LEARNING GOOD PHARMACEUTICAL PRACTICES AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF PHARMACY SPECIALISTS

Abstract

The article presents the results of the analysis of alternative methods of studying the Good Pharmaceutical Practice complex, introduced at the Lviv Polytechnic National University. The optimal structure of the curriculum for student’s education by the specialty 226 “Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy” was determined to improve the system of training of specialists, who need understand the current pharmaceutical legislation of Ukraine and prospects for its development. Structural-and-logical schemas based on the Guidelines of Good Pharmaceutical Practices that greatly facilitate students’ perception and assimilation of all the needed information have been elaborated. The development of such schemes by students with teacher assistance allows to improve the perception of the material and strengthen skills for independently analyzing. While performing the task, students to learn and understand certain aspects, such as the fact that the quality of the medicines is “incorporated” into the drug at the stage of pharmaceutical development, and then confirmed during preclinical and clinical research. Further, the medicine receives a “permit to life”, when passing state registration. After that, the specified quality is reproduced for each series at the stage of full-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing, it is maintained unchanged at the stages of storage and distribution and, finally, it is delivered to patients in pharmacies. The study of the possibility of mastering the discipline “Good Practices in Pharmaceutics” by students of specialty 226 “Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy” during the practice at the existing pharmaceutical enterprises can be considered perspective