PHARMACEUTICS-III Syllabus

BPH-107: PHARMACEUTICS-III

Drug Store management & hospital pharmacy

THEORY

Max. Marks: 80                                                                             Total Hours: 50 (2hrs/week)

Note: Examiner to set eight questions and the candidates are required to attempt any five.
Drug Store management

1. Introduction: Trade, Industry and Commerce, Functions and subdivision of Commerce, Introduction of Elements of Economics and Management. Forms of Business Organizations, Channels of Distribution. (4)
2. Drug House Management: Selection of Site, Space Lay-out and legal requirements. Importance and objectives of Purchasing, selection of suppliers, credit information, tenders, contracts and price determination and legal requirements thereto. Codification, handling of drug stores and other hospital supplies. (5)
3. Inventory Control: objects and importance, modern techniques like ABC, VED analysis, the lead time, inventory carrying cost, safety stock, minimum and maximum stock levels, economic order quantity, scrap and surplus disposal. (4)
4. Sales Promotion, Market Research, Salesmanship, qualities of a salesman, Advertising and Window Display. (4)
5. Recruitment, training, evaluation and compensation of the pharmacist. (3)

Hospital Pharmacy

1) Hospitals: Definition, Function, Classifications based on various criteria, organization, Management and Health delivery system in India. (4)

2) Hospital Pharmacy: Definition, Functions and objectives of Hospital Pharmaceutical services, Location, Layout, Flow chart of material and men, Personnel and facilities requirements including equipments based on individual and basic needs, Requirements and abilities required for Hospital pharmacists. (4)

3) Drug Distribution system in Hospitals: (4)

1. Out –patient services
2. In-patient services: types of services, detailed discussion of unit Dose system, Floor ward stock system, Satellite pharmacy services, Central sterile services, Bed Side Pharmacy.

4) Manufacturing (Sterile and Non-Sterile): Economical considerations, estimation of demand, Sterile manufacture-large and small volume parenterals, facilities, requirements, layout production planning, man-power requirements, Non-sterile manufacture –Liquid orals, externals-bulk concentrates, testing of raw materials. (10)

5) Procurement of stores, demand estimation. (2)

6) P.T.C (Pharmacy Therapeutic Committee), Hospital Formulary System and their organisation, functioning, composition. (2)

7) Drug Information service and Drug Information Bulletin. (2)

8) Long-term care facilities. (2)

Books Recommended (Latest editions):

1. Principles and methods of Pharmacy management, Harrg A. Smith Loa & Febiger, Philadelphia.
2. Materials Manegemnet by Gopalkrishna, Prentice Hall, India .

3. Hospital Pharmacy, Hassan Lippincott.
4. Remington Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lippincott.

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