Essential Pharmaceutics

Description

Particularly in healthcare fields, there is growing movement away from traditional lecture style course towards active learning and team-based activities to improve learning and build higher level thinking through application of complex problems with a strong foundation of facts and data. Essential Pharmaceutics is suited to this modern teaching style, and is the first book of its kind to provide the resources and skills needed for successful implementation of an active learning pharmaceutics course.This text offers a format that is specifically suited for integration in an active learning, team-based classroom setting. It is ideal for self-learning for the beginning pharmaceutics student, based upon the extensive utilization of figures, tables, and its overview of essential topics in pharmaceutics. Also unique to this text is the integration of case studies based upon modern pharmaceutical products which are designed to reinforce importance pharmaceutical concepts and teach essential skills in literature review and patent searching. Case studies covering all topics covered in the text have been developed by the authors that allow application of the content in the flipped-classroom pharmaceutical course. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Essential Pharmaceutics in the Flipped Classroom (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 1-9 Preformulation in Drug Product Design (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 11-33 Capsule and Tablet Dosage Forms (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 35-57 Modified Release Solid Oral Dosage Forms (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 59-72 Solution-Based Dosage Forms and Sterile Products (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 73-89 Disperse Systems: Suspensions (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 91-110 Disperse Systems: Emulsions (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 111-121 Ophthalmic and Otic Drug Delivery (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 123-130 Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 131-147 Rectal and Vaginal Drug Delivery (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 149-161 Pulmonary Drug Delivery (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 163-181 Nasal Drug Delivery (Ashlee D. Brunaugh, Hugh D. C. Smyth, Robert O. Williams III)....Pages 183-187 Back Matter ....Pages 189-193