Pharmaceutics is interdisciplinary integrating knowledge and methods from medicine and pharmacy. It is a  comprehensive discipline, covering the basic theory, formulation design, preparation process, quality control and clinical rational application of pharmaceutical preparations. The pharmaceutics course is indispensable for the education of all pharmacy students, and plays an utmostly important role in the cultivation of medical students.The fundamental aim of pharmaceutics is to enable effective drugs delivery to their target sites by means of various dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and drug delivery device. A better understanding of pharmaceutics would be greatly beneficial for the optimization of the dosage form design of drugs, improvement of the production technology, development of novel drug delivery system, and enhancement of the product quality. Pharmaceutics is also able to provide scientific foundation for the safe, rational, and effective application of drug products in clinics. At present, innovative researches on technologies, dosage forms, excipients, and equipment of pharmaceutics have been stepping forward to a new era of rapid development, aiming to serve for the needs of precise medicine. We believe that with the continuous development of pharmaceutics and its expanding associated science and technologies , more and more novel drug delivery methods will be established, which may result in more precise, intelligent, and efficient ways to facilitate human health in the future. Meanwhile, the healthy and vigorous development of pharmaceutics will further offer tremendous assistance for boosting the pharmacy research in China to a more advanced and leading position internationally.

Upon completion of this course, you will have a good knowledge of the basic concepts and theories of pharmaceutical preparations; you will also acquire both the skills on preparing drugs into various of dosage forms and the ability on their quality control; you will be able to describe, discuss and demonstrate various pharmaceutical technologies and novel dosage forms, as well as the guidance for drug stability investigations and drug package selection.

1. Students should have the basis of medical knowledge on physiology, pathophysiology, pathology, physical chemistry, physics, organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutical analysis, etc.

2. Have a preliminary understanding of drug dosage forms and preparations, and have a strong interest.

Basic Reference Book：

1.    Aulton's Pharmaceutics (The Design and manufacture of medicines) (4th edition), CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE ELSEVIER

Further Reference Books:

2. The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy (4th edition), CBS publishers & Distributors

3. Pharmaceutics-Dosage Form and Design (2th edition), Pharmaceutical Press

4. Ansel’s Pharmaceutical Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems (9th edition), LWW

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