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Orientation and History of Pharmacy

Course Code :
PHT 111
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
2.00 Hours
Department :
Faculty of Pharmacy

Instructor information :

Title:Lecturer
Name: Maha Osama Abdelaziz Mohamed Elkayal
Office hours:-Hours

Title:Associate Professor
Name: NADA MOHAMED ALI ANWAR MOHAMED ELHOFFY
Office hours:-Hours

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For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Orientation and History of Pharmacy

This course is designed to help the student to understand scope of pharmacy, pharmacy careers and the role of pharmacists in different careers. The course comprises also pharmacy education and pharmaceutical national and international organizations. This course provides the student with the historical background of pharmaceutical sciences and the development of pharmacy profession in ancient Egypt and Arab countries. This course also involves introduction to dosage forms, definition and their classification and additives. The course also includes an introduction to standard prescription notation and familiarization with pharmaceutical Latin terms for weights and volumes. Incompatibilities in prescriptions, their types and methods of corrections are also included.