Master of Pharmaceutical Science
Master of Pharmaceutical Science
The Master of Pharmaceutical Science course is a 2-year course offered in Hobart and is taught over four semesters. Teaching is primarily based on hands-on training through individualised laboratory-based interactive sessions. The overarching goal of the course is to equip you with basic and advanced laboratory and analytical skills commonly…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Master of Pharmaceutical Science course is a 2-year course offered in Hobart and is taught over four semesters.
Teaching is primarily based on hands-on training through individualised laboratory-based interactive sessions. The overarching goal of the course is to equip you with basic and advanced laboratory and analytical skills commonly utilised within pharmaceutical industries and research laboratories. Our approach prepares you for real word employment environments in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. In particular, the emphasis is on testing practical knowledge and abilities. Practical knowledge will, for example, be developed by exposure to real-world problems and data sets to be analysed and interpreted to identify the reliability of results and their limitations. Similarly, the testing of practical abilities is designed to provide you as well as potential employers, with the confidence that you come equipped with skills that translate into minimal onboarding times for laboratory-based job opportunities.
Course objectives
The learning and teaching approach is based on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. You will develop such skills through hands-on laboratory-based interactive sessions. The basic and advanced laboratory techniques you will learn are commonly and widely used in the pharmaceutical industry and other research institutions worldwide. The nature of the course and our teaching philosophy compel us to provide a high staff-to-student ratio, allowing you and the staff to cultivate trust, understanding, and much-needed academic relationships with each other.
Three distinctive features of the course are the development of self-directed learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. These transferrable skills will allow you to be employed in a wide range of environments within the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries as well as diagnostic and research laboratories. The course will help you to find meaningful pursuits of excellence by pairing your interest areas with research and real-world problems to ensure your training, skills, and methodology will be applied to answer complex real-life pharmaceutical and clinical questions for people within your community.
Learning Outcomes
1 Conduct pharmaceutical analyses using relevant analytical, chromatographic, cell-culture and immunohistology techniques.
2 Critically review and analyse the existing literature in the field of pharmaceutical science.
3 Conduct scholarly research into complex pharmaceutical and clinical questions.
4 Communicate research findings to specialist and non-specialist audiences using a range of media.
Career outcomes
Graduates may be employed in a variety of areas within the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries in the manufacturing, research, quality control and marketing of pharmaceuticals. Other organisations and institutions where employment could be expected include medical research institutes, hospitals and associated biomedical research laboratories, universities, government research laboratories, and government regulatory agencies. The course can be articulated with the School’s Research Higher Degree programs (Master of Pharmacy by Research and PhD) in subsequent years.
REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must have a minimum of a health-based (e.g., Pharmacy, Biomedical, Nursing, Laboratory Medicine, Dentistry, Medicine, Biology, Microbiology) or science-based (e.g., Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology) AQF7 Bachelor degree or equivalent. A credit average or higher is required. Applicants below credit average will be considered based on a combination of academic record and relevant work experience after graduation.
IELTS 6.5 (no individual band less than 6.0)
TOEFL (iBT) 88 (no skill below: Reading 16; Listening 16; Speaking 18; Writing 22)
PTE Academic 58 with no score lower than 50
UTAS Access-English Level 7 – 65% (no individual score less than 60%)
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.
