Semester/Year: 2/1

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

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.