Objectives of general skills

• 1. Pharmaceutical expertise: Use a foundation of concepts and knowledge in health sciences and pharmaceutical sciences.
• Understand and integrate the fundamental sciences (chemistry, physics, biology, botany) involved in the specific fields of pharmaceutical sciences
• Understand how the human body works by using knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, immunology, microbiology and pathology under the dual approach of normal and pathological conditions in order to understand the action of medications on the body.
• Understand the basic concepts of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics
• Understand compounds for pharmaceutical application regarding their chemical structures, their structure-activity relationships, their physicochemical properties, their origins (synthetic, semi-synthetic, natural), their analytical control methods and their areas of use from a therapeutic point of view.
• 2. Scientific method: Solve pharmaceutical problems using their knowledge and critical mind.
• Understand and apply the basic principles of reasoning (obtaining data, analysis, synthesis, comparison, the rule of three, syllogism, analogy, Boolean logic, etc.)
• Use a hypothesis in inductive, deductive or abductive reasoning
• Develop a critical, practical and analytical mind
• 3. Communication: Communicate in an appropriate, efficient, rigorous and respectful way in a professional perspective.
• Understand the basic rules of French (grammar, punctuation, connectors, etc.)
• Adapt lexical and syntactic choices in communication register (everyday language, medical language or scientific terminology)
• Summarise, explain, and argue
• Share knowledge and information
• 4. Sense of responsibility: Act ethically and professionally.
• Be aware of the concept of "pharmaceutical care"
• 5. Quality: Assess themself, expand their knowledge and adapt their attitude.
• Manage time
• Prioritise
• Locate scientific information efficiently

UE's Learning outcomes

The student must be able to learn several aspects of the drugs used in Belgium, among which their pharmacological and physico-chemical properties, their pratical uses in medicine, how to analyse them and how to create new drugs.

UE Content

* Theory: analysis of chemical groups; drug design at the molecular level (molecular pharmacochemistry); systematic study of several pharmaceutical classes (anti-infectious drugs, antitumoral and immunomodulatory drugs; peripheral nervous system drugs). * Laboratory work: analysis of several samples of drugs (with our without impurities) following a European Pharmacopoeia monograph (identity, purity and assay).

Prior experience

Prerequisites : Chimie organique. Pharmacologie générale.   Courses to be followed along with the present UE : Chimie analytique qualitative et quantitative Analyse instrumentale pharmaceutique Etude des médicaments inorganiques Pharmacognosie: Phytochimie et étude des médicaments d'origine végétale Pharmacologie générale

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination
• Written examination
• Quoted exercices

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• N/A

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination
• Written examination

Resit Assessment for IT - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

• N/A