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PHR1021How medicines work 1: Physical chemistry

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit provides an introduction to how drugs become medicines and explores factors that influence the absorption of drugs following oral administration. You will study the physicochemical properties of molecules that determine...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

PHR1022How medicines work 2: Pharmacokinetics

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit builds upon PHR1021 (How Medicines Work 1) to provide an overview of the processes that affect drug concentrations at target tissues in the body, including drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. These processes...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

PHR1122How medicines work 3: Pharmacology

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit builds upon PHR1031 How the body works to provide an overview of how drugs interact with their therapeutic targets to alter normal physiological processes in the body. The effects of drugs to reverse the pathophysiology...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

PHR1222 How medicines work 4: Medicinal chemistry

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit builds upon PHR1021 How medicines work 1 to provide an overview of the chemistry behind how drugs interact with their target once they have been absorbed into the bloodstream (studied in detail in PHR1122 How medicines work 3 and...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

PHR1031How the body works

UnitLevel 1|12 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will provide you with the foundational understanding and knowledge of the human body, including how cells, molecules and organs ensure proper functioning of the body. This will include studies of anatomy, physiology and...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS1011Human physiology 1: Cells to systems

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit lays a foundation of knowledge about mammalian systems and provides the relationship between pathophysiology and the rational design and use of drugs. You will be introduced to the physiological basis of disease, highlighting the...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS1012Human physiology 2: Body systems

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit builds and extends on concepts learnt in BPS1011 Human Physiology I: Cells to systems. This unit extends on a foundation of knowledge about mammalian systems and the relationship between pathophysiology and the rational design...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

BPS1021Medicinal chemistry 1: Structure

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit introduces you to the principles of molecular structure that determine the chemical properties and mechanism of action of therapeutic agents. After examining how the rules of chemical bonding and molecular shape derive from the...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS1022Medicinal chemistry 2: Reactivity and biomolecules

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will investigate the principles of molecular interactions and reactions that form the basis of biochemical processes and drug action. Building on the concepts of chemical structure and reactivity introduced in Medicinal Chemistry...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

BPS1042Pharmaceutical science in context

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit is designed to introduce you to the major fields of the applied sciences in which pharmaceutical scientists specialise. The relationships between the different disciplines and their distinct roles in drug discovery and medicine...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

BPS1031Physical chemistry 1: Equilibria and change

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit provides a basic understanding of physical chemistry and together with Physical Chemistry II (BPS1032) provides the conceptual and intellectual foundation for further studies in pharmaceutical science units in 2nd and 3rd year....

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS1032Physical chemistry 2: Solutions, surfaces and solids

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Solutions, self-assembled systems, multiphase liquid systems and the properties of solids that yield pharmaceutical solutions are key to the performance and manufacture of pharmaceutical products. This unit aims to build on Physical...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

PHR1011Professional practice 1

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit introduces you to the role of the pharmacist and health care services relating to consumers and their medicines. It introduces important aspects of human behaviour and cultural considerations, with a focus on enhancing...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

PHR1012Professional practice 2

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit builds on your understanding of the role of the pharmacist in providing healthcare services to different patient groups. You will learn the fundamentals of dispensing prescriptions and medication counselling and further develop...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

BPS1041Scientific inquiry

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

You will acquire basic skills in applying and interpreting the scientific method of inquiry, and interpreting scientific data. You will: i) evaluate scientific literature; and, ii) plan, conduct and interpret a simple scientific...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville