Vinita Kale; Tirupati Rasala; Shobha Yadav; Govind Lohiya
Pharmacy students in the last semester have received repeated and often in-depth exposure to acid-base chemistry. Yet, despite having covered this essential content in inorganic, organic, biochemistry, and pharmaceutics courses, students often demonstrate an inability to work competently and confidently with acid-base chemistry principles. The ability to predict the behavior of organic acids and bases in solution is paramount to the comprehensive understanding of drug action that all pharmacists are expected to have. It is therefore essential that pharmacy educators identify teaching and learning strategies that foster a true and lasting comprehension of this critical and omnipresent aspect of drug behavior in vivo and in vitro and the main theoretical physico-chemical and technical skills learnt. Moreover, the students should be able to connect these concepts to their professional daily role in the industry, in bio-analytical, formulation, analytical, clinical practice and in the research and development of new drugs and formulations.
