VASANTIDEVI PATIL
INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY

HTML marquee Tag Vasantidevi Patil Institute of Pharmacy, Kodoli, has been accredited with an A Grade, achieving an impressive CGPA of 3.07 by NAAC.

HTML marquee Tag Vasantidevi Patil Institute of Pharmacy, Kodoli was established with the aim to impart quality pharmacy education and training to cater the needs of the pharmacy profession and society at large. The journey started in 2003 by introducing the first Pharmacy institute in the Kodoli under aegis of Shri Yashwant Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Kodoli. The institute is approved by AICTE New Delhi, PCI New Delhi, and DTE Mumbai, recognized by Government of Maharashtra & affiliated to a MSBTE, Mumbai and Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The Institute is situated at the foot hills of Panhala, in the area of Kodoli, about 10 kilometres away from National Highway- 4 and 35 km away from major city, Kolhapur. The institute occupies the area of approximately 4 acres having its own 5470 sq.mts. building with excellent infrastructure which in-houses facilities such as sophisticated laboratories, resourceful library with latest books, national& international journals and well-equipped classrooms with modern teaching aid. Vasantidevi Patil Institute of Pharmacy is a progressive edifying organization, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence. This institute has been dedicated to decree solutions to big challenges and to prepare the student for leadership in a multifaceted world.

Department of Pharmaceutics

Vision

The Department of Pharmaceutics is committed to create highly trained, versatile, ethical professionals needed for providing quality medicines for health care services with technological innovations in drug product development.

Mission

To get recognized as a top-tier education and research center in pharmaceutics through innovative approaches in teaching, training, and research by disseminating new knowledge by conducting cutting edge research in the formulation sciences.

Objectives

Underastand the basics of different dosage form, pharmaceutical incompatibilities and pharmaceutical calculations.
Understand the professional way of handling the prescription.
Understand various physicochemical properties of drug molecules in the designing the dosage form and manufacturing techniques.
Know the principle of chemical kinetics and to use them for stability testing and determination of expiry date of formulations.
Demonstrate use of physicochemical properties in the formulation development and evaluation of dosage form.
Know various considerations in development of pharmaceutical dosage form.
Understanding the importance of immobilized enzymes in pharma-ceutical industries.
Genetic engineering applications in relation to production of pharma-ceuticals.

Strength of Department

Highly qualified and experienced faculty
Well equipped laboratory and pilot plant facilities for formulation of conventional as well as novel formulations
Collaborations with various industries for research in the area of formulation development
Received grants from various funding agency and through consultancy to industry
Instrumental in continuous up gradation of knowledge by providing regular training to students and faculty on advanced instruments and statistical tools
Instrumental in continuous up gradation of knowledge by providing regular training to students and faculty on advanced instruments and statistical tools
Use of innovative teaching methods and ICT tools in teaching

Course Outcomes

Theory: – On successful completion of theory topics student shall be able to:

Know the knowledge on the preparatory pharmacy with arts and science of preparing the different conventional dosage form.
To study the various physical and physicochemical properties, and principles involved in dosage form/ formulations.
To understand the preformulation studies.
Biotechnologies are leading to new biological revolutions in diagnosis, prevention and cure of disease new and cheaper pharmaceutical drug.
Scientific application of biotechnology in the field of genetic engineering, medicine and fermentation technology make the subject interesting.

Practical: – On successful completion of practical’s student shall be able to:

Students shall undergo study visit to the laboratory for types of chemicals, equipment’s, instruments before performing experiments.
Understand the purpose of experiments and its practical implications.
Understand the practices and the operation of machines.
Students shall develop maintenance skill as expected by the industries.
Students get a better insight in to various areas of formulation research and development, stability studies of pharmaceutical dosage form.