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tips and tricks associated with these. All right. So objectives, uh, no different dosage forms of

administrative medications, no different routes of administration, uh, distinguish between the

benefits and pitfalls of different dosage forms

and routes of administration so for this section I'm going to focus mostly on

dosage forms but obviously those kind of blend and blur a little bit together

too so all right so the list of dosage forms there.

We're going to go through them one by one.

All right, so tablet, capsule, so differentiating between these, tablet is a hard compressed medication.

You can have what are called coated tablets. So this can sometimes help with masking taste and those type of things. Medicines can be pretty bitter, particularly if they start to dissolve

on the tongue a little bit before completely swallowed.

So that's a potential advantage of those coated tablets.

We can have chewable formulations.

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