Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy

 Program Overview

• View the full Program Outline for the Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy on the UQ Programs and Courses site

The Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy is a 48 unit program.

Traditionally the first component of the program was taught across four (4) x one week blocks per year for part-time students and eight (8) x one week blocks per year for full-time students.   The entire program has recently been re-developed to achieve more flexible delivery and application based assessment.  To achieve this, changes have been made to the structure and delivery of the program.   The amount of class attendance required in Brisbane has been reduced, allowing students to meet current work commitments, particularly those residing interstate.  Instead students will be required to join an online interactive tutorial each week.   

Our new flexible delivery is underpinned by an adult learning self-directed education model. It includes didactic components, but also requires each student to identify their own individual knowledge/skill weaknesses and then develop an education plan to enhance their learning and knowledge.  While this new mode of delivery may be quite challenging for many students, we are of the firm belief that skills developed via this mode will create lifelong self educators, which are imperative to this profession.

In the third year of the program, part-time students are required to undertake a General Pharmacy Clerkship. Full-time students undertake this in their third semester of study.

A Doctorate Research Project plus #12 units of Clinical Pharmacy Speciality electives are undertaken in the final years of the program. The research project and electives will take part-time students up to three (3) years to complete; full-time students will undertake these components over eighteen (18) months.

Students are assessed through a variety of different methods throughout the program. These methods include:

• Patient Pharmaceutical care profiles
• Clinical case presentations
• Written assignments
• Oral clinical presentations
• Examinations
• Clinical poster production and oral presentation
• Undertaking a Drug Use Evaluation
• Clinical log books
• Viva Voce examinations
• Oral teaching presentation
• Research project and theses
• Development of clinical pharmacy resources

Examinations are held in June and November each year and can be undertaken online via the internet from any location.

A variety of specialist practitioners and academics teach into the program.  Expert hospital and community pharmacists, together with medical and other health care professionals, contribute significantly to the teaching.

The majority of teaching will be undertaken at The Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE), however, teaching rooms in hospitals such as the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, will also be utilised. 

Entry Requirements and Program Rules

Please refer to the University's Program Outline for entry requirements and program rules.

Course List

The course list for the DClinPharm can also be viewed on the UQ Programs and Courses website

PHRM7010 Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy Practice (#2)
PHRM7021 Research Methods in Pharmacy (#2)
PHRM7030 Pharmacotherapeutics I (#4)
PHRM7040 Social Pharmacy (#2)
PHRM7051 Management Issues in Pharmacy (#2)
PHRM7060 Pharmacotherapeutics II (#4)
PHRM8010 General Pharmacy Clerkship (#2)
PHRM8020 Doctorate Research Project (full-time)  (#18), or
PHRM8021 Doctorate Research Project (part-time) (#18)

plus #12 units of Clinical Pharmacy Specialty Electives, consisting of either #2 or #4 unit courses from the following:

PHRM8030 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective A (#2)
PHRM8031 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective B (#2)
PHRM8032 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective C (#2)
PHRM8033 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective D (#2)
PHRM8034 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective E (#2)
PHRM8035 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective F (#2)
PHRM8040 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective G (#4)
PHRM8041 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective H (#4)
PHRM8042 Clinical Pharmacy Speciality Elective I (#4)

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