FA501: Pharmacy introductory course
Entry requirements
Academic preconditions
Course introduction
In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:
•Give the competence to apply study and learning strategies to organize their own learning in relation to intended learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment tasks.
•Give the skills to establish working relations with fellow students and describe their own role as an active participant in the study program’s social and academic activities.
•Give knowledge and understanding of concepts and principles in selected analytical methods described in pharmacopeia monographs.
•Give knowledge and understanding of the selected methods applicability and knowledge of potential errors related to these methods.
•Give knowledge and understanding of GLP.
•Give knowledge and understanding of substances water solubility.
•Give skills to handle analytical laboratory equipment such as analytical balance, volumetric flask, pH-meter, burette, UV-spectrophotometer, TPC plate ect.
•Give skills in GLP including to conduct laboratory notebook
•Give skills to suitable pipetting, including function check and calibration.
•Give skills to calculate substance concentrations and dilution factors used to perform fx. stock solutions and standards that are used for drawing and application of standard curves.
•Give skills to calculate the precision of the applied quantitative procedures.
•Give skills to identify and determine concentrations of single compounds in solution by titration and by spectrophotometry
•Give skills to prepare a detailed protocol for simple volumetric and gravimetric methods according to the description in monographs from pharmacopoeias.
•Give competences to discuss Ph. Eur’s requirements to accuracy and precision related to the applied procedures including the basic single operations (fx. weigh, and volumetric measure of the single operations).
•Give competences to discuss issues in relation to regular analysis of drug substances/drugs.
•Give competences to independently plan and perform regular analytical laboratory experiments according to the laboratory security regulations and competences to document results according to the course guidelines in report writing.
•Give competence to be involved in workflows where focus is on GLP.
Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course are that the student demonstrates the ability to:
•Apply study and learning strategies to plan own learning process in accordance with intended learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment methods.
•Establish academical relations to other students and describe their role as an active participant in the study programs social and academical environment.
•Define terms and substantiate principles and applications of the selected analytical methods described in pharmacopeia monographs.
•Define GLP.
•Apply and handle analytical laboratory equipment and prepare stock solutions, dilutions and stand solutions for fx calibration curves
•Give an account of planning, documentation, execution and reporting quantitative and qualitative compound analysis by spectrophotometry, titration and TLC.
•Calculate concentrations and dilution factors used in stock solutions, dilutions and standards fx for preparation and application of calibration curves and standard curves.
•Calculate and draw standard curves in Excel or similar program
•Calculate precision of the selected procedure.
•Apply and give an account of the selected analytical methods described in the updated pharmacopeias
•Account for solubility of ionized compounds
•Describe and discuss the analytical experiments according the course report writing guidelines
•The student specifies and analyzes a problem in pre-formulated form and communicates the solving process and the result of the process.
•The student identifies different science representations (textual, auditory, visual, symbolic, iconic, graphical, tabular, static or dynamic) and applies them in problem solving.
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The examination form for re-examination may be different from the exam form at the regular exam.
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Participation in laboratory exercises and approval of reports
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Prerequisites
| Type | Prerequisite name | Prerequisite course |
|---|---|---|
| Examination part | Prerequisites for participating in the exam a) | N560026101, FA501: Pharmacy introductory course |
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Indicative number of lessons
Teaching Method
- Intro phase (lectures) - Hours: 17
- Skill training phase - Hours: 78, of these 42 are tutorials and 36 is laboratory exercises.
- Study phase - Hours: 24
The intro phase consist of lectures for the entire class. Here an overwiev og the topic is given, with af brief introduction and perspective. The students are engaged in the lecture by e.g. Polle Everywhere, where they can ask or answer questions about the topic reviewed. This provides an incentive to participate in learning, while retaining one's anonymity.
The class are divided into smaller teams for the training phase, which together participate in both tutorials and compulsory laboratory classes. The tutorials are planned to facilitate "active learning", where the students through active participation work with the course topics. Through e.g. problem solving, in groups or independently, the students are inspired to move higher up the taxonomic ladder.
During the laboratory work, the students work in pairs to perform practical exercises withing the course's subject area. This results in reports which form part of the assesment of the students learning.
The study phase are organized so the students work with study-suppotive subject, which facilitate their abillities to participate in active learning. E.g. becoming aware of their learning style and how to accomodate it, exercises with excel, word or similar to be used in reports, etc. In addition will cooperative leaning be considered added to various tasks.
Activities in the studyphase:
- Identification of own learning style and how to best utilize it.
- Note taking techniques for use in lectures and reading syllabus.
- Calculation tasks.
- Practice the most important functions in excel and word, used in the pharmacy education.
Teacher responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Frants Roager Lauritsen | frl@sdu.dk | Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci |
| Nadia Guldfeldt Bæk | ngb@sdu.dk | Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci |