Curriculum
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- DRUG INFORMATION AND EVIDENCE-BASED PHARMACY
- This module aims to practise methods to retrieve, evaluate and disseminate information about medication. It provides students opportunities to study biostatistics which is used in pharmaceutical, pharmacological and medical researches and communication skills for effective pharmaceutical care.
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- FORENSIC CHEMISTRY
- In the case of misuse or abuse of illegal drugs, drugs or their related substances in blood, hair, urine, or biological tissues should be identified and quantified to determine the association of drugs with crimes or accidental cases. This is a field of forensic toxicity and plays an important role in providing scientific evidence to criminal investigation. It becomes possible only when understanding the characteristics of biological samples and basic knowledge of various instrumental analysis can be used in combination.
The goal of this lecture is to learn pharmaceutical knowledge that can be practically applied to forensic toxicology by using knowledge learned in the pharmaceutical instrumental analysis.
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- HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- It covers the exploration of the structure and function of each type of cells, then, extends the study on integumentary, musculoskeletal, joints, nervous system, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, digestive, and finally to reporductive system. The understanding of the structure and function of each organ systems solidify the knowledge on human body as a prerequisite for understanding of pathophysiology.
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- MEDICINAL TERMINOLOGY
- This course is designed to cover medical terminologies which are useful to study physiology, anatomy, pathophysiology and pharmacology. Prefixes, suffixes, word roots, combining forms, abbreviations, and symbols are included in the content. Emphasis is placed on spelling, definition, usage and pronunciation of glossaries.
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- ORGANIC PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY
- The course deals with carbonyls, amines, and heterocycles focusing on their physicochemical properties, synthetic methods, and reactivities, which is essential for understanding activity and toxicity of pharmaceuticals and for new drug development.
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- CELL BIOLOGY
- The basic unit of living things in our planet, except virus, are expressed as a cell that can replicates itself and synthesizes chemicals for life maintenance. The class ‘cell biology’ extensively studies the function of cellular compartments such as ER and mitochondria
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- EXPERIMENT III
- This course is designed to unite the theory and practice of the physiology, pharmacology and toxicology. Emphasis is placed on the development of principles of various techniques and participation in laboratory experiments in these fields.
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- IMMUNO THERAPY
- The manufacturing, purification and formulation processes as well as adminstration strategy of biopharmaceutical drugs for protein therapy, cell therapy, or gene therapy, which is manufactured based on gene recombination or cell fusion technology, will be taught for the basic comprehension of those drugs for industrial pharmacists as well as clinical pharmacists.
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- IMMUNOLOGY
- Immunology is the study of how the body responds to foreign substances and how the body can discriminate between self and nonself. This course will focus on the understanding of the molecules, cells, and organs of the human body that participate in immune responses. This will help students understand the immune system in states of both health and disease, malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders.
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- INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE
- This subject is opend for the new students in the College of Pharmacy and will introduce the fundamental theories required for drug development and clinical application
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- MEDICINAL RESOURCES AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
- Subjects on the species, distribution, medicinal use, chemical constituents, and biological activity of the pharmaceutical resources used for the treatment of disease and advances in the basic knowledge on the clinical application of oriental medicine through study on the etiology and therapy of a disease based on the fundamental principles of oriental medicine will be discussed. Furthermore, increase in our ability to develop a new natural(herbal) medicine through a rational link to modern medicine.
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- NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY
- Covers the origin, structure determination, distribution,
isolation and medicinal use of the natural products which are used directly for
the treatment of disease and/or used as a lead compounds for the new drug synthesis.
Besides, the strategy of natural products screening for the development of new drug will
be discussed.
