Semester/Year: 1/1
Lec.+lab/week: (2+0) hours
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.