Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice
Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice
This industry relevant program will deepen your understanding of contemporary pharmacy practice and provide you with specialised skills to enhance your career opportunities. This program provides intern pharmacists with specialised training and skills in pharmacy practice. The program combines academic excellence with pharmacy practice to provide intern pharmacists with the…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This industry relevant program will deepen your understanding of contemporary pharmacy practice and provide you with specialised skills to enhance your career opportunities.
This program provides intern pharmacists with specialised training and skills in pharmacy practice. The program combines academic excellence with pharmacy practice to provide intern pharmacists with the opportunity to gain a formal postgraduate qualification with a strong practical focus.
The two-year part-time program has been developed to address the competencies required by the Pharmacy Board of Australia standards, as well as focus on learning that’s relevant to contemporary pharmacy practice. It is developed, delivered and supported by a team of community and hospital pharmacists with extensive practice experience.
During your study, you’ll develop and apply knowledge and skills in a wide range of areas relevant to pharmacy practice, including:
- Calculations
- Clinical pharmacy
- Communication of information
- Complementary medicines
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Dispensing, dispensing procedures and risk management
- Drug interactions and adverse drug reactions
- Evidence-based practice
- Health promotion and harm minimisation
- Identifying and managing prescription problems
- Medicines information, patient interviewing and medication review
- Pharmacy legal and professional requirements
- Primary healthcare
- Therapeutics
This program offers a mix of course delivery, consisting of workplace activities, online self-paced background study material and online group discussions. These are supported by interactive face-to-face seminars focusing on hands-on, small-group learning.
REQUIREMENTS
a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy (or equivalent) from Australia or New Zealand. International applicants must have completed Australian Pharmacy Council requirements.
You must have a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 on a 7-point scale in your previous qualification.
All applicants must be eligible for registration as an intern pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia.
English Proficiency
IELTS overall 7; reading 7; writing 7; speaking 7; listening 7. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL IBT – Overall 100, listening 25, reading 25, writing 27, speaking 23.
TOEFL PB – Overall 600, listening 59, reading 59, writing 64/6.
Pearsons – Overall 72, sub bands minimum 72.
CES – Overall 185, All sub bands minimum 185.
BEP and OET are not accepted.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Queensland (UQ) is in the world’s top 50 universities. It is internationally renowned for its academic excellence and is the winner of more national teaching awards than any other Australian university. UQ is a member of the Universities 21 and a founding member of the Group of Eight (Go8) universities and a member of Universities Australia. UQ is a multicultural hub home to nearly 20,200 international students from 142 countries. Based in Brisbane, UQ has three campuses with advanced facilities and centres to support its students.
