The Victorian College of Pharmacy, a faculty of Monash University since 1992, has a proud record of education and research in the pharmaceutical sciences dating back to its establishment in 1881. It is one of the leading schools of pharmacy in Australia, offering professional qualifications and further education for the pharmacy profession, undergraduate programs in formulation science and medicinal chemistry, and research higher degrees.
The college is located on its own campus at Parkville, where it benefits
from proximity to other leading research organisations, residential colleges
and teaching hospitals in the `Parkville strip'. It shares its premises with
the Pharmacy Board of Victoria and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
(Victorian Branch) Ltd. The Parkville campus comprises excellent laboratory
facilities, lecture rooms, seminar rooms, library, computer laboratory and
other student amenities. The construction of a fourth building is proposed in
order to accommodate recent growth in undergraduate numbers and research
activity.
There are four departments within the college: Pharmaceutics, Pharmacy
Practice, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology, each
headed by internationally recognised research professors. The administration is
managed through the Office of the Dean and selection and course inquiries
should be directed to the faculty office.
A degree in pharmacy and subsequent registration as a pharmacist may lead to a
career in the traditional areas of pharmacy practice (community, hospitals,
industry). It may also lead to a rewarding research career in such areas as
drug design and development, tissue repair and wound healing, drug addiction
pharmacology or skin pharmacology.
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