Maths Skills for Pharmacy Unlocking pharmaceutical calculations

by Langley, Chris; Perrie, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9780199680719
• ISBN10: 019968071X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ensuring competency in maths skills is a fundamental part of pharmacy education as accurate pharmaceutical calculations are crucial to the safe and effective use of drugs. This text combines both the scientific calculations underpinning dosage forms with calculations relating to pharmacy practice in a single resource.

An innovative student-centred approach is taken throughout the text, with numerous worked examples and self-test questions to stimulate self-directed learning. Frequent case studies highlight the importance of maths to pharmacy, and help students to make that crucial connection between theory and practice, while key take-home messages for each section are summarised in concise learning-point boxes.

Written by leading academics with a wealth of experience in pharmacy education Maths Skills for Pharmacy is the ideal textbook for the subject.


Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Maths Skills for Pharmacy features:

For registered adopters of the book:
- Figures from the book, available to download.

For students:
- Multiple choice questions and short answer questions
- Webcasts, walking students through various calculations

Author Biography

Chris Langley, Professor of Pharmacy Law and Practice, Aston Pharmacy School,Yvonne Perrie, Professor in Pharmaceutics/Drug Delivery, Aston Pharmacy School

Chris Langley is a Professor of Pharmacy Law and Practice at Aston University, where he is also Deputy Head of the Pharmacy School and Associate Dean for Taught Programmes. He is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Education Expert Advisory Panel, and has previously written several undergraduate pharmacy textbooks.

Yvonne Perrie is Professor in Drug Delivery and Head of the Pharmacy School at Aston University. Her research activities contribute to the advancement and strategic development of drug carrier systems to facilitate the effective delivery and application of drugs and vaccines. Yvonne is Editor in Chief of both the Journal of Liposome Research and Pharmaceutics, and acts as Associate Editor of The Journal of Drug Targeting and The Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. She is also the author of the undergraduate textbook Drug Delivery and Targeting.