D.Pharma First Year Syllabus

History of pharmacy and the pharmacopoeias (IP, BP, USP); packaging materials; unit operations — size reduction, size separation, mixing, filtration, drying, extraction and distillation; dosage forms — powders, liquids, semisolids, suppositories and sterile products; prescription handling and dispensing.

Acids, bases and buffers; sources and types of impurities; inorganic pharmaceuticals and their assays; fundamentals of organic chemistry; the chemistry of major drug classes.

Introduction to crude drugs and their classification; cultivation, collection and processing; carbohydrates, glycosides, alkaloids, volatile oils, tannins and resins; herbal formulations and nutraceuticals.

Cell and tissues; the skeletal, muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, endocrine and reproductive systems and their functions.

Concept of health and disease; national health programmes; nutrition and health; epidemiology; communicable and non-communicable diseases; first aid; family planning; introduction to pharmacovigilance.