PC5510 - Management of Pharmaceutical Services

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Pharmacy & Molecular Sciences

Pharmaceutical Public Health is a developing specialty which seeks to influence pharmaceutical health determinants on a population basis, rather than having a focus on the individual patient. Primary areas of activity for pharmaceutical public health are in rural and remote health services, developing country health services, and in regulatory activities associated with pharmaceutical services. The broad nature of this specialty ensures that it is of relevance to community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, academic pharmacists, regulatory affairs pharmacists and to those pharmacists who are engaged in public health activities in developing countries. This subject is divided into separate units the first of which introduces the student to pharmaceutical public health. This introduction is followed by a consideration of making a rapid assessment of the pharmaceutical sector in a remote region, a State or an entire country. The topics of pharmacovigilance and pharmacoeconomics are introduced. The subject concludes with a consideration of risk and its management in pharmacuetical services. Teaching in this subject is through a problem-based-learning approach.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role of pharmaceutical public health in influencing health determinants in a range of different health services;
• Be able to apply the skills learnt in order to successfully undertake a rapid pharmaceutical sector assessment;
• Be able to integrate the results from a pharmaceutical sector assessment in order to identify priorities for development in a plan for action;
• Be able to establish a specific pharmacovigilance program at health service or country-wide levels;
• Be able to identify and manage risk in pharmaceutical service delivery.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to think laterally and be original;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 25-Aug-2011
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Murray Bailey
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Ian Heslop, Assoc. Professor Murray Bailey.
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Printed materials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (25%); assignment (15%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.