Master of Clinical Pharmacy

Program Overview

The Master of Clinical Pharmacy is a 24 unit program and can be completed in a minimum of 3 years part-time or 18 months full-time.  Please refer to the Study Schedules for further information. 

Traditionally 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 final year of the masters program, part-time students are required to undertake a General Pharmacy Clerkship and Masters Research Project. Full-time students undertake these two components in the final six (6) months of their program.

Students are assessed through a variety of different methods throughout the year. 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
  • Oral teaching presentation
  • Oral clinical viva and
  • Research project and theses

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.

International students please note that completion of the Master of Clinical Pharmacy does not enable you to register as a pharmacist in Australia.

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 MClinPharm can also be viewed on the UQ Programs and Courses site

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)
PHRM7070 Masters Research Project (full-time) (#6), OR
PHRM7071 Masters Research Project (part-time commencing Sem 1) (#6), OR
PHRM7072 Masters Research Project (part-time commencing Sem 2) (#6)
PHRM8010 General Pharmacy Clerkship (#2)

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