查尔斯达尔文大学

As a pharmacist, you are responsible for providing information, advice, and education on medicines and health issues, supplying medicine and medicinal products to help patients achieve optimal health care.

You also advise medical practitioners and other healthcare professionals on the interactions and side effects of medications, medication selection and dosage, and a range of other health-related issues.

During your course, you will develop your knowledge and skills in the basic sciences plus:

• pharmaceutics
• pharmaco-therapeutics and pharmacy practice
• decision-making skills to identify and manage complex therapeutic problems within a multi-disciplinary health-care team
• the ability to develop an individual health-care plan for patients with complex conditions, focusing on self-management
• practical communication skills for professional pharmacy practice
• enabling essential information transfer between pharmacists and their patients, and their colleagues, and other health-care professionals, to achieve positive health outcomes for individuals and communities according to 'best practice' standards.

You will also receive a nationally recognised Mental Health First Aid AustraliaTM certificate, and (in anticipation of expected changes in Australian regulations) trained in the administration of injections and vaccination.

This course meets the demands for Pharmacy services and research in Australia with additional focus on rural and remote practice to meet the unique and diverse needs of communities in these regions.

If you wish to strengthen your application for enrolment, we encourage you to submit an optional supporting statement. The supporting statement must be no longer than one page and should explain:

• why you would like to study pharmacy; and
• why you should be selected for entry into Bachelor of Pharmacy at Charles Darwin University

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

This course satisfies the requirements of the Australian Pharmacy Council. Eligibility for registration in Australia will be granted by the Pharmacy Board of Australia. Pharmacists registered in Australia are able to work as pharmacists in all Australian States and Territories and New Zealand.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Graduating from this course may lead to career opportunities in community, retail and hospitals pharmacies, as well as roles in government, private and non-government organisations (NGO).