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- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY I
- This course will focus on the understanding of pathogenesis at the cellular level, which will promote the ability of new drug development based on the targeting of disease-related signaling molecules and their pathway. This will enhance and provide student with power of understanding the underlying mechanism of various disease and the way to approach to the research on drug development.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY I
- Living organism, and even in the cells of which they are composed, are enormously complex and diverse. Nevertheless, certain unifying features are common to all things that live. All make use of the same types of biomolecules, and all use energy. This subject deals with component of cells, especially protein, enzymes, cell membrane
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- PHARMACEUTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY I
- Living organism, and even in the cells of which they are composed, are enormously complex and diverse. Nevertheless, certain unifying features are common to all things that live. All make use of the same types of biomolecules, and all use energy. This subject deals with component of cells, especially protein, enzymes, cell membrane
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- PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS
- Throughout the lecture focussed on the microbial morphology, physiology, biochemistry and genetics, the basic concepts for the essence of life wi11 be introduced, and further the basic knowledge for taxonomic characteristics of microbial groups will be taught which is required for understanding the main principles in the treatment and prevention of pathogenic microorganisms.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACY Ⅰ
- This course introduces the student to modern pharmaceutical dosage forms and other novel approaches to the delivery of drugs in the human body. In each case, the basic principles underlying the type of dosage form will be reviewed. Relevant aspects of the formulation, manufacturing, stability and dispensing of these dosage forms will be presented with reference to appropriate commercial products wherever possible. Th study and application of the physicochemical principles that are necessary for the design, development and preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms will also be covered.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACY Ⅰ
- This course introduces the student to modern pharmaceutical dosage forms and other novel approaches to the delivery of drugs in the human body. In each case, the basic principles underlying the type of dosage form will be reviewed. Relevant aspects of the formulation, manufacturing, stability and dispensing of these dosage forms will be presented with reference to appropriate commercial products wherever possible. Th study and application of the physicochemical principles that are necessary for the design, development and preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms will also be covered.
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- PHARMACOLOGY I
- This course is aimed to introduce students to the basic principles of pharmacology, including the definition of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, and the knowledge in drug-receptor binding with respect to electrophysiological, biochemical, and physiological changes. The major focus of this course is on the introduction of drugs acting on the autonomic nervous system, in particular their mechanism of action, metabolism, adverse effects, and clinical applications.
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- PHYSICAL PHARMACY Ⅰ
- Physical chemical properties of drugs; theory and practice applicable to design and evaluation of drug dosage forms; electrolytes, ionic equilibria, solubility and solution, diffusion theory, drug release and dissolution.
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- SYNTHETIC PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY Ⅰ
- This course aims to understand chemistry of heterocycles which occupies an important position in synthetic drug discovery and development. Classification of heterocycles and nomenclature and characteristic feature of each class of heterocycles. Preparative method, reactions, and reaction mechanism of each class of heterocycles
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- IMMUNOTHERAPY
- The manufacturing, purification and formulation processes as well as adminstration strategy of biopharmaceutical drugs for protein therapy, cell therapy, or gene therapy, which is manufactured based on gene recombination or cell fusion technology, will be taught for the basic comprehension of those drugs for industrial pharmacists as well as clinical pharmacists.
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- INORGANIC AND RADIO-LABELED MEDICINES
- Inorganic pharmaceutics historically contributed to human as essential medicines, and inorganic compounds play critical role in maintenance of physiological function and keeping homeostasis in human body. Therefore, Inorganic Pharmaceutics covers shape, properties, characteristics, structures, pharmacological activities, and clinical applications of inorganic medicines. In addition, basic concept of radioactivity, and radioactive isotopes as well as properties, characteristics, measurement technologies, and clinical applications of the radioactive pharmaceutics will be discussed.
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- NATURAL MEDICINE
- Natural Product Chemistry is a subject to study naturally occurring secondary metabolites of living organisms on earth. Natural Product has been widely used as the sources of pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, industrial materials, alternative energy, functional foods, and traditional medicines. In particular, Natural Product is important source of structurally intriguing and biologically active compounds for drug discovery. This class will cover modern research techniques in natural product chemistry as well as biosynthetic mechanisms and pathways by structure class.
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- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY II
- This course will focus on the structural and functional changes related to various diseases, and thus, clinical symptoms. Understanding of pathogenesis of various disease will lead students to apply the knowledge for the drug development.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACY Ⅱ
- This course is concerned with fundamental properties of pharmaceutical systems. In this course, the student is introduced to interfacial phenomena, rheology, micromeritics and so forth, with particular emphasis on those relevant pharmaceutical systems. This is followed by a consideration of the solid state, which is important because of the large number of solid dosage forms. The basic flow properties of a variety of systems are also discussed together with an introduction to kinetics, particularly as related to the stability of material in the liquid and solid state.
