This unit of study consists of three integrated streams: (1) Social Pharmacy, which is designed to provide a broad perspective of health and illness, and encourages a view of the patient as a whole person. Topics include selfmanagement and patient communication. (2) Quality Use of Medicines in primary care focusing on the provision of nonprescription medicines, which introduces and develops students' knowledge of Pharmacy Only and Pharmacist Only medicines. Skills will include information gathering, clinical decision making and provision of pharmaceutical care. Core areas covered include responding to minor ailments such as pain, cough, cold, fever, skin conditions, gastrointestinal complaints and parasitic infections. (3) Professional Writing Skills, which provides instruction and support for developing skills for academic writing and critical appraisal, as introduced in PHAR1811.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Pharmacy |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Lorraine Smith, lorraine.smith@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Lorraine Smith, lorraine.smith@sydney.edu.au |
Shweta Kumar, shweta.kumar@sydney.edu.au | |
Tina Ung, tina.ung@sydney.edu.au | |
Tutor(s) | Simmie Chung, simmie.chung@sydney.edu.au |
Samantha Lee, samantha.lee@sydney.edu.au | |
Zahra Al Ramahi, zahra.alramahi@sydney.edu.au | |
Daisy Cheung, daisy.cheung@sydney.edu.au | |
Ibrahim Jomaa, ibrahim.jomaa@sydney.edu.au | |
Jessica Pace, jessica.pace@sydney.edu.au | |
Stephen Hughes, stephen.hughes@sydney.edu.au | |
Maya Saba, maya.saba@sydney.edu.au |