Semester/Year:1/1
Lec.+lab/week: (2+0) hours
An introductory course in pharmacy describing the history and evolution of the profession. Some important definitions concerning pharmaceutical sciences, types of dosage forms, and routes of drug administration. The duties of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and their roles in the society are also described, in addition to the general laws regulating pharmacy practice, and pharmaceutical services in Kuwait.
The course provides background on the history of pharmacy, profession and its development as well as on the pharmacist's role and his/her duties in the society. The course discusses the role and duties of pharmacy technician's in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and an introduction to their legal responsibilities and technical activities. Sources of pharmaceuticals and introduction to drug actions, doses, dosage forms, routes of administration, response to drugs, pharmacokinetics of drug absorption, prescription and non-prescription drugs, quality control and drug toxicity are also included.