PHSC 1423 - Biopharmaceutics (3)

The purpose of this course is to enable student pharmacists to understand basic pharmacokinetic concepts and its application to characterizing drug exposure with various routes of drug administration. The first portion of this class will introduce student pharmacists to basic pharmacokinetic principles and calculations for drugs that exhibit first-order kinetics, while the later portion of the course will reinforce important physiochemical properties and formulation strategies used in the preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems. This information is critical to the design or selection of optimal dosing regimens in various patient populations and the application of advanced or clinical pharmacokinetics concepts in practice. This course is critical to providing the foundation for subsequent courses in Advanced Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, and Pharmacotherapy.