James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2024

PC5516 - Extended Pharmaceutical Public Health Project

Subject Description

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. This subject allows the student to complete a research project of a publishable standard and should be completed in two semesters. The student is required to work independently with academic supervision and follow a standard research cycle to complete the project in their usual work environment. The main components of the cycle would be the identification of a suitable subject area (to be confirmed with the supervisor), establishment of aims and objectives and literature review and then the development of an appropriate methodology, implementation of project and collection of data, data analysis, write-up of project for publication and final submission.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate an ability to identify public health pharmacy practice areas where further information is required in order to further develop health service delivery
• demonstrate a capacity to critically appraise the relevant literature, to prepare a publishable literature review or meta analysis, and to develop a test research proposal
• demonstrate an ability to implement a research project in an appropriate practice environment
• demonstrate the ability to analyse data and represent the outcomes in tables, graphs and diagrams to best illustrate the findings and be able to integrate this information into a final conclusion and recommendations
• demonstrate the ability to manage large quantities of data and reference materials

Subject Assessment

• Oral > Presentation 1 - (20%) - Individual
• Written > Thesis/dissertation - (60%) - Individual
• Written > Literature review - (20%) - Individual

Note that 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.

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