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Chapter I
Student Activities In Pharmacy Orientation
It is important for all pharmacy students to know the classification of medications, interpretation
of prescriptions and medication orders, general dispensing procedure and factors affecting drug
dosage, different dosage forms and various routes of administration.
Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Cherif Khater, and the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Ahmed R. El-
Sheakh, with the supervision of Dr. Ghada El-Emam, Dr. Walaa Ebrahim, and the mentorship
of the pharmaceutics teaching assistance staff, first-level students were equipped to perform an
activity aimed at orienting them to the different aspects of pharmacy profession and development
of pharmacy and to the expressions commonly used in pharmacy practice added to recognizing
different pharmaceutical dosage forms and routes of drug administration.
Students were encouraged to select a drug with the aid of its monograph, they were advised to
design a briefed card and present the data inside at the faculty’s Educational Pharmacy.
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