
Explain compressible solid dosage forms and their classification, and describe tablet manufacturing by compression and coating. Highlight disintegration and dissolution capacities across powders, granules, capsules, and suspensions.
Explore compressible solid dosage forms, including tablets, chewable and effervescent variants, and learn how excipients, compression, coatings, and route-specific design shape their performance.
Explore general manufacturing methods for pharmaceutical compressible solid dosage forms, from weighing and blending to tablet compression, coating, and packaging, with emphasis on tablet compression machines, turrets, and punches.
Explore incompressible solid dosage forms and the polder concept, clarifying powders, granules, and internal versus external preparation. See how unit and multiple dose formats influence dissolution, absorption, and dosing flexibility.
Explore powder and granules as incompressible solid dosage forms, including suspension, effervescent topical powders, and capsule dosages, with emphasis on uniform particle size, adhesion, and appropriate use for open wounds.
Explore suppositories as incompressible solid dosage forms, including rectal, vaginal, nasal, and ear varieties, detailing base selection, active dispersion, molding, forming, and cooling.
Explore general manufacturing methods for liquid dosage forms, including solution syrup and elixir solubilization, and suspension and emulsion processes from weighing ingredients to bottle filling and packaging.
Explore semisolid dosage forms, including creams, ointments, gels, lotions, and pastes, and learn how skin structure guides topical and systemic administration routes such as eye, nasally, vaginally, and rectally.
Explore special parenteral dosage forms, including powder for injection, concentrated solutions, injectable suspensions, and injectable emulsions, focusing on stability, visual appearance, and safe intravenous use.
Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms & Basics of Pharma Industry course provides you basic understanding of pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical dosage forms and manufacturing process of these dosage forms.
After attended this course, you can easily define pharmaceutical dosage forms such as compressible solid dosage forms, uncompressible solid dosage forms, liquid dosage forms, semisolid dosage forms and sterile (parenteral) dosage forms. Besides this, you understand manufacturing process of this dosage forms by learning main steps of manufacturing technologies.
In this course, the pharmaceutical dosage forms, technical information and manufacturing process of them have been discussed.
COURSE SCOPE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS
3 WHY DO WE NEED DIFFERENT PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS?
4 COMPRESSIBLE SOLID DOSAGE FORM
4_1 Compressible Solid Dosage Form General Informations
4_2 Compressible Solid Dosage Form (Tablets)
4_2_1 Tablet
4_2_2 Chewable Tablet
4_2_3 Effervescent Tablet
4_3 Compressible Solid Dosage Form (Coated Tablets)
4_3_1 Sugar Coated Tablet
4_3_2 Film Coated Tablet
4_3_3 Enteric Coated Tablet
4_4 General Manufacturing Method for Compressible Solid Dosage Form
5 UNCOMPRESSIBLE SOLID DOSAGE FORM
5_1 Uncompressible Solid Dosage Form General Informations
5_2 Uncompressible Solid Dosage Form (Powder & Granules)
5_2_1 Granules for Suspension / Effervescent
5_2_2 Topical Powder
5_2_3 Capsule
5_3 Uncompressible Solid Dosage Form (Inhalers)
5_3_1 Inhaler (Respiratory Dosage Forms)
5_4 Uncompressible Solid Dosage Form (Suppositories)
5_4_1 Suppositories
5_5 General Manufacturing Method for Uncompressible Solid Dosage Form
6 LIQUID DOSAGE FORM
6_1 Liquid Dosage Form General Information
6_2 Liquid Dosage Form (Solution & Syrup & Elixir)
6_2_1 Solutions
6_2_2 Oral Solution
6_2_3 Syrup
6_2_4 Elixir
6_3 Liquid Dosage Form (Suspension & Emulsion)
6_3_1 Suspension
6_3_2 Emulsion
6_4 General Manufacturing Method for Liquid Dosage Form
7 SEMISOLID DOSAGE FORM
7_1 Semisolid Dosage Form General Informations
7_2 Semisolid Dosage Form (Cream & Oinment & Gel)
7_2_1 Cream
7_2_2 Oinment
7_2_3 Gel
7_3 General Manufacturing Method for Semisolid Dosage Form
8 STERILE (PARENTERAL) DOSAGE FORM
8_1 Sterile (Parenteral) Dosage Form General Informations
8_2 Sterile Dosage Forms (Small Volume Parenterals)
8_2_1 Ampoule
8_2_2 Bottles and Vials
8_3 Sterile Dosage Forms (Large Volume Parenterals)
8_4 Sterile Dosage Forms (Special Parenteral Dosage Forms)
8_4_1 Powder for Injection
8_4_2 Concentrated Solutions for Injections
8_4_3 Injectable Suspension
8_4_4 Injectable Emulsion
8_5 General Manufacturing Method for Sterile Dosage Form
9 CONCLUSIONS