This is where you'll begin to examine the basic principles involved with drug delivery, including the absorption and elimination of drugs. You'll look at the scientific principles involved with the design of medication and learn how to use bioequivalence studies to determine product selection. And you'll learn how to give patients advice on using and storing dosage forms.
Diagnostic imaging refers to the tools physicians use when looking inside the body to make a diagnosis. This is an introductory course where you'll learn how the practice of pharmacy is relevant to diagnostic imaging. You'll learn about the various instruments used in diagnostic imaging as well as how specific diagnostic drugs work with these imaging modalities.
Drug development tells how drugs go from chemical compounds to medications from a government regulatory standpoint. There's also a review of international regulatory issues and drug patents. This course will take you from preclinical research to human clinical trials. You'll also go over the chemistry manufacturing and control process as it's related to drug development.