College College of Pharmacy Program Doctor of Pharmacy Course Title Physical Pharmacy Principles and liquid dosage forms Course Code PPI 222 Department Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Industries Course General Description This course focuses on the design of liquid dosage forms as solutions, suspensions, emulsions and colloids and their characteristics including flow properties, surface properties, adsorption effects on drug bioavailability, storage conditions and stability. It also discusses effects of excipients and additives such as surfactants, preservatives and buffers on their preparation and drug delivery properties. Furthermore, it outlines basic concepts and pharmaceutical applications of solubility, diffusion, partition coefficient, interfacial phenomena, rheological systems, reaction kinetics and different types of complexes.