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manufacture medicines

skills

handling and moving

assembling and fabricating products

assembling and fabricating products

manufacture medicines

Description

Description

Formulate and compound medicines performing pharmaceutical calculations, selecting the appropriate route of administration and dosage form for the medicine, the appropriate ingredients and excipients of the required quality standard, and preparing pharmaceutical products.

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compound medicines

fabricate medicines

formulate medicines

manufacture medicine

manufacture medicines

manufacture pharmaceutical products

produce medicines

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

cross-sector skills and competences

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DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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