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MPS5201Drug stories: Lessons from the past and now
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit immerses you into real-life challenges and triumphs associated with drug discovery, using case studies of medicines from the nineteenth century through to COVID-19 vaccines. Working in groups and individually, you will develop a...
Semester 2MalaysiaParkville
MPS5203Experimental investigations: Learning from the lab
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit gives you direct experience of contemporary laboratory-based research in pharmaceutical science. You will observe and participate in a range of relevant activities sampling the gamut of skills required to be a successful and...
Semester 2MalaysiaParkville
GMD5003Financial and data management in global medicines development
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit prepares you to apply financial, analytical, and strategic principles across the full lifecycle of global medicines development. You will build skills in financial modeling, Excel, and generative AI; design and measure data...
Semester 2Parkville
PHR5161Foundation practice 1
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Foundation Practice 1 is undertaken during a period of supervised practice in the pharmacy internship year. The internship year is designed to provide intern pharmacists the opportunity to develop competence to practice as independent...
Semester 1Parkville
PHR5162Foundation practice 2
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Foundation Practice 2 is undertaken during a period of supervised practice in the pharmacy internship year. The internship year is designed to provide intern pharmacists the opportunity to develop competence to practice as independent...
Semester 2Parkville
MPS5202From ideas to medicines: Investigator perspectives
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit takes you into the minds of leading researchers in the pharmaceutical sciences to unravel the thinking that goes into transforming an idea into a clinically useful drug. From a series of recorded and live interviews and Q&A...
Semester 2MalaysiaParkville
PGC5116Geriatric disease state management
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Upon completing this unit, you will develop specialist knowledge and skills in the management of common medical syndromes affecting older people. The unit will focus on pharmacotherapeutics, medication-related problems and the role of...
Semester 1Parkville
GMD5002Global leadership in the pharmaceutical sciences
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit has been designed to stimulate your thinking about leadership within the pharmaceutical sciences and to foster a sense of responsibility for your personal and professional development. The unit will expose you to various...
Semester 1Parkville
GMD5005Global medicines development: Emerging topics in regulatory science
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This foundational pharmaceutical science course will focus on global regulatory science priorities related to innovation in pharmaceutical product development. You will learn about current research aimed at modernizing toxicology,...
Semester 2Parkville
GMD5001Global medicines development: Fundamentals of regulatory affairs
No reviews yetUnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This foundational pharmaceutical science unit will provide an overview of regulatory affairs with a focus on global pharmaceutical product development. You will learn about medical product regulation in major international markets...
Semester 1Parkville
P4006Graduate Certificate of Pharmacist Prescribing
No reviews yetCourseGraduate CertificatePostgraduate24 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
P4001Graduate Certificate of Pharmacy Practice
No reviews yetCourseGraduate CertificatePostgraduate24 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This course provides pharmacy interns the opportunity to complete an intern training program accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council and to credit this towards a postgraduate qualification. In addition to the intern training program...
PHR1021How medicines work 1: Physical chemistry
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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
PHR2021How medicines work 5: Drug delivery
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This unit will provide you with a detailed understanding of the specific biopharmaceutical and formulation considerations for various drug delivery routes, including intravenous, subcutaneous, intramuscular, oral, transdermal, pulmonary,...
Semester 1MalaysiaParkville
PHR1031How the body works
No reviews yetUnitLevel 112 credit pointsPharmacy 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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsPharmacy 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