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Pharmaceutical Calculations

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This is by far the finest, most comprehensive text book on pharmaceutical calculations available. This is the text by which all others are judged. It is great for the student who is unfamiliar with this topic as well as for the pharmacist who could use a refresher course. It makes a great reference text for the pharmacy.

I have worked in a retail pharmacy and a hospital pharmacy. I believe this book covers the basics behind the calculations performed for both environments. Students should receive more training on calculations as they progress through pharmacy school, of course, but this book is a great way to get started. If you are the student who plans to go into research and production, yes, you may need additional training.

There is a difference between 11th and 12th edition. The 12th edition is missing some of the lessons that were included in the 11th edition. This doesn't necessarily mean you need to go out and buy the 11th edition instead of the 12th edition. Errors in the 11th edition may be fixed in the 12th edition. My particular pharmaceutical calculations course used the 12th edition.

I have already decided that this book will be one of those books I keep on my shelf when I finally graduate and become a pharmacist.

Subject matter is more elementary than Amiji, but there are fewer errors. Buy it if you need it for a course, the problem sets are great practice. Indispensable until a better book comes out.

This was a recommended text for my Intro to Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics course. So far, I do not find it very helpful in giving additional practice problems. If this is a recommended text for you, I'd keep looking... though I don't have any suggestions for alternatives.

The book arrived way ahead of schedule and in the condition promised. It has been very helpful with my classes in pharmacy school.

A tiny book with useful information that will be useful for clinical pharmacy.

It's not written in stone for some part like calculations/formulas.

It's also old, going through more than a dozen editions.

The steps in which this book explains calculations seem to be long-winded, but the large number of practice problems certainly come in handy. Like I said in the title, this book was a requirement, not a necessity... I haven't looked at it since my P1 year.

Don't bother with this just get an old middle school math book that reviews fractions

I purchased this book for pharmacy school and I have not used it yet, but I have skimmed through it and I am eager to begin learning. This book is needed for a mandatory course for the 4yr PharmD program. Furthermore, I found it interesting that the pharmacists' I work for now, whom graduated over 20 years ago, used the exact same book, but of course an earlier edition. Therefore, it must serve it purpose since it has been used for many years in many pharmacy graduate programs.

not very helpful in explaining how to do the problems..the book's examples are so much easier than the practice problems at the end of the chapters..quite a few typos as well..recommended if you have good lecture notes and want to be challenged by the problems..the subject itself however is not that difficult