FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

After completing the course:

• you understand the basic principles of quality assurance related to pharmaceutical production and how the quality is designed and built into the products.
• you have broad knowledge of oral dosage forms based on powders, including powders for inhalation, and you have command of formulation of conventional solid dosage forms based on powder/powder blends.
• you are able to plan, carry out and document production of solid dosage forms and undertake pharmaceutical technical testing of the products according to the Pharmacopoeia including evaluation and discussion of the results.
• you have broad knowledge of and can evaluate how selection of the quality of raw materials, production process and process conditions as well as unwanted events during production will influence the quality of the product.
• you are able to find relevant information from official sources and reference books, and apply this in discussion of pharmaceutical challenges related to solid dosage forms.
• you have basic knowledge of biopharmaceutical properties of oral dosage forms, which entails the relationship between solubility, release, absorption, and plasma concentration.
• you have basic knowledge and understanding of principles for modified release and dissolution (release) testing of solid oral dosage forms, and knowledge of personalized dosage forms.

• FARM1100 – Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• FARM1110 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 1
• FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy
• FARM1130 – Pharmaceutically Based Organic Chemistry
• FARM1140 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 2
• FARM1150 – Pharmaceutical Based Biochemistry
• The compulsory HSE-courses HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety and HMS0507 – Fire Safety required for students at the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy.

Course exemption: Laws and regulations describing the overall learning outcome regulate the Pharmacy programme. Exemptions are only granted if all learning outcomes in the course are covered.

Exemption is only granted for FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics if all of the overlapping courses are passed: FRM2020 – Production, Quality Control and Distribution of Medicinal products (discontinued), FRM2030 – Quality Assurance in Drug Production (discontinued) and FRM3000 – Pharmaceutics (discontinued).

The information about overlaps is not complete.

The course includes lectures, seminars, simulations, laboratory work and excursion:

• 24 hours of lectures - the introductory lecture is compulsory
• 15 laboratory lectures (compulsory)
• 40 hours of laboratory work with written reports (compulsory)
• 3 hours data-simulations
• 20 hours seminars

Compulsory participation in the course must be completed and approved and compulsory submissions must be approved to sit the exam. Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities (only in Norwegian).

As the teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance. Read about your insurance cover as a student.

Access to teaching: A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Completed and approved compulsory instruction and coursework are valid for 3 years.

Final written exam which counts 100 % towards the final grade.

For admission to the exam the following must be approved:

• Participation in all laboratory lectures and all laboratory work including submitted reports.

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination