PC3004:03
Professional Pharmacy Practice 2
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
36 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 36 hours practicals. Semester 1.
Available to students enrolled in level 3 of the Bachelor of Pharmacy.
Staff: Dr R Rasiah, Assoc. Professor B Glass, Dr G Grant, Dr M Ridd and invited lecturers.
This subject will further develop the students understanding of aspects of professional pharmacy practice including communication, counselling skills, dispensing, legal and ethical issues and professional standards. An emphasis will be placed on how this applies to cross cultural communication, rural and remote practice and the extended role of other health professionals in these communities. The roles of relevant professional pharmacy organisations and bodies and their relevance to contemporary pharmacy practice will be discussed
The student will also extend their knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutics of solid pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate the basic dispensing functions of a pharmacist including eliciting, reviewing and assessing patient history, maintaining records and counselling patients to encourage compliance;
- educate and counsel patients with the appropriate use of ‘Pharmacy’ and ‘Pharmacist Only’ medications;
- demonstrate an ability to retrieve, interpret and evaluate information;
- describe, interpret and apply accepted standards of practice and codes of ethics especially the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation, Pharmacy Act and Regulations and the National Health Act and Regulations;
- discuss the concepts and application of pharmacoeconomics, including rural areas;
- describe the pharmaceutics of solid pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms;
- outline the principles of reaction kinetics and drug stability, including the importance of cold chain in rural and remote areas;
- demonstrate an awareness of the fundamental operation of community and hospital pharmacy practice.
Assessment by a three-hour written examination (50%); Objective Subjective Clinical Examination (OSCE) (20% – Semester 1), assignment (10%); clinical pharmacy dispensing examination (20% – 5% Semester 1 and 15% Semester 2). The OSCE will consist of three workstations (10 minutes each) each assessed by two examiners and two panels (15 minutes each) assessed by at least two examiners. All students will be questioned by each of the panels. This examination will cover all components of the Pharmacy course. A satisfactory performance in all aspects of the subject is required. This is defined as at least 60% in the dispensing practical examination and all laboratory reports and at least 50% for all other sections. Attendance at practicals is compulsory.