Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours
Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours
Pharmacists play a central part in collaborative health care teams. Working alongside doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, they’re essential in helping people manage their health as the medication experts. Our pharmacy degree is ideal for those who like to help people, enjoy chemistry and biology, and want to step…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Pharmacists play a central part in collaborative health care teams. Working alongside doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, they’re essential in helping people manage their health as the medication experts.
Our pharmacy degree is ideal for those who like to help people, enjoy chemistry and biology, and want to step straight into a well paying career. Extensive relationships with leading pharmacists and service providers in Tasmania and abroad inform your learning experiences, and these connections provide significant work-integrated learning opportunities throughout your studies.
We ensure you can take advantage by offering a minimum of 450 hours of professional experience placement during your studies. As a limited intake course you will also enjoy a low student/teacher ratio at all three campus locations, as well as significant practical experiences, which combine to deliver a highly supported education with significant hands-on and industry experience upon graduation. This puts you in high demand with future employers, helping you enjoy the highest median salary of pharmacy graduates in the country.
After you graduate and complete a paid internship, you can apply to register as a pharmacist in Australia. Pharmacists are vital in both large and small communities, and are found in the private and public sector, in metropolitan and rural regions around the country.
Course objectives
We provide you with a specialist education in the basic and clinical pharmaceutical sciences, enabling you to gain the skills and attitudes required for the responsible practice of pharmacy.
You will gain the skills and knowledge required to work in community pharmacies, hospitals and other parts of the health system. The degree will enable you to demonstrate the competencies required for registration as a pharmacist in Australia.
During your studies, you will develop your clinical pharmacy expertise on drugs and diseases to optimise the use of medicines across the healthcare system, learn to communicate effectively with patients and other members of the health care team, and develop the skills required to source, prepare and supply medicines accurately and efficiently.
Our pharmacy graduates are globally recognised for the quality of their clinical pharmacy skills and ability to transform pharmacy practice, going on to work in the wider community, hospitals, research facilities and even the military.
Learning Outcomes: 1 Source, prepare and supply medicines focusing on person-centred care. 2 Optimise medication management in diverse healthcare settings. 3 Apply an evidence-based and person-centred approach to pharmacy practice. 4 Analyse wellness at community and population levels, and design socially inclusive health promotion and preventive health activities. 5 Communicate and collaborate to optimise health outcomes for individuals and culturally diverse communities. 6 Design and use research for investigative and ongoing professional learning purposes. 7 Act ethically, with integrity and social responsibility, in a way that is worthy of individual and community trust.
Career outcomes: A degree in pharmacy from the University of Tasmania will open up a range of career options. These include employment in community pharmacies, hospitals, general practices and many other health settings. You may choose to pursue a career utilising your skills in other ways, such as medication management review, pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality control, research, academia, biomedical sciences, or the armed forces.
Professional Accreditation
The Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours is an externally accredited degree.
This course is accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC).
REQUIREMENTS
Admission to undergraduate courses at the University of Tasmania requires the completion of qualifications equivalent to the 12th year in Australia.
English language test scores: IELTS (Academic) – 6.0 (no individual band less than 5.5); TOEFL (iBT) – 72 (no skill below: Reading 10; Listening 9; Speaking 16; Writing 19); PTE Academic – 50 with no score lower than 42; UTAS English for Academic Purposes – EAP2 – 60% (no individual score less than 55%); Cambridge English C1 Advanced or B2 First – 169 with no less than 162 in any skill; Australian Education Management Group (AEMG) DEP EAP2 – Minimum overall score of 70% and no section score of less than 65%.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Tasmania was officially founded on 1st January 1890 and is located at Sandy Bay, Tasmania. In addition to the main campus at Sandy Bay, it also operates out of the Newnham Campus and the Cradle Coast Campus. The most popular courses offered are the environmental studies that include wilderness management, marine sciences and indigenous studies in Tasmanian literature. Other unconventional courses include agriculture development, studies on the community and population and ocean study programs. The university also comprises of a Music Conservatorium, Art school and a School of Clinical studies.
