Pharmacy

1Pharmaceutical Calculations

Cálculo Farmacêutico

Course code:9494119

Maria Edite da Silva Oliveira Torres

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

The Pharmaceutical Calculations Curricular Unit aims to provide students a basic training in quantitative methods, developing some of the concepts of this area of knowledge in an integrated way with the objectives of other Integrated Master CUs’. All topics are approached using perspectives applied to the Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Syllabus:
  1. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Measurement and Calculation
  2. Units and Conversions
  3. Lines and Curves
  4. Data Analysis and its adjustment
  5. Differential calculus applied to Pharmaceutical Sciences
  6. Integral Calculus applied to Pharmaceutical Sciences
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Ansel, HC (2010), Pharmaceutical Calculations, 11th ed., Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [ISBN: 978-1-58255-837-0].
  • Steward, J (2016), Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals. 8th ed. Boston: Cengage Learning.
  • Spruill JW, Wade EW, DiPiro JT, Blouin RA, Pruemer JM. (2014), Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics. 6th ed. Bethesda: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.