Clinical Program Courses - PharmD

PG 101 - Medicinal Plants (2+1)
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge necessary to identify and prepare a crude drug from the farm to the firm. Students should acquire knowledge concerning dusting powders, plant cytology, physiology and medicinal leafy plants. In this course, the student will study: importance of natural products, preparation of natural products-derived drugs including collection, storage, preservation and adulteration. The course will introduce the students to the different classes of secondary metabolites. In addition, the course will discuss and address the variability in occurrence of pharmacologically active substances in certain official medicinal leafy plants according to their WHO monographs.

PG 202 - Pharmacognosy I (2+1)
Based on the Egyptian flora and other florae of wild and cultivated medicinal plants that are used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries in the global & Egyptian market. The course introduces students to some botanical drugs of leaves, flower, seeds, bark and wood origin. During the lectures and practical sessions, students learn to identify examples of these drugs in their entire and powdered forms. Student will learn about the major constituents, folk uses, clinically proven uses, benefits, precautions of those medicinal plants.possible herbal-drug interactions of selected examples of these drugs.

PG 303 - Pharmacognosy II (2+1)
Based on the Egyptian flora and other florae of wild and cultivated medicinal plants that are used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries in the global & Egyptian market. The course introduces students to some botanical drugs of, fruits, subterreans, herbs, unorganized drugs of marine and animal origin. During the lectures and practical sessions, students learn to identify examples of these drugs in their entire and powdered forms. Student will learn about the major constituents, folk uses, clinically proven uses, benefits, precautions of those medicinal plants.possible herbal-drug interactions of selected examples of these drugs.

PG 504 - Phytochemistry I (2+1)
Based on complementary medicine and Egyptian medicinal plants that can be used as natural extracts, bioactive raw materials and phytochemical standards to serve the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food industries in Egypt. The course aims to gain the students the knowledge and experience those enable them to understand, describe and deal with the chemistry and Pharmaceutical uses of volatile oils, resins and resin combinations, carbohydrates, glycosides, and bitters of plant or animals as well as techniques for their, isolation, identification and determination from their respective sources.Clinical applications will be correlated with various clinical analyses.

PG 605 - Phytochemistry II ( 2+1 )
The course aims to enable students to demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts of chemistry and bioactivities of alkaloids, tannins and antioxidants as well as chromatographic techniques for their isolation and identification. The course emphasizes on drugs with valuable use in the Egyptian and worldwide markets, such as anti-cancer agents, drugs affecting CNS, drugs ameliorating liver diseases and antiinflammatory agents. Finally, the course focuses on the structure activity relationships (SAR) of these natural products derived compounds and their pharmacophoric features. Clinical applications will be correlated with various clinical analyses.

PG 906 - Phytotherapy ( 2+1 )
The course aims to enable students to attain the systematic approach for herbal prescribing through a comparative study of both traditional and scientifically based uses of herbal drugs in the treatment of various clinical disorders. The course provides clinical pharmacy students with review of the available information on how botanicals may normalize an altered function. Approval by World Health Organization (WHO), German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Commission E) is the base for selection of the studied herbs. The herbal drugs treated in combined way relative to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology. Special concern is given to the possible mode of action of the herbal drugs based on experimental and clinical pharmacological studies. Also the student should understand the basis of complementary and alternative medicine with emphasis on herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, homeopathies, aromatherapy & their effect on maintaining optimum health and prevention of chronic diseases.

PG E07 - Complementary Therapies (1+1)
The study of herbal preparations, nutritional supplements, and homeopathies. The study of herbal preparations that are widely used by the general public as self-selected OTC (over-the-counter) products/NPDs (nonprescription drugs). Food items for therapeutic, disease prevention, or health promotion purposes. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the pharmacist to help clients make an informed choice and counsel them on the selection of useful and safe products.

PG E08 - Production and Manufacture of Medicinal Plants (1+1)
The study of commercial production of medicinal plants, cultivation, collection, drying, preservation, extraction, standardization, quality control, and final packaging of entire or powdered forms or extracts with the mphasis on the production of standardized herbals and phytopharmaceuticals.

PG E09 - Chromatography and Separation Techniques (1+1)
Introduction and modes of separation for adsorption, partition, gel filtration and permeation, ion exchange and non-ion exchange, affinity chromatography and their applications. High-pressure liquid chromatography, gas liquid chromatography and their applications.

PG E10 - Processing of Medicinal Plants (1+1)
This course will deal with all aspects relating to collection, drying and extraction of medicinal plants and their biologically active compounds depending on specific equipments to minimize the process loss or chemical degradation. Different extracts and herbal formulations and their quality standards will be studies.

PG E11 - Aromatherapy and Herbal Cosmetics (1+1)
The study of natural products used in cosmetics as oils, perfumes, natural dyes, composition and its sources. Plant extracts used in cosmetic preparation. Identification and evaluation of natural products in different cosmetic preparation and their stability study and safety. The course deals also with the study of essential oils used in aromatherapy and their preparation.

PG E12- Biotechnology of Medicinal Plants (1+1)
This course deals with the modern techniques for the production of medicinal plants using different tissue culture techniques and endophytes.