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Dosage Form Technology and Practical Pharmacy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:25.03.2022 15:47:59
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | FF_016 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Pharmacy; Technology of Drug Forms | Target Audience: | Pharmacy | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Baiba Mauriņa | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Pharmacy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, ff rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67409129 | ||||||||
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| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
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| Preliminary Knowledge: | Successfully completed study courses Industrial Dosage Form Technology, Pharmaceutical Compounding, Practical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation, State Practice. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the national degree examination in pharmaceutical technology and practical pharmacy is to provide the knowledge, skills and competence necessary for obtaining the qualification of a pharmacist. | ||||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independently get acquainted with the National Degree examination program in Pharmaceutical Technology and Practical Pharmacy and independently repeat the study courses Industrial Dosage Form Technology, Pharmaceutical Compounding, Practical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation in accordance with the requirements of the program. The examination includes 100 questions, of which in the part of practical pharmacy and pharmaceutical legislation (including also pharmacoeconomics) - 50 questions, in pharmaceutical compounding - 15 questions and in industrial dosage form technology - 35 questions. The questions will include the tasks of the situation, the correctness of the technological solution, the latest changes in the regulatory enactments regulating the field of pharmacy. The student must demonstrate knowledge, skills and competence in pharmaceutical technology, preparation of medicines, production and control of medicines, supply, manufacture, control, storage, distribution and dispensing of safe, effective and appropriate quality medicinal products in community pharmacies, medical institutions, wholesalers. Each part, with the exception of pharmaceutical compounding, shall contain at least 10% of the questions with multiple correct answers. The tasks of the practical pharmacy part determine the maximum number of points that can be obtained in each of the tasks. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The Practical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation part is assessed with one mark and the Pharmaceutical Technology Part, which includes industrial pharmaceutical technology and pharmaceutical compounding, with the other mark. Answers to questions with several correct answers are evaluated in proportion to the marked correct and incorrect answers, but answers to questions with only one correct answer with 1 or 0 points. The average grade of both marks gives the result of the National Degree examination, but if any of the marks is unsuccessful, the whole test is also assessed as unsuccessful. The student has the right to retake the unsuccessful National Degree examination not earlier than in the next National Degree examination session. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | National degree examination | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | National degree examination | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will know, will be able to explain and perform principles and methods of preparation of medicinal products in pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies, will be competent in ensuring of the movement of medicinal products in healthcare system; will be able to evaluate the impact of manufacturing and storing conditions on the quality of medicinal products. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will be able to develop and standardise dosage forms, to follow amendments in legal enactments of the Republic of Latvia regulating the field of pharmacy, follow current normative documents of the European Union in the field of health and recommendations set by the World Health Organisation and observe them in own pharmaceutical work. Will be able to apply basic principles of business and marketing in the pharmaceutical work. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will be able to manage the work of auxiliary staff, pharmacist' assistant, will be full-fledged member of healthcare team and cooperate with other healthcare professionals on the basis of mutual respect. | ||||||||
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| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | VP programma/program | ||||||||
