310390 (v.1) Pharmaceutics 322

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.5
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2.5 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Once-only
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):
Syllabus:	Rationale for drug stability and its evaluation. Decomposition by hydrolysis, oxidation and photolysis. Effects of pH, temperature, solvent, buffers, antioxidants, complexing agents, packaging and surface active agents on drug stability. Physical degradation. Polypeptides. Determination and calculation of shelf-life, cold chain principles for drugs and vaccines, accelerated storage testing. Role of stability in drug development. Physico-chemical interactions. Aseptic techniques, laminar flow and cytotoxic facilities, compounding of sterile pharmaceuticals, sterilisation by filtration, IV admixtures and TPN, sterility testing. Targeted delivery of pharmaceuticals. Transdermal, nasal, pulmonary, ophthalmic, sublingual/buccal, implants as routes of administration. Gene and protein delivery.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060117 Internal Medicine
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External