Faculty information

• Introduction
• Essential information for students
  • Faculty policies and procedures
  • Course maps and course planning
  • Contact details
• Registration as a pharmacist

Course information

• Outline of undergraduate studies
  • Courses offered in 2014
  • Courses with no further intake

Course-related policies and rules

• Government and University legislation

Australia’s leading pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences faculty, and one of the world’s best, the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences offers innovative education and delivers high impact research. It is Australia's oldest pharmacy school but also the most innovative.

The faculty is located at Monash's Parkville campus, in close proximity to Melbourne’s CBD and other leading research organisations, residential colleges and teaching hospitals in the `Parkville strip'. The Parkville campus is home to the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences which comprises the largest and most experienced group of pharmaceutical research scientists in Australia. The campus has excellent research and teaching laboratories as well as a dedicated pharmaceutical science library and state of the art teaching facilities.

The faculty has a proud record of education and research in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. It offers postgraduate coursework, professional qualifications and further education for the pharmacy profession, undergraduate, honours programs and research higher degrees.

To practice as a pharmacist in Australia, it is necessary to be registered with the Pharmacy Board of Australia. Registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia for students, interns and practicing pharmacists is via the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). For more information, see http://www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/

Student registration

Australia’s national registration and accreditation scheme began on 1 July 2010. The scheme is governed by nationally consistent legislation, the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (the national law) as in force in each State and Territory. Under the national law, the National Boards for each of the 10 health professions have the power to register students.

AHPRA will work directly with each university to register students for each academic year. It will seek lists of enrolled students from the university; students do not need to apply for registration. There are no registration fees for students. For more information, visit http://www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/Student-Registrations.aspx

Period of supervised practice (internship)

Students completing the internship year (usually taken the year after completing the four year Bachelor of Pharmacy course) must apply for provisional registration as a pharmacist. See http://www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/Internship.aspx

Monash University offers an approved pharmacy internship training program during the course of their period of supervised practice.

The pharmacy internship program is offered in course 3460 Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice (Internship), or can be undertaken as two full-fee single units.

See http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/courses/pg-coursework/pharmprac.html.

Faculty policies and procedures

All faculty policies and procedures are available at http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/undergrad/policy/index.html.

Course maps and course planning

Bachelor of Pharmacy course maps and course planning information are available at http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/undergrad/courses/bpharm.html.

Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science course maps and course planning information are available at http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/undergrad/courses/bpharmsci.html.

Links to information about courses and teaching, enrolment, transition, and support services are available at  http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/undergrad.

Contact details

Contact details for current students are available http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/contact-pharm-current-students.html.

NOTE: The course details provided in in the entries below are for those students who began their studies in 2013 - students who commenced their studies prior to this date should consult the Handbook edition for the year in which they started their course. Archived Handbooks are available at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks.

Single degrees

• 2894 Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science
• 2628 Bachelor of Pharmacy
• 3478 Bachelor of Pharmacy (Scholars Program)

Double degrees

• 3288 Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science
• 2630 Bachelor of Pharmacy / Bachelor of Commerce

Honours degrees

• 3469 Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science Advanced with Honours
• 2631 Honours degree of Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science

Courses with no further intake

Current students enrolled in the following degrees should refer to the handbook entry for the year in which they commenced their course. Archived Handbooks are available at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks:

• 2628 Bachelor of Pharmacy (students who commenced pre-2008)
• 2894 Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science (students who commenced pre-2012)
• 2893 Bachelor of Formulation Science
• 3453 Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry
• 3455 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Formulation Science
• 3463 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry