Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of the module of Pharmacy Legislation the student will acquire the knowledge related to the norms regulating the Pharmacy profession.
In particular, the students will have to:
1) know and understand the legislation that regulate the Pharmacy profession and the dispensing of medicinal produts (Knowledge and understanding);
2) apply the knowledge to identify the specificities and to apply the correct procedures to fullfill the most common medical prescriptions (Applying knowledge and understanding);
3) being able to integrate new national and european legislation with the acquired knowledge (Learning skills).
Upon successful completion of the module of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing the student will acquire the advanced knowledge in pharmaceutics and the basics concepts to understand the world of Pharmaceutical companies.
In particular, the students will have to:
1) Know and understand industry organization and the fundamental requirements of pharmaceutical manufacturing, through the knowlege of the GMP (Knowledge and understanding);
2) Be acquainted with the manufacturing processes of the most common dosage forms (Knowledge and understanding);
3) Be able to understand and autonomously evaluate the risks and regulatory requirments in terms of quality, efficacy and safety of the most common pharmaceutical manufactuting procesess (Applying knowledge and understanding).
Prerequisites
Students are required to take the exam of Pharmaceutical Technology before registering for the exam of Pharmacy Legislation/Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
Course unit content
The subject is organized in two separate Modules: the course of Pharmacy Legislation and the course of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
The module of Pharmacy Legislation is going to give the students an overview of the norms related to the Pharmacy profession and medicines dispensing. The module is divided in three parts:
1) A general introduction to pharmacy legislation including European regulations and directives on medicinal products and pharmacy profession, the Pharmacy guild and the National Healthcare System.
2) A second part dedicated to the administrative classification, procedures for the attribution of new pharmacies, pharmacy ownership, formal and unformal substitution of the pharmacy director.
3) The final part of the module is dedicated to the procedures for obtaining the manufacturing and marketing authorization for medicinal produducts, the classification of medicinal products and their dispensing, norms relative to over the counter products, veterinary medicinal products, herbal products, medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and cosmetics.
The module of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing is offering to the students the knowledge related to the norms regulating the manufacturing of medicinal products and directed to make available to the public medicines with the highest standard of quality, safety and efficacy. In order to achieve this goal the course will provide the basic concepts on the current regulations and modern manufacturing approaches for the production of medicinal products starting from intellectual property protection, addressing good manufacturing practice and quality by design and providing practical examples related to the manufacture of a number of dosage forms.
Full programme
Pharmacy Legislation:
International regulations
Italian Healthcare system
Classification of pharmacies and distribution on the territory
Ethics of the pharmacist
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Standards for the production and trade of medicinal products for human
Classification of medicines
Pharmacopoeias
Discipline dispensing the medicines to the public
Medicinal products not subject to medical prescription
Regulations for Veterinary Medicinal Products
Regulations for medical devices,
Pharmacovigilance
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- Structure and organization of pharmaceutical plants
- Good manufacturing practice
- Validation
- Water for pharmaceutical productions
- Drying
- Mixing of liquids
- Mixing of powders
- Filtration
- Milling
- Tabletting
- Capsules Manufacturing
- Manufacturing of sterile dosage forms
- Packaging
Bibliography
Pharmacy Legislation
M. MARCHETTI, P. MINGHETTI: "Legislazione Farmaceutica", Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Nona Ed. (2018)
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
L. FABRIS A. RIGAMONTI “La Fabbricazione Industriale Dei Medicinali” Societa’ Editrice Esculapio, Ed 2008
Support Books (available at Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco):
P. Colombo, P.L. Catellani, A. Gazzaniga, E. Menegatti, E. Vidale: "Principi di Tecnologie Farmaceutiche", 2° Ed. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 2015.
Farmacopea Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, XII Edizione, IstitutomPoligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma (2008);
European pharmacopoeia 9 Ed. Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2016
Lecture slides are made available to students on Elly portal (http://elly.saf.unipr.it/), every week.
Teaching methods
Both modules are taught through a series of lectures, integrated with scientific papers, documents and online materials useful for the understanding and enrichment of the subject discussed in class.
All slides are made available online at the Elly website (elly.saf.unipr.it). Slides are a integral part of the studying material.
Students will be constantly reminded the appropriate technical language, exposed to professional case studies, invited to understand the underlying connections between different parts of the course and other subjects and will be stimulated to actively participate to the lectures with interactive discussions.
An attendance at least of 75% of lectures is required, while the frequency of all the laboratory sessions is compulsory.
Assessment methods and criteria
The oral exams consist of three questions for the Pharmacy Legislation module and three for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing module.
For both the modules to students attending the lesson is proposed an evaluation of the semester learning through written test at the end of the teaching of each module. The test consists in multiple choice questionnaire of 30 MCQ. The results obtained constitute the basis for the oral examination in the exam session.
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