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- APPLIED IMMUNOLOGY
- Applied Immunology is the study of how immune system can work against several diseases and immune disorders. This course will focus on the trend of recent technology of immunotherapy and biology. This will help students understand disease process by immune system and learn the high technology of immunotherapy and cell therapy.
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- IMMUNO THERAPY
- The manufacturing, purification and formulation processes as well as adminstration strategy of biopharmaceutical drugs for protein therapy, cell therapy, or gene therapy, which is manufactured based on gene recombination or cell fusion technology, will be taught for the basic comprehension of those drugs for industrial pharmacists as well as clinical pharmacists.
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- INSTRUMENTAL PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS I
- Principles of both chromatographies such as TLC, HPLC and GC and their applications to drug analyses will be discussed.
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- MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY Ⅰ
- Medicinal Chemistry I covers definition of medicinal chemistry, classification of drugs, relationships of physical properties between pharmaceutical activities, interaction between drugs and receptors, receptor site theory, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors, metabolism, prodrugs, and understanding of mechanism of action of drugs. The basic concept is studied for the mechanism of drug action, drug metabolism, structure activity relationship of drugs, and drug development.
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- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
- DNA is converted to RNA by transcription and the RNA can be used as a template for protein synthesis (translation). The procedure is called ‘ the central dogma of molecular biology’. The class “Molecular biology” aims to study ‘the central dogma of molecular biology’ to understand a basic principle of life maintenance. at a molecular level
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- ORIENTAL MEDICINE
- Advances in the basic knowledge on the clinical application of oriental medicine through study on the etiology and therapy of a disease based on the fundamental principles of oriental medicine. Furthermore, increase in our ability to develop a new natural(herbal) medicine through a rational link to modern medicine.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS
- This course focuses on qualitative and quantitative analyses of pharmaceuticals based on principles of statistics for experimental data, chemical equilibrium, acid-base, precipitation, complex formation, and oxidation-reduction.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY II
- Living organism, and even in the cells of which they are composed, are enormously complex and diverse. Nevertheless, certain unifying features are common to all things that live. All make use of the same types of biomolecules, and all use energy. This subject deals with component of cells, especially nucleic acid, and metabolism of high molecules.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY II
- Living organism, and even in the cells of which they are composed, are enormously complex and diverse. Nevertheless, certain unifying features are common to all things that live. All make use of the same types of biomolecules, and all use energy. This subject deals with component of cells, especially nucleic acid, and metabolism of high molecules.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL MICROBIOLOGY
- The microscopic and cultural characteristics of human pathogenic microorganisms, important clinical implications, immunological diagnotic method, immunization procedure and treatment measures including drug of choice for infectious diseases will be learned. Further the treatment and preventive measures of diseases through control of epidemics will be introduced including disinfectants as well as vaccination schemes.
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- PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACY Ⅱ
- This course is concerned with fundamental properties of pharmaceutical systems. In this course, the student is introduced to interfacial phenomena, rheology, micromeritics and so forth, with particular emphasis on those relevant pharmaceutical systems. This is followed by a consideration of the solid state, which is important because of the large number of solid dosage forms. The basic flow properties of a variety of systems are also discussed together with an introduction to kinetics, particularly as related to the stability of material in the liquid and solid state.
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- PHARMACOLOGY II
- This course is aimed to discuss the drugs which are used for the treatment of various diseases of human body. Features of the drugs will be briefly discussed. Emphasis will be placed on their mechanism of actions, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, contra indications and clinical uses of the drugs.
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- PHARMACY LABORATORY Ⅰ
- This course is designed to unite the theory and practice of the biochemistry, microbiology, organic pharmaceutical chemistry, and analytical chemistry. Emphasis is placed on the development of principles of various techniques and participation in laboratory experiments in these fields.
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- PHYSICAL PHARMACY Ⅱ
- Physical chemical properties of drugs; theory and practice applicable to design and evaluation of drug dosage forms; chemical kinetics and stability, interfacial phenomena, colloidal dispersion, coarse dispersion, micrometrics, rheology, oral solid dosage forms.
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- SYNTHETIC PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY Ⅱ
- Synthetic Pharmaceutical Chemistry I covers the reaction mechanisms and experimental skills for basic organic reactions and helps to cultivate application ability towards the synthesis of various organic compounds, drugs as well as new compounds designed for specific purposes.
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