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46 results in the 2027 handbookPharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesSemester 2
  1. PHR3042Acute care: Inquiry cases

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    UnitLevel 312 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Acute care is where a patient receives active treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. This unit will provide you with the knowledge and skills required for the...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  2. PHR4142Acute care: Inquiry cases

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    UnitLevel 412 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Acute care is where a patient receives active treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. This unit will provide you with the knowledge and skills required for the...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  3. BPS3042Advanced experimental spectroscopy

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit will develop advanced concepts in spectroscopy and introduce experimental approaches to the characterisation and qualitative analysis of chemical samples. A key focus of the unit is using spectroscopic data to establish the...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  4. BPS2032Analytical method development

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit will take you through the process of systematic analytical method development. Using techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), you will work in teams to...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  5. BPS3012Applied pharmaceutical science: From concept to market

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    The aim of this unit is to provide a capstone experience to students studying the B Pharm Sci. In the unit, you will undertake activities that reflect the broad role of the pharmaceutical sciences in contemporary discovery and development,...

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  6. BPS3082Applied pharmacokinetics, dynamics and product development

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit integrates pharmacokinetics (PK) of drugs and product development, aiming to provide a full picture of how PK evaluation may impact formulation design and manufacture for medicines. 1.Pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  7. BPS3021Biotechnology

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit introduces you to the principles of biotechnology and the application of these principles to pharmaceutical product development. The unit also aims to further develop your skills in information literacy and scientific writing....

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  8. PHR2142Comprehensive care: Cardiovascular

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit provides the knowledge and skills required for the diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients with cardiovascular conditions. Specifically, the unit will cover cardiovascular diseases and disorders such as hypertension,...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  9. PHR2042Comprehensive care: Endocrinology and renal

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit provides the knowledge and skills required for the diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients with various endocrine and renal conditions. Specifically, the unit will cover endocrine diseases and disorders/conditions such...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  10. BPS2042Drug development

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit will take you through the process of developing a drug candidate into a registered pharmaceutical product. This encompasses: pre-clinical development, including drug formulation based on the pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  11. BPS2022Drug discovery and design

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit will educate you on different approaches in drug discovery and design, using the typical pipeline of drug discovery and development as a foundation for your understanding. You will begin by examining how drug discovery and...

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  12. MPS5204Drug discovery and development: The next step

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    UnitLevel 56 credit pointsPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    This unit takes you on a journey into real-life drug development challenges. The unit will utilise the target product profile (TPP) as the framework for exploring and understanding the challenges of translating a potential drug discovered...

    Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

  13. MPS5201Drug stories: Lessons from the past and now

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    UnitLevel 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...

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  14. MPS5203Experimental investigations: Learning from the lab

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    UnitLevel 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

  15. GMD5003Financial and data management in global medicines development

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    UnitLevel 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...

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  16. PHR5162Foundation practice 2

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    UnitLevel 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...

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  17. MPS5202From ideas to medicines: Investigator perspectives

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    UnitLevel 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

  18. GMD5005Global medicines development: Emerging topics in regulatory science

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    UnitLevel 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

  19. PHR1022How medicines work 2: Pharmacokinetics

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    UnitLevel 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

  20. PHR1122How medicines work 3: Pharmacology

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    UnitLevel 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