FASTtrack: Physical Pharmacy
Attwood, David; Florence, Alexander T.
Second edition
David Attwood - Professor Emeritus, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester; and Alexander T. Florence - Professor Emeritus, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK
Are your exams coming up? Are you drowning in textbooks and lecture notes and wondering where to begin? Take the FASTtrack route to study successfully 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.
FASTtrack: Physical Pharmacy focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams providing concise, bulleted information, chapter overviews, key points, and an all-important self-assessment section which includes multiple choice questions (MCQs).
This FASTtrack book is a revision guide for students giving bullet points of basic information on physical pharmacy. This text is derived from the textbook Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy and is designed to be used alongside it for those revision periods when time is short. It includes key points, tips, self assessment questions/answers and memory maps to aid with revision.
For this second edition there is a new chapter added on pharmaceutical nanotechnology, and clinical notes are incorporated, in line with the new edition of Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy.
FASTtrack: Physical Pharmacy is also available as an ebook.
Visit the FASTtrack website for extra MCQs, sample online content and much more.
1. Solids
2. Solubility and Solution Properties of Drugs
3. Drug Stability
4. Surfactants
5. Emulsions, Suspensions and Other Dispersed Systems
6. Polymers
7. Drug Absorption
8. Physicochemical Drug Interactions and Incompatibilities
9. Peptides, Proteins and Other Biopharmaceuticals
10. In Vitro Assessment of Dosage Forms
11. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
Answers to self-assessment
Eponymous equations
From the reviews of the previous edition:
01-Jan-08, Doody Enterprises, Inc
'As a guide to the candidates appearing for the registration examination, this book has no shortcomings. This book is undoubtedly helpful to candidates appearing for registration examinations.'
Rahmat M Talukder (Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy). Doody Enterprises, Inc. January 2008
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Textbook
ISBN 978 0 85711 064 0
Published Jul 2012
Paperback
234 x 156mm (232pp)



