Galenical Pharmacy

Recommended Prerequisites

Applied Physics, Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biology

Teaching Methods

The lecture and laboratory are taught to enable students to grasp selective and integrated scientific knowledge as a result of a logical and deductible. Subjects are systematized, aiming to achieve the competencies that are established for this teaching unit. Laboratory classes lasting two hours to allow practical work described above and contribute to the achievement of the proposed objectives.

Learning Outcomes

- Overview of drug design, formulation, preparation, dispensing and administration.
- Understanding of the scientific foundations underlying the main operations aimed at transforming the active substance into the pharmaceutical form.
- Identification, distinction and classification of different pharmaceutical forms.
- Preparation, control and dispensing of manipulated medicines and application of Good Practices.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theoretical Program
1. Introduction to Galenic Pharmacy.
2. Manipulated in Pediatrics
3. Bibliography in Galenic Pharmacy
4. Classification of Pharmaceutical Forms
5. Solid Pharmaceutical Forms
6. Pharmaceutical Solutions
7. Dispersed Systems: Emulsions. suspensions. colloidal systems
8. Ointments.
9. Suppositories.
10. Packaging Material.
Laboratory Program
Good Practices to be observed in the preparation of manipulated. Equipment of the Galénic Laboratory. The Portuguese Galenic Form. The Portuguese Pharmacopeia and the foreign Pharmacopoeias.Demonstration of some pharmaceutical operations and techniques. Simple spraying. Intermediate spraying. Powder screening and classification.
Preparation of compound powders and pharmaceutical papers.
Calculation of drug sales prices to the public
Preparation of gelatine capsules. Completion of the Manipulated Drug preparation form
Preparation of solutions.
Preparation of suspensions and emulsions
Preparation of ointments, cream and gel

Head Lecturer(s)

Amélia Catarina Fernandes Soares Vieira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Theoretical Pratical exame - written exame - which deals with the knowledge taught in laboratory classes: 25.0%
Exam: 75.0%

Assessment
Theoretical Pratical exame - written exame - which deals with the knowledge taught in laboratory classes: 25.0%
Frequency: 75.0%

Bibliography

PRISTA, L. NOGUEIRA et. al., Tecnologia Farmacêutica 3 vols, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 8ª Edição, 2011.
RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ PACHECO (Ed.) – Tratado de Tecnología Farmacéutica. Volumen I: Sistemas farmacéuticos. Editorial Sintesis
RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ PACHECO (Ed.) – Tratado de Tecnología Farmacéutica. Volumen II: Operaciones básicas. Editorial Sintesis
RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ PACHECO (Ed.) – Tratado de Tecnología Farmacéutica. Volumen III: Formas de dosificación. Editorial Sintesis
AULTON ME; TAYLOR KMG– Aulton´s Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines, 4th Ed., Churchill Livingstone, 2013
Boas Práticas a observar na preparação de manipulados em Farmácia de Oficina e Farmácia Hospitalar, Portaria nº594/2004.
European Pharmacopoeia. 11 th ed.Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2023.
Farmacopeia Portuguesa IX. Lisboa: Infarmed-Ministério da Saúde, 2008.
Formulário Galénico Português. Associação Nacional das Farmácias, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009.
United States Pharmacopoeia XXXXII (USP42).