| رقم المقرر | اسم المقرر | عدد الوحدات | عدد الساعات | التوصيف العلمي للمقرر (عربي) | التوصيف العلمي للمقرر (انجليزي) |
| المقررات التخصصية الاجبارية | | | | | |
| 101 | Introduction to pharmacology
| 2 | 2 | - | This course is designed to provide the student with basic techniques and knowledge in understanding essential medical and pharmaceutical terms that are related to pharmaceutical practice. It introduces the student to the basic rules for interpreting, constructing, writing and spelling medical terms, in addition to discussing terminologies related to body systems, pathology, and main diagnostic tools and procedures and pharmaceutical tools and devices.
It also covers important measures and conversions used in the pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing, drugs classification and naming, and common medical and pharmaceutical abbreviations that are used in writing medical notes and in prescribing, with an emphasis on problematic prescription abbreviations. Main pharmacological and pharmaceutical terminologies and definitions will also be covered in this course. |
| 102 | Pharmacy terminology | 1 | 2 | - | This course is designed to provide the student with basic techniques and knowledge in understanding essential medical and pharmaceutical terms that are related to pharmaceutical practice. It introduces the student to the basic rules for interpreting, constructing, writing and spelling medical terms, in addition to discussing terminologies related to body systems, pathology, and main diagnostic tools and procedures and pharmaceutical tools and devices. It also covers important measures and conversions used in the pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing, drugs classification and naming, and common medical andpharmaceutical abbreviations that are used in writing medical notes and in prescribing, with an emphasis on problematic prescription abbreviations.
Main pharmacological and pharmaceutical terminologies and definitions will also be covered in this course |
| 106 | Pharmaceutical mathematics | 1 | 2 | | |
| 109 | Introduction to pharmaceutical chemistry | 3 | 4 | | A study of the introduction and basic principles of general, analytical, and pharmaceutical chemistry, together with the physicochemical properties of elements, compounds, and mixtures. The practical part of the course aids in developing the fundamental analytical laboratory skills and techniques, in addition to learn the performance of qualitative analysis of cations, anions and salts in water solutions, preparation of standard solutions, official buffer preparation, and acid-base titration. |
| 104 | Pharmaceuticals (1) | 2 | 4 | | Pharmaceutics (1) comprises units concerned with the physio-chemical, microbial, and technological aspects of the design, manufacture, stability, storage, and usage of dosage forms. |
| 121 | Introduction to practicing the profession of pharmacy technician (1) | 2 | 2 | - | The course introduces students to the field of pharmacy practice and its applications. It comprises several pharmaceutical concepts and topics including clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical patient care and the technicians' role in its delivery, unit-dose delivery system, drug-use process, good-prescription writing, general dispensing procedures, patient education, compliance, and medication errors. Basic dispensing dosage calculation skills will be reviewed. Topics including drug packaging and labeling, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, stability and storage conditions, validity and expiry date, and routes of administration are discussed. |
| 213 | Pharmaceutical chemistry | 4 | 6 | | Introduces students to the principle of pharmaceutical compounds regarding the basic chemical structure, metabolic pathways, and pharmacological effects in relation to the chemical structure. The drug structure activity relationship theory, therapeutic classes and their modes of action will be explained. Stability of the drug, methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis and relationship between chemical compound and biological-therapeutical activity will be discussed. |
| 103 | Pharmacology (1) | 2 | 3 | | This course provides the student with the essential understanding in pharmacology, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic phases of medication administration that help in safe and effective medical practice. The course will cover medication sources, routes of administration and packaging. In addition, drug forms, mechanism of action, drug interactions, and drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination will be discussed. An overview of safe medication administration, site of medication administration, and drug classifications are discussed. The primary classifications of common drugs such as analgesics, anesthetics agents, anti-infectives, cardiovascular agents, gastrointestinal agents, hematological agents, musculoskeletal agents, neurological agents, psychotropic and respiratory agents are discussed. The course also covers some basic knowledge of medication calculation, metric system, drug concentration, and some terms that students should be familiar with. |
| 105 | Pharmacy administration | 2 | 2 | | Pharmacy administration compares different sitting and types of hospitals, different types of departments
