Issue 1/2024
Cholakidou, A.
Medical College, Medical University – Pleven
The dosage forms prepared in pharmacies under specific prescription for a specific patient are called magisterial. They are the essence of the pharmaceutical profession. Such forms have been prepared since antiquity and are the basis of industrially prepared pharmaceutical forms and uniform formulations.
Pharmacists in pharmacies registered to prepare pharmacopoeial and magisterial prescriptions may prepare these on pharmacopoeial prescriptions from a physician (where the formula is published in the Pharmacopoeia); magisterial prescriptions in which the physician prescribes the ingredients and their quantity and the pharmacist fills it technologically; or on a prescription with an established formulation, usually not in the Pharmacopoeia but has been prepared for decades.
Dosage forms that are currently not produced industrially, proven formulations, those with off-label prescription, pediatric forms, especially for life-sustaining therapy in infants and children – are also prepared.
Key words: magisterial dosage forms, study, Pleven, prescriptions, individualized therapy
Address for correspondence:
Mag.-pharm. Albena Cholakidou,
assistant professor
Medical College, Department of “Social and
Pharmaceutical Activities”, Medical University – Pleven
1, „Kliment Ohridski”, Blvd.
5800, Pleven
e-mail: albena_hr@abv.bg