Bachelor of Pharmacy

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 Australia?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 want to study pharmacy
?why you are suitable for entry into Bachelor of Pharmacy at Charles Darwin University.

Telephone interviews are offered from your supporting statement. Send the supporting statement to [email protected].