both medical, and surgical as well as supporting services. Describe the different types of hospital pharmacy, their designs and type of services they provide as well as different hospital pharmacy personal. Explain different services provided by the pharmacists in the hospital such as unit dose, labelling, checking medication errors, dispensing for in-patients and out-patients and involvement in pharmacy and therapeutic committee of the hospital. |
| 204 | Pharmaceuticals (2) | 2 | 4 | | Course provides student with pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, pharmacotherapeutic knowledge about drugs to help safe and effective dispensing of medication to patient. It includes drugs for cardiovascular disorders, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, angina pectoris and hypertension. Also, course includes diuretics, drugs for hyperlipidemia, drugs for blood disorders as drugs affecting blood coagulation and drugs for anemia. Drugs for gastrointestinal as antacids, ulcer healing drugs, antidiarrheal. Laxatives and antiemetics. Drugs for endocrine disorders as corticosteroids. Insulin, oral hypoglycemic. Sex hormones, oral contraceptives, thyroxin and antithyroid drugs. |
| 211 | pharmacology | 2 | 4 | | Course provides student withpharmacokinetic, pharmacodynbamic, pharmacotherapeutic knowledge about drugs to help safe and effective dispensing of medication to patient. It includes drugs for cardiovascular disorders, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias,anginapectoris and hypertension. Also course includes diuretics, drugs for hyperlipidemia, drugs for blood disorders as drugs affecting blood coagulation and drugs for anemia. Drugs for gastr ntesanal sorders as antacids, ulcer healing drugs, antidiarrheal. Laxatives and antiemetics.Drugs for endocrine disorders as corticosteroids. Insulin, oral hypoglycemic. Sex hormones, oral contraceptives, thyroxin and antithyroid drugs. |
| 218 | Pharmaceutical microbiology | 3 | 6 | | The course covers classification and structure of microorganisms, gene transfer, microbial growth, industrial fermentation, microbial contamination, spoilage and preservation of pharmaceutical preparations, principles of sterilization, microbial pathogenicity, immunity system, examples of infectious diseases, and antimicrobial agents. The practical part covers microbial morphology, aseptic techniques, media preparation, spore resistance, immunity to disease, microbial contamination, antimicrobial preservatives and disinfectants, sterilization and sterility testing of pharmaceutical preparations, microbial susceptibility to antibiotics. Practical hours are included. |
| 220 | Drug control | 1 | 2 | | This course provides the basic information of quality control of pharmaceutical compounds including chemical, pharmaceutical, and biological methods. The course also comprises a review on the application of the instrumental techniques in quality control. |
| 221 | Practicing the profession of pharmacy technician (2)
| 2 | 6 | | This course provides an opportunity to work in a small-scale pharmacy settings under a pharmacist's supervision. Emphasis is placed on effective communication with personnel, developing proper employee attitude, and dispensing of medications. Student will be exposed to the practical aspects of dispensing, small scale non-sterile compounding, receiving medicines requests from central medical stores, bookkeeping and recording, and inventory control at the training site in a primary health care unit of the Ministry of Health. Activities will be performed by the student and evaluated by a preceptor. This practical field experience will be once a week throughout the term (a total of 72 hours oftraining). |
| 203 | Pharmacology (2) | 2 | 3 | |
Pharmaceutics II is a continuation of pharmaceutics I. |
| 215 | Seminar in pharmacy | 1 | 2 | | An orientation to library uses regarding reference search and abstract of articles. It also includes students' presentation at the weekly "Journal Club" table discussion session and extensive review reports in individually assigned topic of professional inters. |
| 217 | Ready-made pharmaceutical preparations | 1 | 2 | | |
| 222 | Practicing the profession of pharmacy technician (3) | 1 | 2 | | This course is a continuation of the previous one. Emphasis is placed on some pharmaceutical skills such as compounding, pharmaceutical preparations, dispensing of prescribed pharmaceutical products, drug inventories, storage, checking pharmacy records as well as on effective communication with personnel and developing proper employee attitude. Student will be exposed to the practical aspects of dispensing, non-sterile compounding, and inventory control at the training site in a primary health care unit of the Ministry of Health. Activities will be performed by the student and evaluated by a preceptor. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of pharmacy operations, utilize references, effectiveness in reading prescriptions, drug packaging and labeling, dispense medications, receiving medicines requests from central medical stores, recording, and efficiently operate computers. This practical field experience will be once a week throughout the term (a total of 72 hours of training). |
| 224 | Industrial pharmacy | 3 | 6 | | This course comprises of pharmaceutical aerosols and topics concerned with the pharmaceuticaltechnology (principles of pharmaceutical processing |
| 225 | Toxins and safety | 2 | 3 | | Course provides students with essentials principles in general toxicology and poison, systemic toxicology, guideline on preparation and treatment of poisoning, analysis of toxicant and common toxic agents.
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