When the head aches, all of the body partakes of the pain. Cervantes, author of Don Quixote Likewise, when pharmacists drug miscalculations and mismeasurements, or their failure to prevent them, hurt or kill a person, all pharmacists partake of the public's loss of confidence in us. It is the study of the measurement units, and mathematical functions and applications that are essential to the safe, accurate practice of pharmacy. This course emphasizes pharmaceutical nomenclature, numerical expressions, measurement equivalents, calculation formulas, and problem analysis and reasoning. Course Format Pharmaceutics I meets for two 50-minute periods weekly.
Classes are devoted to problem-solving methods and explanations, and quizzes and tests.
Course Faculty Dr. Newton, and occasionally Dr. Robbie Kidd or Dr. Gina Peacock. M.J. Stoklosa and H.C. Ansel. Course Goals 1. Students are expected to learn assigned numerical values and measurement units of pharmaceutical weight and volume equivalents. Students are expected to learn assigned prescription dispensing and medical terms and symbols.