Course type

Bachelor Degree (AQF Level 7)

Division

Division of Tropical Health and Medicine

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 3a – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Students also need to take note that in accordance with the National Registration Board’s requirement, they must hold a valid IELTS (academic module) minimum overall score of 7.5 with a minimum of 7 in each of the four components within 2 years prior to applying for registration upon graduation.

Post admission requirements

This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, a Suitability to Work with Children Card, a federal police check and/or other conditions that students must comply with. Students must complete all professional experience placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of these requirements in order to stay admitted in the course.

You will find your course requirements here:

https://www.jcu.edu.au/professional-experience-placement/preparation-checklists

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, graduates will be able to:

• Integrate understanding of professional knowledge, competencies, behaviours, responsibilities and ethics in a health provision model of pharmacy practice that is appropriate in rural, remote, Indigenous and tropical contexts

• Retrieve, synthesise, critically evaluate and apply evidence in pharmacy practice

• Obtain, interpret and evaluate patient and clinical data to assess individual and population health status and, where necessary, formulate, implement and monitor management plans, in consultation with patients and communities

• Promote and optimise the health and welfare of individuals and populations

• Communicate clearly and coherently through well-developed English language and numeracy proficiency, appropriate for entry into the pharmacy workforce

• Deliver and facilitate safe and effective collaborative patient-centred health outcomes, within a clearly defined and accepted scope of pharmacy practice

• Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes to plan ongoing professional development and foster a commitment to lifelong learning.

Townsville

Maximum time to complete

6 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Clinical placement/professional practice:

This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense. (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements).

Further information about placements can be found at Enrolment Policy – Coursework Students

Professional accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

Not applicable

Maximum allowed

24 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 11 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Approved abbreviation

BPharm

Exit with lesser award

Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies.

Students who have completed 72 credit points of their professional course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Life Sciences.

Eligibility

Entry to in-course Honours

At the start of level 3 of the course the College Dean will invite applications from students

• Normally students will have obtained a GPA of 6 (Distinction or better) for the subjects completed for levels 1 and 2 of the course

• A quota may be imposed on the number of students accepted for entry to the honours course depending on the availability of supervisors

Graduate entry to Honours

Successful completion of the pass degree in Pharmacy, within the previous three years

• Normally students will have achieved a GPA of not less than 5.0 calculated over the four levels of the pass degree

• Students may be required to undertake work additional to the pass degree before commencing honours