage form, their generic name, a minimum of three brand names, and label contents of the dosage forms mentioned in theory/practical.
- Overview of various machines/types of equipment/instruments involved in the formulation and quality control of various dosage forms/pharmaceutical formulations.
- Overview of extemporaneous preparations at community/hospital pharmacy vs. manufacturing of dosage forms at an industrial level.
- Basic pharmaceutical calculations: ratios, conversion to percentage fraction, alligation, proof spirit, isotonicity.
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