Spring 2027

Pharmaceutical Calculations, Dispensing and Compounding

Laboratory course covering pharmaceutical calculations, dispensing, and compounding of dosage forms, including sterile products.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Bonnie FingerhutMelgardt De Villiers

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.49 GPA, 69.9% A/AB (n=93 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.59 GPA, 77.0% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 80.3% A/AB (n=132 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Read and accurately interpret prescription and medication orders

  • Correctly identify, interpret and utilize for calculation, the information presented in a written problem, a prescription or medication order, and directions taken from the labeling of a container

  • Accurately calculate the quantities needed to compound a dosage form, the dosage of ingredients, and the amount of any drug source required to fulfill the dosing needs of the patient

  • Know the dimensions or units of measurements for drugs and chemicals, expressions of quantity and concentration for drug products and preparations, and appropriate methods of expressing doses and dosing regimens for patients

  • Perform the accepted techniques used for extemporaneous compounding of non-sterile drug products

  • Identify the physical and chemical properties of drugs, pharmaceutical necessities, excipients, and dosage forms, and practice with handling and manipulating them

  • Use a variety of pharmacy references for determining appropriate doses and dosage regimens, and drug delivery systems

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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PHM SCI 420

PHMSCI 541 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.49 GPA, 69.9% A/AB (n=93 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.59 GPA, 77.0% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 80.3% A/AB (n=132 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MELGARDT DE VILLIERS is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1400
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 350
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 350
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 350
LAB 304Classroom Instruction0 / 350

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.49 GPA, 69.9% A/AB (n=93 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.59 GPA, 77.0% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 80.3% A/AB (n=132 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Compounding and dispensing of pharmaceutical dosage forms
  • Prescription interpretation and pharmaceutical calculations
  • Product packaging and labeling

Skills

  • Interpret prescription and medication orders
  • Perform pharmaceutical calculations for compounding and dosing
  • Compound non-sterile drug products using extemporaneous techniques
  • Manipulate drugs and package/label dosage forms

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
PHMSCI 541 · Spring 2027

Pharmaceutical Calculations, Dispensing and Compounding

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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