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Course description

• Course content
• Learning outcome
• Admission
• Prerequisites

• Teaching
• Examination
• Evaluation

Course content

The course gives a thorough description of:

• physicochemical properties of importance for the production, quality and biological effect of dosage forms,
• the relation between biopharmaceutical parameters and formulation principles,
• and the use of isotopes and production of radiopharmaceutics for application in therapy and diagnosis.

Learning outcome

After finishing the course you should have the following qualifications:

• Be able to solve problems related to the formulation, production, stability and quality control of pharmaceuticals
• Have a thorough understanding of biopharmaceutical principles, preformulation and formulation of dosage forms, and the concept "functionality"
• Have a thorough understanding of accellerated stability studies and kinetics
• Have an overview and understanding for the official regulations and requirements valid for the drug substance, excipents and final product
• Have an overview and understanding for the clinical and diagnostic application of isotopes

Admission

The course is only available to students enrolled at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

In order to participate in this course, all earlier Pharmacy courses up to and through FRM2010 must be passed and all manditory activities from FRM2020 , FRM2030 and FRM2040 must be approved.
In order to sit for the exam: all earlier Pharmacy courses up to and through FRM2040 must be passed.

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)
There are compulsory HSE courses at the beginning of the first semester. For students commencing their program from the autumn semester 2015 the following courses are mandatory:

• HMS0501 - Safety and Physical Environment
• HMS0502 - Positive Learning Environment
• HMS0507 - Fire Safety

In addition to this you will have to complete HMS0503 - Laboratory Safety and HMS0506 Patient clinic Safety for participation in Laboratory and clinic-courses in the program.

You will need to provide documentation that you have passed HMS0501, HMS0502, HMS0503 HMS0506 and HMS0507 when you attend the first mandatory lab.

For students who commenced the program from the Autumn semester 2012 up til and including the spring semester 2015 the following courses are mandatory:

• MNHMS0015 - Introduction to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) (discontinued) or HMS0501 - Safety and Physical Environment and HMS0502 - Positive Learning Environment and HMS0507 - Fire Safety.
• MNHMS0010LS - Introduction to Laboratory Safety (discontinued) or MNHMS0020LS - In-Depth Laboratory Safety (discontinued) or HMS0503 - Laboratory Safety
• MNHMS0015FS - Introduction to Field Safety (discontinued)  or HMS0504 Field Safety.
  
  For more information on the HSE courses and transitional arrangements:
  http://www.mn.uio.no/english/studies/courses/hse-courses.html

Teaching

Lectures, seminar groups, compulsory demonstration in nuclear pharmacy.

Inactivity and / or excessive absences in compulsory education means that the student does not receive final assessment / examination.

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.

Examination

A six hour written exam

Examination support material

As of 1 August, 2016, the use of own calculators is no longer permitted. Casio FX-991EX calculators are handed out to all exam candidates at the beginning of the exam.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Explanations and appeals

• Explanation of grades and appeals

Resit an examination

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

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

Withdrawal from an examination

It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.

Special examination arrangements

Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.

Evaluation

The course is subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students to participate in a more comprehensive evaluation.