Pharmaceutical Propedeutics

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Topic

This course is an introduction to the discipline of pharmaceutics (propedeutics), within pharmacist's hierarchy, their relationship with other healthcare workers and current specialties are also introduced. Students get a review on fundamentals and basic terms of pharmaceutics. Design and manufacture of medicine, and proper use of dosage forms is also demonstrated.

Lectures

• 1. Pharmacist's hierarchy in the healthcare - Pál Szilárd
• 2. Characteristics of the pharmaceutical education, its structure, disciplines, career opportunities - Pál Szilárd
• 3. Origin of pharmacy, present and future - Pál Szilárd
• 4. Pharmacy as a healthcare institution - Pál Szilárd
• 5. Role of the pharmaceutical industry and wholesalers, drug control - Pál Szilárd
• 6. Mid-term written assessment - Pál Szilárd
• 7. Relationship between the healthcare workers (physicians, medical staff, pharmacists, nurses) - Pál Szilárd
• 8. Equipment in the pharmacy, appliances for the manufacture of medicines - Pál Szilárd
• 9. Equipment and methods for pharmaceutical measurement, concept of the pharmaceutical accuracy; preparation - Kása Péter
• 10. Mid-term written assessment - Pál Szilárd
• 11. Basics of preparation processes liquid - Kása Péter
• 12. Basics of preparation processes semi-solid and solids - Pál Szilárd
• 13. Pharmaceutical literature, pharmacopoeias, Formulae Normales in Hungary - Kása Péter
• 14. End-year assessment - Pál Szilárd

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Official pharmacopoeias (Ph. Hg. VIII., Ph. Eur.)

Formulae Normales VII. (FoNo VII.)

Pharmindex Compendium

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

Conditions for the acceptance of the semester are as follows:

Students are required to complete 2 written assessments during the semester on predetermined dates. The cumulative result of these assessments must be at least 60.1%. The institute provides an opportunity to make up any missed assessments; failure to take advantage of this opportunity results in a grade of 0% for that assessment. If the combined result of the two written assessments is below 60.1%, two opportunities for improvement are provided, in accordance with the Code of Studies and Examinations. The first retake assessment must achieve a minimum grade of 60.1%. If the first retake assessment is unsuccessful/insufficient, the second retake assessment must also achieve at least 60.1% for semester acceptance (provided that absences have not exceeded the specified limit).
The mid-semester grade is calculated based on the average of the assessments.

Making up for missed classes

Students must fulfil requirements determined by the Code of Studies and Examinations. Students have to bring a medical certificate. Topic of missed lectures has to be made up for in the form of a short written report (approx. 1 page, font size: 12)

Exam topics/questions

Students will receive the topic lists in the Institute and/or on the website.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Kása Péter
• Pál Szilárd