311024 (v.1) Introduction to Pharmaceutical Practice 121

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	2.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	2 x 1 Hours Once-only
Workshop:	4 x 1 Hours Once-only
Syllabus:	Students learn to evaluate and comprehend information for a variety of resources in order to define the role of the pharmacist as a professional and the factors governing professional pharmaceutical practice. The syllabus includes an evaluation of: legislation controlling drug products - procedures for the introduction of new drug products; private and government - subsidised drug distribution systems; international regulations and their effects on the Australian drug market. Introduction to regulatory control of drugs - including the Therapeutic Goods Act; National Health Act; WA Poisons Act and Pharmacy Act. Procuration, storage, and sale of ethical goods. Defining of prescriptions - introduction to pricing of ethical drug products and prescriptions; professional feel, and mark-up. General guidelines in dispensing, introduction to labelling of ethical goods and prescriptions, counselling and ancillary labels; consumer medicines information, product information, aids to counselling. Quality use of medicines-drug use evaluation, drug usage in Australia, National Prescribing Service, therapeutic guidelines, drug policies, formularies. Introduction to health and illness as social concepts - patient-pharmacist relationships, compliance and concordance.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060500 Pharmacy (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External