Advanced Pharmaceutical Compounding (Oct 07 - 08, 2021)

Advanced Pharmaceutical Compounding is organized by the American College of Apothecaries (ACA) and will be held from Oct 07 - 08, 2021 at American College of Apothecaries, Bartlett, Tennessee, United States of America.

Target Audience:
This practice-based course is designed for pharmacists, technicians, and marketers who want to learn more advanced compounding skills and techniques for the community patient.

Description:
This course is a combination of didactic lectures for content and laboratory activities to enhance an already established skill of compounding that will cover topics and create products unique to community extemporaneous compounding pharmacy practice.

The goal of this course is to expand on the participants’ current knowledge of community extemporaneous compounding pharmacy and to discover and create innovative ways to treat patients in the community using advanced extemporaneous compounding pharmacy skills and techniques.

Topics covered will include:
• flavoring chemistry
• pediatric dosage forms and formulations
• Rapid Disintegrating Tablets and tablet triturates
• palliative care and hospice compounding opportunities
• dosage forms for dentistry
• advanced technology available for the community compounder

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participating pharmacist or technician will be able to:
• Recall basic pharmaceutical calculations from required compounding courses to be used in preparation of advanced pharmaceutical compounds
• Explain legal obligations and requirements of 503A and 503B compounding facilities
• Use advanced pharmaceutical compounding techniques to extemporaneously compound prescriptions, utilizing supplied materials
• Discuss theory of and experiment with flavoring chemistry related to non-sterile oral products
• Review pediatric dosage forms and formulations related to community compounded products
• Formulate and compound Rapid Disintegrating Tablets and tablet triturates
• Discover palliative care and hospice compounding opportunities to grow your business
• Define non-sterile compounded dosage forms for dentistry patients
• Practice manipulation of advanced technology available for the community compounder
• Demonstrate appropriate documentation of compounding procedures and practices performed according to best practice guidelines, utilizing supplied materials
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with unique routes of administration and unique dosage forms
• Assess extemporaneously compounded products for quality control according to best practice guidelines