Main description:

FASTtrack Physical Pharmacy focuses on what you really need to know in order to pass your exams. Concise, bulleted information and all-important self-assessment questions including MCQs. This FASTtrack book is derived from the textbook Physiochemical Principles of Pharmacy and is designed to be used alongside it for those revision periods when time is short. It includes learning objectives, self-assessment questions and memory maps to aid with revision. The fully updated third edition includes new chapters, thus bringing it in line with the sixth edition of Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy Are your exams coming up? Are you drowning in textbooks and lecture notes and wondering where to begin? Take the FASTtrack route to successful study for your examinations. FASTtrack provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams..

Contents:

1. Solids
2. Solid dosage forms
3. Solubility and solution properties of drugs
4. Drug stability
5. Surfactants
6. Emulsions, suspensions and other dispersed systems
7. Polymers
8. Drug absorption and delivery
9. Paediatric and geriatric medicines
10. Physicochemical drug interactions and incompatibilities
11. Adverse events - the role of formulations and delivery systems
12. Peptides, proteins and monoclonal antibodies
13. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology
14. In vitro assessment of dosage forms
15. Generic medicines and biosimilars