BACHELOR OF PHARMACY
Why study CSU’s If you are interested in helping improve the quality of life of individuals by delivering Bachelor of optimal pharmaceutical care, then CSU’s Bachelor of Pharmacy is for you. Pharmacy? Pharmacists play an important role in providing primary health care for the community, offering advice and assistance to ensure medication is used safely and effectively. CSU’s Bachelor of Pharmacy incorporates diverse practice including community or hospital pharmacy, dispensing, medication management and health counselling to equip graduates with skills for immediate employment. Students may participate in specialist areas of study such as rural health, vaccination training and international programs. The course is studied full-time at Orange Campus over four years.
Career Pharmacy can be a mobile career with flexible hours and opportunities to work in rural opportunities and metropolitan environments as well as overseas. Working conditions are generally excellent with great starting salaries. Possessing skills relevant to both rural and metropolitan health care, graduates of CSU’s Bachelor of Pharmacy are in demand by employers, especially in regional areas across Australia. Opportunities exist for graduates in: • hospitals and community health care • community pharmacies • the pharmaceutical industry in clinical trials, research or sales and marketing • government agencies or research institutions.
Some reasons for CSU’s Bachelor of Pharmacy is You can complete vaccination You will develop your skills studying Pharmacy well respected and is accredited training or international programs in CSU’s state-of-the-art at CSU: by the Australian Pharmacy as part of your course. laboratories. Council. Leaving the city, completing my Pharmacy degree at CSU in Orange What will I learn? and then going on to practice in regional areas has driven me to enjoy regional Students study biomedical and applied sciences, develop knowledge and skills living. I have the drive to look after my local in communication and health promotion, learn treatment of minor ailments, and community in my work. I feel I am become skilled at health information management. The first three years of the course focus on developing the required basic BETTER scientific foundation knowledge, alongside subjects in various pharmaceutical sciences, and provide a solid foundation for studies in the professional PREPARED aspects of pharmacy. These subject areas include organic and medicinal than my colleagues who studied at chemistry, pharmaceutical microbiology, pharmaceutics, pharmacology and other universities to do this. Preparation, pharmacokinetics. knowledge and the drive to service regional and remote areas are what sets CSU and Workplace learning its students apart. Students complete periods of professional placement throughout the course, Tim Denham primarily in a hospital or community pharmacy. Professional placement provides CSU Bachelor of Pharmacy graduate an opportunity to work alongside a qualified pharmacist and practise applying theoretical knowledge to real problems in the practice of pharmacy. After graduation, students undertake a period of supervised training, as required of all pharmacy graduates in Australia. This period of pre-registration training is 1,824 hours and is concluded by an examination set by the Pharmacy Board of Australia. When that exam has been passed, you may register and practise pharmacy anywhere in Australia. All students must obtain the following before undertaking clinical placements: • Criminal Record Clearance About CSU • Immunisation CSU is a national university focusing • Senior First Aid Certificate on excellence in education for the professions, strategic and applied research, and flexible delivery of learning and teaching. We work in close association with industry, professions and government to ensure our courses meet and support industry needs, resulting in high graduate employment levels and For more information or to apply, visit: starting salaries. We attract more than www.csu.edu.au/courses/bachelor-of-pharmacy 38,000 students from Australia and around the world and are well-known for our innovative approach to education, offering practical, hands-on courses, 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia) supported online to provide our students +61 2 6338 6077 (callers outside Australia) with accessible, world class education. facebook.com/csufuture
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